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Cribl o Logstash vs AMA CEF: What’s the Best Choice for Ingesting Firewall Logs?
Hi everyone, what are the advantages of using Cribl or Logstash over a CEF log collector via AMA for ingesting firewall logs such as Palo Alto for example into Microsoft Sentinel? In a typical scenario, how would you configure the ingestion to optimize performance, scalability, and cost? What do you think? Let’s discuss and share experiences!
AMPLS Restrictions Preventing Outbound API Calls in Logic Apps – Any Workarounds?
Hi everyone, I’m encountering an issue where Azure Monitor Private Link Scope (AMPLS) restrictions are preventing Azure Logic Apps from making any outbound API calls, even to Microsoft-owned outbound IP addresses. One specific problem is that when running KQL queries inside a Logic App, the Azure Monitor connector fails because it attempts to access Microsoft outbound IPs, which are blocked by AMPLS restrictions. Since this is happening within Logic Apps itself, I don’t have direct control over these outbound calls. Has anyone found a workaround to allow Logic Apps to function correctly while keeping AMPLS in place? Would Private Endpoints, VNET Integration, or any other configuration help resolve this? Any insights or solutions would be greatly appreciated!AMPLS Restrictions Preventing Outbound API Calls in Logic Apps – Any Workarounds?
Hi everyone, I’m encountering an issue where Azure Monitor Private Link Scope (AMPLS) restrictions are preventing Azure Logic Apps from making any outbound API calls, even to Microsoft-owned outbound IP addresses. One specific problem is that when running KQL queries inside a Logic App, the Azure Monitor connector fails because it attempts to access Microsoft outbound IPs, which are blocked by AMPLS restrictions. Since this is happening within Logic Apps itself, I don’t have direct control over these outbound calls. Has anyone found a workaround to allow Logic Apps to function correctly while keeping AMPLS in place? Would Private Endpoints, VNET Integration, or any other configuration help resolve this? Any insights or solutions would be greatly appreciated!
Fetching alerts from Sentinel using logic apps
Hello everyone, I have a requirement to archive alerts from sentinel. To do that I need to do the following: Retrieve the alerts from Sentinel Send the data to an external file share As a solution, I decided to proceed with using logic apps where I will be running a script to automate this process. My questions are the following: -> Which API endpoints in sentinel are relevant to retrieve alerts or to run kql queries to get the needed data. -> I know that I will need some sort of permissions to interact with the API endpoint. What type of service account inside azure should I create and what permissions should I provision to it ? -> Is there any existing examples of logic apps interacting with ms sentinel ? That would be helpful for me as I am new to Azure. Any help is much appreciated !
Questions on Implementing Forced Password Resets Using Sentinel Playbooks
Hello! I am working on automating a forced password reset at the next login using Sentinel playbooks. I have a couple of questions and would love some help with this: How can I set this up so that users are required to reset their passwords upon their next login? I've noticed there isn't much information available online about this process. Are there alternative methods or suggestions for achieving this? Why might this approach not be commonly recommended, and are there any additional insights that could be helpful? Thank you!Create a report that contains Alerts and raw events
Hello, is there a way to autoamtically create a report in sentinel that contains security incidents and alerts as well as the raw events that triggered these alerts and be able to send it somewhere for archival purposes? Any help is much appreciated !
Help Ingesting PingID Logs into Microsoft Sentinel
Hello, Microsoft Sentinel has a Data Connector for PingFederate, however this does not capture other PingIdentity products. Namely, PingID logs. Making this post asking if there are any ways to best implement ingesting PingID logs into Sentinel, as I am unable to find any documentation for PingIdentity or Sentinel that would assist me in coming up with a solution. Thank you for all comments and ideas.KQL to extract URL from TI Feeds
Hello, I need some help to extract a specific field (URL) from URL Haus Database. Example "3430907","2025-02-07 11:02:07","http://chmod0777kk.com/main","online","2025-02-07 11:02:07","malware_download","elf","https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/url/3430907/","anonymous" Needed output http://chmod0777kk.com/main Regards, HASentinel and Amazon Web Services S3 WAF
Hello, I'm using Sentinel to fetch AWS WAF logs using the new collector Amazon Web Services S3 WAF . I setup a first collection using the ARN role and SQS Queue (Francfort Region). arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXXX:role/OIDC_MicrosoftSentinel https://sqs.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/XXXXXXX/sqs-aws-cloudwatch-sentinel I then add new collection using ARN role and SQS Queue (Francfort Region). arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXXX:role/OIDC_MicrosoftSentinel https://sqs.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/XXXXXXX/sqs-aws-cloudwatch-sentinel Adding the second collection erase the first one !! Is it a bug ?? Regards, HACannot stop CEF duplication to syslog when both processed by same Linux VM
We have a situation where we are sending CEF records from FortiGate firewall to Microsoft Sentinel via Common Event Format (CEF) via AMA Data connector and we also use Syslog via AMA Data connector (both on the same Ubuntu Linux VM using rsyslog) and result is that we are getting duplicates of the CEF records in the syslog. I've read a lot of articles about the duplication and possible ways to fix however I've had not success. My most recent attempt is to create a file /etc/rsyslog.d/05-filter-CEF.conf with the following entries: if ($programname == "CEF") then @@127.0.0.1:28330 & stop Unfortunately we still get duplicates. One article I read said to use @@127.0.0.1:25226 however then we don't get CEF records in a CommonSecurityLog or Syslog. Is there anyone that can help?Fetch security events with their underlying log entries
Hello, I am trying to extract all the alerts generated by sentinel including the events that triggered that alert. I have the following query: SecurityIncident | summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by IncidentName | where ClassificationComment !has "Automatically closed, as the incident is not in scope for monitoring." | where CreatedTime >= startofday(ago(1d)) and CreatedTime < startofday(now()) | sort by CreatedTime | mv-expand AlertIds | extend AlertId = tostring(AlertIds) | join (SecurityAlert | where StartTime >= startofday(ago(30d)) and StartTime < startofday(now()) | summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by SystemAlertId | project-rename AlertId = SystemAlertId) on AlertId Is this enough to achieve what I need or is there any changes that needs to be made ?Juniper SRX 340 logs not read by rsyslog
I have configured Juniper SRX 340 Junos logs to be forwarded to a centralized syslog server before reaching Microsoft Sentinel. I can see the Juniper logs on the syslog server while doing a TCPDUMP but, the same logs are not ready by rsyslog. The same syslog server is also receiving the logs from Cisco ASA. The rsyslog is able to read the ASA logs with no issues and further forward them to Sentinel through AMA agent. I don't have any filters applied in rsyslog.conf file and I'm capturing everything (*.*) all syslog facility and severity to a log file but, still the Juniper logs are not recognized by rsyslog. Please help on resolving this issue
Sentinel Data Connector for Azure Virtual Desktop
Hello, I have a customer planning to deploy Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). They are currently using Microsoft Sentinel for their SecOps. However, there is no AVD Data Connector available. The customer is not interested in building a custom data connector. Does anyone know if there are plans to add a data connector for AVD in the near future? Thanks.
How to remove string quotes and other things from the parsed syslog message
Hello Sentinel Community, We are ingesting Azure database for Postgresql logs into the log analytical workspace and tried to retrieve the values from the Postgresql log Message coulumn. However, we are getting the values in double quotes and comma from the retrieved values. Below is the sample Pstgresql Message log: Message: 2025-01-22 09:53:35 UTC-6790c01f.259e-FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "10.150.48.4", user "email address removed for privacy reasons", database "prodxxxx0424", no encryption We used below KQL query and parse kind (mentione below) to get the values of host, user, and database but we got the values like below with double quotes and comma. How to get the values without double quotes. AzureDiagnostics | where Category == "PostgreSQLLogs" | where errorLevel_s == "FATAL" | where Message contains "no pg_hba.conf entry" | parse kind=relaxed Message with * "host" Source_IP "user" UserName "database" DatabaseName Received Values: Thanks, Yugandhar.Sentinel Integration with Teams: This bot is disabled
Hello, I've integrated Sentinel to sent an Adaptive card (automation playbook template) to Teams every time an incident is triggered. After receiving the event in Teams, if I try to click on "Submit Response" I got the following message in teams 'This bot is disabled. Contact your IT admin for more information. See attached Screenshot Any idea ?? Regards, HAUsing a Bicep template to update Configuration Settings in Microsoft Sentinel
I have started using BICEP and have successfully defined templates to create a resource group, log analytics workspace and an instance of Microsoft Sentinel. I now need guidance on updating an existing log analytics workspace instance with the Entity Behaviour and UEBA services. Is using existing property with the resource definition the best approach? Advice/Guidance is appreciated. Please see the image of the BICEP template below. JasonBug in stand-alone MS Sentinel MITRE tactics
I setup a new Analytic rule where I had selected multiple tactics/techniques combinations. When I create an incident from that rule, only one of the tactics/techniques actually show up in the stand-alone MS Sentinel UI as well as in the SecurityIncident table. It isn't even the first one I selected; it is the last one. I did double check the Analytic rule and all the tactics/techniques are selected. If I look at the incident using the MS Sentinel REST API, it does show that all the tactics/techniques are there as well as if I look in the M365 portal (I have my MS Sentinel instance linked). Heck, even the Graph Query will show them all (after expanding the incident to show the alerts as well). Has anyone noticed this recently? Is it a bug or another new "feature"?Can we deploy Bicep through Sentinel repo
Hi there, Im new here, but 😅.... With the problem statement being "Deploying and managing sentinel infrastructure through git repository. I had looked into Sentinel Repository feature which is still in Preview. With added limitations of not being able to deploy watchlists or custom log analytical functions ( custom parsers ). There is also a limitation of deploying only ARM content My guess would be that the product folks at msft are working on this 😋 My hypothesized (just started the rnd, as of writing this) options would be to Fully go above and beyond with Bicep; Create bicep deployment files for both the rules as well as their dependencies like LAW functions, watchlists and the whole nine yards. Need to write pipelines for the deployment. The CI/CD would also need extra work to implement Hit that sweet spot; Deploy the currently supported resources using sentinel repo and write a pipeline to deploy the watchlists using Bicep. But not sure if this will be relevant to solutions to clients. When the whole shtick is that we are updating now so we dont have to later. Go back to the dark ages: Stick to the currently supported sentinel content through ARM & repo. And deploy the watchlists and dependencies using GUI 🙃 I will soon confirm the first two methods, but may take some time. As you know, I may or may not be new to sentinel...or devops.. But wanted to kick off the conversation, to see how close to being utterly wrong I am. 😎 Thanks, mal_secWhy maximum supported DataFlow count is 10 in DCR?
Is there any technical reason why a DCR can support maximum 10 dataflows? There are already 10 ASim tables. If we want to combine standard tables with ASim tables in one DCR, that is currently not possible. It makes the process complicated. Also is that the same reason why designated ASim table count is currently 10? :)
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