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MsSenseS.exe high CPU usage
Good Afternoon - We have a few servers in Azure that have extremely high CPU usage due to the "MsSenseS.exe" process. Is there anything that can be done to alleviate this? Seems like this process is ...
If you look at the full command line for the MSSense process, you can see that it is the core network traffic inspection process. This is where all the Zeeke integrations are implemented. So it makes sense that it will use *some* CPU continuously, it is examining network traffic for things like named pipes, LDAP queries, etc. that all contribute to detections in MDE.
You can reduce the CPU usage somewhat by turning off device discovery completely. This also works by inspection of network traffic, so also contributes to CPU usage by the process.
But you can't reduce it too much beyond that since it is doing part of the core function of MDE.
You can reduce the CPU usage somewhat by turning off device discovery completely. This also works by inspection of network traffic, so also contributes to CPU usage by the process.
But you can't reduce it too much beyond that since it is doing part of the core function of MDE.