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Missing details in Azure Activity Logs – MICROSOFT.SECURITYINSIGHTS/ENTITIES/ACTION
The Azure Activity Logs are crucial for tracking access and actions within Sentinel. However, I’m encountering a significant lack of documentation and clarity regarding some specific operation types.
Resources consulted:
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/audit-sentinel-data
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/securityinsights/entities?view=rest-securityinsights-2024-01-01-preview
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/securityinsights/operations/list?view=rest-securityinsights-2024-09-01&tabs=HTTP
My issue:
I observed unauthorized activity on our Sentinel workspace. The Azure Activity Logs clearly indicate the user involved, the resource, and the operation type:
"MICROSOFT.SECURITYINSIGHTS/ENTITIES/ACTION"
But that’s it.
No detail about what the action was, what entity it targeted, or how it was triggered. This makes auditing extremely difficult.
It's clear the person was in Sentinel and perform an activity through it, from search, KQL, logs to find an entity from a KQL query. But, that's all...
Strangely, this operation is not even listed in the official Sentinel Operations documentation linked above.
My question:
Has anyone encountered this and found a way to interpret this operation type properly?
Any insight into how to retrieve more meaningful details (action context, target entity, etc.) from these events would be greatly appreciated.
2 Replies
- AndrewBlumhardt
Microsoft
I recommend using Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT. Both can be very useful when researching obscure or legacy topics. I suspect these entries are because a Sentinel user interacted with an entity profile in some way. You might also try speaking with a listed user and trying to recreate the activity.
- Deleted
Thanks. Unfortunately, I’ve already completed all of these steps, but the data is still strangely missing.
I submitted a suggestion in a pull request to Microsoft about it. One interesting thing is that I can see the same activities, but I’m not able to reproduce them manually. I can see all other types of operations triggered by manual actions—just not these ones. It seems like they might be generated automatically…