# Azure/Azure-Sentinel

Cloud-native SIEM for intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise.

Repository: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/azure-sentinel
Homepage: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-sentinel/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: sample-code, cybersecurity
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:39:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2938, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6076, forks 3790 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:34.822972+00:00)

## What it is
The official community repository for Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-native SIEM, containing out-of-the-box detections, hunting queries, workbooks, playbooks, and sample code. It provides security analytics content for threat detection and hunting across Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft 365 Defender environments.

## Use cases
- find hunting queries for threat detection in Microsoft Sentinel
- get out-of-the-box detection rules for my SOC
- build KQL queries for Microsoft 365 Defender advanced hunting
- automate incident response with Sentinel playbooks
- contribute security analytics content to a SIEM
- set up workbooks for security monitoring dashboards

## When to choose
- you use Microsoft Sentinel or Microsoft 365 Defender and need ready-made detection and hunting content
- you want community-contributed playbooks, workbooks, and queries for Azure security operations
- you are building a SOC on Azure and want to accelerate onboarding

## When to avoid
- you need a standalone open-source SIEM rather than content for Microsoft's paid cloud SIEM
- your environment is not on Azure or Microsoft 365
- you want a self-hosted SIEM like Wazuh or Elastic Security

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: security, monitoring, alerting, analytics, search-engine
- domain: security, cloud-computing, monitoring
- platform: cloud, self-hosted, python
- tags: siem, soc, threat-hunting, microsoft-sentinel, detection-rules, kql, playbooks, soar, microsoft-365-defender, security-content, devops

## Member repositories
- Azure/Azure-Sentinel (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:34.822972+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:48:21.155282+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:34.822972+00:00, sha f09a82678868)
  - homepage: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-sentinel/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:41.118363+00:00, sha 528d0ea8d7b7)
  - site_page: https://learn.microsoft.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:41.125400+00:00, sha f29800be2b9a)
  - site_page: https://www.microsoft.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:41.132102+00:00, sha 2d2954f13574)
  - site_page: https://choice.microsoft.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:41.134016+00:00, sha 2db73202bb74)
  - site_page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/security/pricing-overview (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:41.121567+00:00, sha 3af8533684b6)
  - site_page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-in/security (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:41.123593+00:00, sha 0050f9841ee4)
  - site_page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/security/pricing/microsoft-sentinel (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:41.126911+00:00, sha 31d0e485bb15)
  - site_page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/security/microsoft-defender-pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:41.128685+00:00, sha 109c8108aa4a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.