Commonly used Microsoft Sentinel workbooks

• Applies to:

  Microsoft Sentinel in the Azure portal and the Microsoft Defender portal

This article lists the most commonly used Microsoft Sentinel workbooks. Install the solution or standalone item that contains the workbook from the Content hub in Microsoft Sentinel. Get the workbook from the Content hub by selecting Manage on the solution or standalone item. Or, in Microsoft Sentinel under Threat Management, go to Workbooks and search for the workbook you want to use. For more information, see Visualize and monitor your data.

We recommend you deploy any workbooks associated with the data you ingest into Microsoft Sentinel. Workbooks allow for broader monitoring and investigating based on your collected data. For more information, see Microsoft Sentinel data connectors and Discover and manage Microsoft Sentinel out-of-the-box content.

Commonly used workbooks

The following table includes workbooks we recommend and the solution or standalone item from the Content hub that contains the workbook.

Workbook name	Description	Content hub title
Analytics Health & Audit	Provides visibility on the health and audit of your analytics rules. Find out whether an analytics rule is running as expected and get a list of changes made to an analytic rule. For more information, see Monitor the health and audit the integrity of your analytics rules.	Analytics Health & Audit
Azure Activity	Provides extensive insight into your organization's Azure activity by analyzing and correlating all user operations and events. For more information, see Auditing with Azure Activity logs.	Azure Activity
Azure Security Benchmark	Provides visibility for the security posture of cloud workloads. View log queries, Azure resource graph, and policies aligned to Azure Security Benchmark controls across Microsoft security offerings, Azure, Microsoft 365, 3rd party, on-premises, and multicloud workloads. For more information, see our TechCommunity blog.	Azure Security Benchmark
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)	Provides a way to view log queries aligned to CMMC controls across the Microsoft portfolio, including Microsoft security offerings, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Intune, Azure Virtual Desktop, and more. For more information, see our TechCommunity blog.	Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0
Data collection health monitoring	Provides insights into your workspace's data ingestion status, such as ingestion size, latency, and number of logs per source. Monitors and detect anomalies to help you determine your workspaces data collection health. For more information, see Monitor the health of your data connectors with this Microsoft Sentinel workbook.	Data collection health monitoring
Event Analyzer	Explore, audit, and speed up Windows Event Log analysis. Includes all event details and attributes, such as security, application, system, setup, directory service, DNS, and more.	Windows Security Events
Identity & Access	Provides insight into identity and access operations by collecting and analyzing security logs, using the audit and sign-in logs to gather insights into use of Microsoft products.	Windows Security Events
Incident Overview	Designed to help with triage and investigation by providing in-depth information about an incident, including general information, entity data, triage time, mitigation time, and comments. For more information, see The Toolkit for Data-Driven SOCs.	SOC Handbook
Investigation Insights	Provides analysts with insight into incident, bookmark, and entity data. Common queries and detailed visualizations can help analysts investigate suspicious activities.	SOC Handbook
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps - discovery logs	Provides details about the cloud apps that are used in your organization, and insights from usage trends and drill-down data for specific users and applications. For more information, see Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps connector for Microsoft Sentinel.	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Microsoft Entra Audit Logs	Uses the audit logs to gather insights around Microsoft Entra ID scenarios. Learn about user operations, including password and group management, device activities, and top active users and apps. For more information, see Quickstart: Get started with Microsoft Sentinel.	Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra Sign-in logs	Provides insights to sign-in operations, such as user sign-ins and locations, email addresses, and IP addresses of your users, failed activities, and the errors that triggered the failures.	Microsoft Entra ID
MITRE ATT&CK Workbook	Provides details about MITRE ATT&CK coverage for Microsoft Sentinel.	SOC Handbook
Office 365	Provides insights into Office 365 by tracing and analyzing all operations and activities. Drill down into SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Exchange data.	Microsoft 365
Security Alerts	Provides a Security Alerts dashboard for alerts in your Microsoft Sentinel environment. For more information, see Automatically create incidents from Microsoft security alerts.	SOC Handbook
Security Operations Efficiency	Intended for security operations center (SOC) managers to view overall efficiency metrics and measures regarding the performance of their team. For more information, see Manage your SOC better with incident metrics.	SOC Handbook
Threat Intelligence	Provides insights into threat indicators ingestion. Search for indicators at scale across Microsoft 1st party, 3rd party, on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud workloads. For more information, see Understand threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel and our TechCommunity blog.	Threat Intelligence
Workspace Usage Report	Provides insights into your workspace's usage. View your workspace’s data consumption, latency, recommended tasks, and cost and usage statistics.	Workspace Usage Report
Zero Trust (TIC3.0)	Provides an automated visualization of Zero Trust principles, cross-walked to the Trusted Internet Connections framework. For more information, see the Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) workbook announcement blog.	Zero Trust (TIC 3.0)

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