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Note

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API description

Retrieves a collection of Machine Actions.

Supports OData V4 queries.

The OData's $filter query is supported on: id, status, machineId, type, requestor, and creationDateTimeUtc properties.

$stop with max value of 10,000

$skip

See examples at OData queries with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Limitations

  1. Maximum page size is 10,000.
  2. Rate limitations for this API are 100 calls per minute and 1500 calls per hour.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint APIs

Permission type Permission Permission display name
Application Machine.Read.All 'Read all machine profiles'
Application Machine.ReadWrite.All 'Read and write all machine information'
Delegated (work or school account) Machine.Read 'Read machine information'
Delegated (work or school account) Machine.ReadWrite 'Read and write machine information'

Note

When obtaining a token using user credentials:

The user needs to have at least the following role permission: 'View Data' (See Create and manage roles for more information)

HTTP request

GET https://api.securitycenter.microsoft.com/api/machineactions

Request headers

Name Type Description
Authorization String Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Empty

Response

If successful, this method returns 200, Ok response code with a collection of machineAction entities.

Example 1

Example 1 request

Here is an example of the request on an organization that has three MachineActions.

GET https://api.securitycenter.microsoft.com/api/machineactions

Example 1 response

Here is an example of the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 Ok
Content-type: application/json
{
    "@odata.context": "https://api.securitycenter.microsoft.com/api/$metadata#MachineActions",
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "69dc3630-1ccc-4342-acf3-35286eec741d",
            "type": "CollectInvestigationPackage",
            "scope": null,
            "requestor": "Analyst@contoso.com",
            "requestorComment": "test",
            "status": "Succeeded",
            "machineId": "f46b9bb259ed4a7fb9981b73510e3cc7aa81ec1f",
            "computerDnsName": "desktop-39g9tgl",
            "creationDateTimeUtc": "2018-12-04T12:43:57.2011911Z",
            "lastUpdateTimeUtc": "2018-12-04T12:45:25.4049122Z",
            "relatedFileInfo": null
        },
        {
            "id": "2e9da30d-27f6-4208-81f2-9cd3d67893ba",
            "type": "RunAntiVirusScan",
            "scope": "Full",
            "requestor": "Analyst@contoso.com",
            "requestorComment": "Check machine for viruses due to alert 3212",
            "status": "Succeeded",
            "machineId": "f46b9bb259ed4a7fb9981b73510e3cc7aa81ec1f",
            "computerDnsName": "desktop-39g9tgl",
            "creationDateTimeUtc": "2018-12-04T12:18:27.1293487Z",
            "lastUpdateTimeUtc": "2018-12-04T12:18:57.5511934Z",
            "relatedFileInfo": null
        },
        {
            "id": "44cffc15-0e3d-4cbf-96aa-bf76f9b27f5e",
            "type": "StopAndQuarantineFile",
            "scope": null,
            "requestor": "Analyst@contoso.com",
            "requestorComment": "test",
            "status": "Succeeded",
            "machineId": "f46b9bb259ed4a7fb9981b73510e3cc7aa81ec1f",
            "computerDnsName": "desktop-39g9tgl",
            "creationDateTimeUtc": "2018-12-04T12:15:40.6052029Z",
            "lastUpdateTimeUtc": "2018-12-04T12:16:14.2899973Z",
            "relatedFileInfo": {
                "fileIdentifier": "a0c659857ccbe457fdaf5fe21d54efdcbf6f6508",
                "fileIdentifierType": "Sha1"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Example 2

Example 2 request

Here is an example of a request that filters the MachineActions by machine ID and shows the latest two MachineActions.

GET https://api.securitycenter.microsoft.com/api/machineactions?$filter=machineId eq 'f46b9bb259ed4a7fb9981b73510e3cc7aa81ec1f'&$top=2

Example 2 response

Here is an example of the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 Ok
Content-type: application/json
{
    "@odata.context": "https://api.securitycenter.microsoft.com/api/$metadata#MachineActions",
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "69dc3630-1ccc-4342-acf3-35286eec741d",
            "type": "CollectInvestigationPackage",
            "scope": null,
            "requestor": "Analyst@contoso.com",
            "requestorComment": "test",
            "status": "Succeeded",
            "machineId": "f46b9bb259ed4a7fb9981b73510e3cc7aa81ec1f",
            "computerDnsName": "desktop-39g9tgl",
            "creationDateTimeUtc": "2018-12-04T12:43:57.2011911Z",
            "lastUpdateTimeUtc": "2018-12-04T12:45:25.4049122Z",
            "relatedFileInfo": null
        },
        {
            "id": "2e9da30d-27f6-4208-81f2-9cd3d67893ba",
            "type": "RunAntiVirusScan",
            "scope": "Full",
            "requestor": "Analyst@contoso.com",
            "requestorComment": "Check machine for viruses due to alert 3212",
            "status": "Succeeded",
            "machineId": "f46b9bb259ed4a7fb9981b73510e3cc7aa81ec1f",
            "computerDnsName": "desktop-39g9tgl",
            "creationDateTimeUtc": "2018-12-04T12:18:27.1293487Z",
            "lastUpdateTimeUtc": "2018-12-04T12:18:57.5511934Z",
            "relatedFileInfo": null
        }
    ]
}

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