Azure OpenAI Abuse Monitoring

Question

Does Azure OpenAI monitor prompts for Abuse or other potential harmful content for Unmanaged customers? I know it does for Managed customers, but I could not find any clear answer if it does for Unmanaged customers as well?

Answer 1

Hello Prateek Dorwal,

Thanks for your question

Simple answer: Yes it does

This monitoring is active for all customers unless they have been approved for modified abuse monitoring. Unless you are a managed customer with approved modified abuse monitoring, Azure OpenAI’s abuse monitoring system will be active for your account

See:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/concepts/abuse-monitoring

For modifications you need approval with this form
https://customervoice.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR7en2Ais5pxKtso_Pz4b1_xUOE9MUTFMUlpBNk5IQlZWWkcyUEpWWEhGOCQlQCN0PWcu

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Abiola

Answer 2

Hi Prateek Dorwal,

Yes, Azure OpenAI does monitor prompts and completions for abuse and potentially harmful content even for unmanaged customers. The abuse monitoring system is applied by default across all Azure OpenAI customers whether managed or unmanaged. This includes real-time classification of both input prompts and model outputs to detect harmful categories such as hate speech, violence, sexual content, or attempts to jailbreak the model. Azure OpenAI retains flagged prompts and completions for around 30 days to enable pattern analysis, automated and human reviews, and enforcement actions if needed. If a customer requires stricter confidentiality for example, to ensure that prompts and completions are not stored or reviewed by humans they can apply for modified abuse monitoring, which disables storage and human review but still keeps automated abuse detection active. This ensures that even unmanaged customers are covered by Microsoft's responsible AI safeguards, unless they have received approval for modified monitoring through a formal process.