DeviceRegistryEvents

Microsoft Defender for Endpoints (MDE) device registry events table. This table contains contains creation and modification of registry entries on the endpoint, and information about the processes initiating such events.

Table attributes

Attribute	Value
Resource types	-
Categories	Security
Solutions	SecurityInsights
Basic log	No
Ingestion-time transformation	Yes
Sample Queries	-

Columns

Column	Type	Description
ActionType	string	Type of activity that triggered the event.
AppGuardContainerId	string	Identifier for the virtualized container used by Application Guard to isolate browser activity.
_BilledSize	real	The record size in bytes
DeviceId	string	Unique identifier for the device in the service.
DeviceName	string	Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the device.
InitiatingProcessAccountDomain	string	Domain of the account that ran the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessAccountName	string	User name of the account that ran the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessAccountObjectId	string	Azure AD object ID of the user account that ran the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessAccountSid	string	Security Identifier (SID) of the account that ran the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessAccountUpn	string	User principal name (UPN) of the account that ran the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessCommandLine	string	Command line used to run the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessCreationTime	datetime	Date and time when the process that initiated the event was started.
InitiatingProcessFileName	string	Name of the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessFileSize	long	The size of the file (bytes) that ran the process responsible for the event.
InitiatingProcessFolderPath	string	Folder containing the initiating process (image file).
InitiatingProcessId	long	Process ID (PID) of the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessIntegrityLevel	string	Integrity level of the initiating process. Windows assigns integrity levels to processes based on certain characteristics, such as if they were launched from an internet download. These integrity levels influence permissions to resources..
InitiatingProcessMD5	string	MD5 hash of the initiating process (image file).
InitiatingProcessParentCreationTime	datetime	Date and time when the parent of the process responsible for the event was started.
InitiatingProcessParentFileName	string	Name of the parent process that spawned the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessParentId	long	Process ID (PID) of the parent process that spawned the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessSHA1	string	SHA-1 hash of the initiating process (image file).
InitiatingProcessSHA256	string	SHA-256 hash of the initiating process (image file). In some cases this column may not be populated - please use the InitiatingProcessSHA1 column instead.
InitiatingProcessTokenElevation	string	Token type indicating the presence or absence of User Access Control (UAC) privilege elevation applied to the initiating process.
InitiatingProcessVersionInfoCompanyName	string	The company name in version information (image file) responsible for the event.
InitiatingProcessVersionInfoFileDescription	string	The description in version information (image file) responsible for the event.
InitiatingProcessVersionInfoInternalFileName	string	The internal file name in version information (image file) responsible for the event.
InitiatingProcessVersionInfoOriginalFileName	string	The original file name in version information (image file) responsible for the event.
InitiatingProcessVersionInfoProductName	string	The product name in version information (image file) responsible for the event.
InitiatingProcessVersionInfoProductVersion	string	The product version in version information (image file) responsible for the event.
_IsBillable	string	Specifies whether ingesting the data is billable. When _IsBillable is false ingestion isn't billed to your Azure account
MachineGroup	string	Machine group of the machine. This group is used by role-based access control to determine access to the machine.
PreviousRegistryKey	string	Original registry key before it was modified.
PreviousRegistryValueData	string	Original data of the registry value before it was modified.
PreviousRegistryValueName	string	Original name of the registry value before it was modified.
RegistryKey	string	Registry key that the recorded action was applied to.
RegistryValueData	string	Data of the registry value that the recorded action was applied to.
RegistryValueName	string	Name of the registry value that the recorded action was applied to.
RegistryValueType	string	Data type, such as binary or string, of the registry value that the recorded action was applied to.
ReportId	long	Event identifier based on a repeating counter. To identify unique events, this column must be used in conjunction with the ComputerName and EventTime columns..
SourceSystem	string	The type of agent the event was collected by. For example, OpsManager for Windows agent, either direct connect or Operations Manager, Linux for all Linux agents, or Azure for Azure Diagnostics
TenantId	string	The Log Analytics workspace ID
TimeGenerated	datetime	Date and time the event was recorded by the MDE agent on the endpoint.
Type	string	The name of the table