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Microsoft Sentinel feature support for Azure commercial/other clouds

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This article describes the features available in Microsoft Sentinel across different Azure environments. Features are listed as GA (generally available), public preview, or shown as not available.

Note

These lists and tables do not include feature or bundle availability in the Azure Government Secret or Azure Government Top Secret clouds. For more information about specific availability for air-gapped clouds, please contact your account team.

Analytics

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Analytics rules health Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
MITRE ATT&CK dashboard Public preview ✅ ✅ ✅
NRT rules GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Recommendations Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Scheduled and Microsoft rules GA ✅ ✅ ✅

Content and content management

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Content hub and solutions GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Repositories Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Workbooks GA ✅ ✅ ✅

Data collection

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Amazon Web Services GA ✅ ✅ ❌
Amazon Web Services S3 GA ✅ ✅ ❌
Microsoft Entra ID GA ✅ ✅ ✅ 1
Microsoft Entra ID Protection GA ✅ ✅ ❌
Azure Activity GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Azure DDoS Protection GA ✅ ✅ ❌
Azure Firewall GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Azure Information Protection (Preview) Deprecated ❌ ❌ ❌
Azure Key Vault Public preview ✅ ✅ ✅
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Public preview ✅ ✅ ✅
Azure SQL Databases GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Cisco ASA GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Codeless Connectors Platform Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Common Event Format (CEF) GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Common Event Format (CEF) via AMA GA ✅ ✅ ✅
DNS Public preview ✅ ❌ ✅
GCP Pub/Sub Audit Logs Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Microsoft Defender XDR GA ✅ ✅ ❌
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (Preview) Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Microsoft Defender for Cloud GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Microsoft Defender for IoT GA ✅ ✅ ❌
Microsoft Power BI (Preview) Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Microsoft Project (Preview) Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Microsoft Purview (Preview) Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Microsoft Purview Information Protection Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Office 365 GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Security Events via Legacy Agent GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Syslog GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Syslog via AMA GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Windows DNS Events via AMA GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Windows Firewall GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Windows Forwarded Events GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Windows Security Events via AMA GA ✅ ✅ ✅

1 Supports only sign-in logs and audit logs.

Hunting

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Bookmarks GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Hunts Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Livestream GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Queries GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Restore historical data GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Search large datasets GA ✅ ✅ ✅

Incidents

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Add entities to threat intelligence Public preview ✅ ✅ ✅
Advanced and/or conditions GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Automation rules GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Automation rules health Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Create incidents manually GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Cross-tenant/Cross-workspace incidents view GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Incident advanced search GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Incident tasks GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Microsoft 365 Defender incident integration GA ✅ ✅ ❌
Microsoft Teams integrations Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Playbook template gallery Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Run playbooks on entities Public preview ✅ ✅ ✅
Run playbooks on incidents Public preview ✅ ✅ ✅
SOC incident audit metrics GA ✅ ✅ ✅

Machine Learning

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Anomalous RDP login detection - built-in ML detection Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Anomalous SSH login detection - built-in ML detection Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Fusion - advanced multistage attack detections 1 GA ✅ ✅ ✅

1 Partially GA: The ability to disable specific findings from vulnerability scans is in public preview.

Managing Microsoft Sentinel

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Workspace manager Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
SIEM migration experience GA ✅ ❌ ❌

Normalization

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Advanced Security Information Model (ASIM) Public preview ✅ ✅ ✅

Notebooks

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Notebooks GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Notebook integration with Azure Synapse Public preview ✅ ✅ ✅

SAP

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Threat protection for SAP GA ✅ ✅ ✅

Threat intelligence support

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
GeoLocation and WhoIs data enrichment Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Import TI from flat file Public preview ✅ ✅ ✅
Threat Intelligence Platform data connector Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Threat Intelligence Research page GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Threat Intelligence - TAXII data connector GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Microsoft Defender for Threat Intelligence connector Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Microsoft Defender Threat intelligence matching analytics Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Threat Intelligence workbook GA ✅ ✅ ✅
URL detonation Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Threat Intelligence Upload Indicators API Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌

UEBA

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Active Directory sync via MDI Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Azure resource entity pages Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Entity insights GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Entity pages GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Identity info table data ingestion GA ✅ ✅ ✅
IoT device entity page Public preview ✅ ✅ ❌
Peer/Blast radius enrichments Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
SOC-ML anomalies GA ✅ ✅ ❌
UEBA anomalies GA ✅ ✅ ❌
UEBA enrichments\insights GA ✅ ✅ ✅

Watchlists

Feature Feature stage Azure commercial Azure Government Azure China 21Vianet
Large watchlists from Azure Storage Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌
Watchlists GA ✅ ✅ ✅
Watchlist templates Public preview ✅ ❌ ❌

Next steps

In this article, you learned about available features in Microsoft Sentinel.