List Indicators API

Article
09/27/2023

Applies to:

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Note

If you are a US Government customer, please use the URIs listed in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for US Government customers.

Tip

For better performance, you can use server closer to your geo location:

api-us.securitycenter.microsoft.com
api-eu.securitycenter.microsoft.com
api-uk.securitycenter.microsoft.com
api-au.securitycenter.microsoft.com

API description

Retrieves a collection of all active Indicators.

Supports OData V4 queries.

The OData's $filter query is supported on: application, createdByDisplayName, expirationTime, generateAlert, title, rbacGroupNames, rbacGroupIds, indicatorValue, indicatorType, creationTimeDateTimeUtc, createdBy, action, and severity properties.
$stop with max value of 10,000.
$skip.

See examples at OData queries with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Limitations

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 Get started

Permission type	Permission	Permission display name
Application	Ti.ReadWrite	'Read and write Indicators'
Application	Ti.ReadWrite.All	'Read and write All Indicators'
Delegated (work or school account)	Ti.ReadWrite	'Read and write Indicators'

HTTP request

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

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 Indicator entities.

Note

If the Application has 'Ti.ReadWrite.All' permission, it will be exposed to all Indicators. Otherwise, it will be exposed only to the Indicators it created.

Example 1

Example 1 request

Here is an example of a request that gets all Indicators

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

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#Indicators",
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "995",
            "indicatorValue": "12.13.14.15",
            "indicatorType": "IpAddress",
            "action": "Alert",
            "application": "demo-test",
            "source": "TestPrdApp",
            "sourceType": "AadApp",
            "title": "test",
            "creationTimeDateTimeUtc": "2018-10-24T11:15:35.3688259Z",
            "createdBy": "45097602-1234-5678-1234-9f453233e62c",
            "expirationTime": "2020-12-12T00:00:00Z",
            "lastUpdateTime": "2019-10-24T10:54:23.2009016Z",
            "lastUpdatedBy": TestPrdApp,
            "severity": "Informational",
            "description": "test",
            "recommendedActions": "test",
            "rbacGroupNames": []
        },
        {
            "id": "996",
            "indicatorValue": "220e7d15b0b3d7fac48f2bd61114db1022197f7f",
            "indicatorType": "FileSha1",
            "action": "AlertAndBlock",
            "application": null,
            "source": "TestPrdApp",
            "sourceType": "AadApp",
            "title": "test",
            "creationTimeDateTimeUtc": "2018-10-24T10:54:23.2009016Z",
            "createdBy": "45097602-1234-5678-1234-9f453233e62c",
            "expirationTime": "2020-12-12T00:00:00Z",
            "lastUpdateTime": "2019-10-24T10:54:23.2009016Z",
            "lastUpdatedBy": TestPrdApp,
            "severity": "Informational",
            "description": "test",
            "recommendedActions": "TEST",
            "rbacGroupNames": [ "Group1", "Group2" ]
        }
        ...
    ]
}

Example 2

Example 2 request

Here is an example of a request that gets all Indicators with 'AlertAndBlock' action

GET https://api.securitycenter.microsoft.com/api/indicators?$filter=action+eq+'AlertAndBlock'

Example 2 response