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Source types for the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Cloud Services

The Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Cloud Services provides the index-time and search-time knowledge for Microsoft Cloud Services data in the following formats:

The ms:o365:management source type is for backward compatibility. A similar source type, o365:management:activity, is in the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Office 365.

Data source

Source type

Event type

API

CIM data models

ITSI data models

Notes

Azure Event Hubs

mscs:azure:eventhub

n/a

Microsoft Azure Event Hubs Client Library for Python

n/a

n/a

Azure Event Hubs

mscs:azure:security:alert

n/a

Microsoft Azure Event Hubs Client Library for Python

Alerts

n/a

Azure Event Hubs

mscs:azure:security:recommendation

n/a

Microsoft Azure Event Hubs Client Library for Python

Alerts

n/a

Azure Event Hubs

azure:monitor:aad

mscs_audit_auth_account_management, mscs_audit_auth_all_changes, mscs_audit_auth_authentication, mscs_audit_auth_alerts, mscs_azure_aad_auditlogs, mscs_azure_aad_signinlogs, mscs_azure_aad_provisionlogs, mscs_azure_aad_userlogs

Microsoft Azure Event Hubs Client Library for Python

Alerts, Authentication, Change

n/a

Azure Event Hubs

azure:monitor:resource

n/a

Microsoft Azure Event Hubs Client Library for Python

Change, Databases DataAccess

n/a

Azure Event Hubs

azure:monitor:activity

mscs_azure_activity_all_changes, mscs_azure_activity_instance_changes, mscs_azure_activity_administrative_logs

Microsoft Azure Event Hubs Client Library for Python

Change

n/a

Azure Resource virtualMachine

mscs:resource:virtualMachine

mscs_inventory_vm

Azure Virtual Machines REST — List
Azure Virtual Machines REST — Get VM information

n/a

Inventory

Azure Resource network
InterfaceCard

mscs:resource:networkInterfaceCard

mscs_inventory_vm

Azure Network REST — List network interface cards

n/a

Inventory

Azure Resource public
IPAddress

mscs:resource:publicIPAddress

n/a

Azure Network REST — List public IP addresses

n/a

n/a

Resource virtualNetwork

mscs:resource:virtualNetwork

n/a

Azure Network REST — List virtual networks

n/a

n/a

Azure Resource Disk

mscs:resource:disk

mscs_azure_resource_disk

n/a

Inventory, Storage

n/a

Azure Resource Image

mscs:resource:image

mscs_azure_resource_image

n/a

Inventory, Virtual

n/a

Azure Resource Snapshot

mscs:resource:snapshot

mscs_azure_resource_snapshot

n/a

Inventory, Virtual, Snapshot

n/a

Azure Resource Group

mscs:resource:resourceGroup

mscs_azure_resource_resourceGroup

n/a

Inventory

n/a

Azure Resource Subscription

mscs:resource:subscriptions

mscs_azure_resource_subscriptions

n/a

Inventory

n/a

Azure Resource SecurityGroup

mscs:resource:securityGroup

mscs_azure_resource_securityGroup

n/a

Inventory

n/a

Azure Audit log

mscs:azure:audit

n/a

Azure Insights — List events for an Azure subscription

Alerts, Change

n/a

Azure Storage Table

mscs:storage:table

n/a

Azure SDK for Python

n/a

n/a

Azure Storage Blob

mscs:storage:blob

n/a

Azure SDK for Python

n/a

n/a

Azure Storage Blob

mscs:storage:blob:json

n/a

Azure SDK for Python — Storage Table query_
entities

n/a

n/a

When selected in the input, XML and JSON fields for the mscs:storage:blob:xml and mscs:storage:blob:json source types are automatically extracted. You can configure the settings for these source types in their respective stanzas in your local props.conf file.

Azure Storage Blob

mscs:storage:blob:xml

n/a

Azure SDK for Python — Storage Table query_
entities

n/a

n/a

When selected in the input, XML and JSON fields for the mscs:storage:blob:xml and mscs:storage:blob:json source types are automatically extracted. You can configure the settings for these source types in their respective stanzas in your local props.conf file.

Virtual Machine Metrics

mscs:vm:metrics

mscs_perf_vm_cpu

Azure SDK for Python — Storage Table query_
entities

n/a

Performance

Azure Metrics

mscs:metrics

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Azure Metrics

mscs:metrics:events

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Azure KQL Log Analytics

mscs:kql

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Azure KQL Log Analytics

mscs:kql:stats

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Azure Consumption (Billing)

mscs:consumption:billing

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Azure Consumption (Billing)

mscs:consumption:reservation:recommendation

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a