Service limits for Microsoft Sentinel

This article lists the most common service limits you might encounter as you use Microsoft Sentinel. For other limits that might impact services or features you use, like Azure Monitor, see Azure subscription and service limits, quotas, and constraints.

Analytics rule limits

The following limit applies to analytics rules in Microsoft Sentinel.

Description Limit Dependency
Number of enabled rules 512 rules None
Number of near-real-time (NRT) rules 50 NRT rules None
Entity mappings 10 mappings per rule None
Entities identified per alert
(Divided equally among the mapped entities)
500 entities per alert None
Entities cumulative size limit 64 KB None
Custom details 20 details per rule
50 values per detail
2 KB cumulative size
None
Alert details 50 values per overridden field
5 KB per field for Description and collections
256 bytes per field for AlertName and non-collections
None
Alerts per rule
Applicable when Event grouping is set to Trigger an alert for each event
150 alerts None
Alerts per rule for NRT rules 30 alerts None

Incident limits

The following limits apply to incidents in Microsoft Sentinel.

Description Limit Dependency
Investigation experience availability 90 days from the incident last update time None
Number of alerts 150 alerts None
Number of automation rules 512 rules None
Number of automation rule actions 20 actions None
Number of automation rule conditions 50 conditions None
Number of bookmarks 20 bookmarks None
Number of characters for automation rule name 500 characters None
Number of characters for description 5,000 characters None
Number of characters per comment 30,000 characters None
Number of comments per incident 100 comments None
Number of tasks 40 tasks None
Number of incidents returned by API to list request 1,000 incidents maximum None
Number of incidents per day (per workspace) See explanation after table Database capacity

Number of incidents per day: There isn't a formal, hard limit on the number of incidents that can be created per day. A workspace's actual capacity for incidents depends on the storage capacity of the incident database, so the size of the incidents is as much a factor as their number.

Machine learning-based limits

The following limits apply to machine learning-based features in Microsoft Sentinel like customizable anomalies and Fusion.

Description Limit Dependency
Number of anomalies published per anomaly type Top 3000 ranked by anomaly score None
Number of alerts and/or anomalies in a single Fusion incident 100 alerts and/or anomalies None

Multi workspace limits

The following limit applies to multiple workspaces in Microsoft Sentinel. Limits here are applied when working with Sentinel features across more than workspace at a time.

Description Limit Dependency
Incident view 100 concurrently displayed workspaces
Log query 100 Sentinel workspaces Log Analytics
Analytics rules 20 Sentinel workspaces per query

Notebook limits

The following limits apply to notebooks in Microsoft Sentinel. The limits are related to the dependencies on other services used by notebooks.

Description Limit Dependency
Total count of these assets per machine learning workspace: datasets, runs, models, and artifacts 10 million assets Azure Machine Learning
Default limit for total compute clusters per region. Limit is shared between a training cluster and a compute instance. A compute instance is considered a single-node cluster for quota purposes. 200 compute clusters per region Azure Machine Learning
Storage accounts per region per subscription 250 storage accounts Azure Storage
Maximum size of a file share by default 5 TB Azure Storage
Maximum size of a file share with large file share feature enabled 100 TB Azure Storage
Maximum throughput (ingress + egress) for a single file share by default 60 MB/sec Azure Storage
Maximum throughput (ingress + egress) for a single file share with large file share feature enabled 300 MB/sec Azure Storage

Repositories limits

The following limits apply to repositories in Microsoft Sentinel.

Description Limit Dependency
Number of repositories 5 Sentinel Workspace
Deployment history 800 Azure Resource Group

Threat intelligence limits

The following limit applies to threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel. The limit is related to the dependency on an API used by threat intelligence.

Description Limit Dependency
Indicators per call that use Graph security API 100 indicators Microsoft Graph security API
CSV indicator file import size 50MB none
JSON indicator file import size 250MB none

User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) limits

The following limit applies to UEBA in Microsoft Sentinel. The limit for UEBA in Microsoft Sentinel is related to dependencies on another service.

Description Limit Dependency
Lowest retention configuration in days for the IdentityInfo table. All data stored on the IdentityInfo table in Log Analytics is refreshed every 14 days. 14 days Log Analytics

Watchlist limits

The following limits apply to watchlists in Microsoft Sentinel. The limits are related to the dependencies on other services used by watchlists.

Description Limit Dependency
Upload size for local file 3.8 MB per file Azure Resource Manager
Line entry in the CSV file 10,240 characters per line Azure Resource Manager
Total size of a single row 10 Kb Log Analytics
Upload size for files in Azure Storage 500 MB per file Azure Storage
Total number of active watchlist items per workspace. When the max count is reached, delete some existing items to add a new watchlist. 10 million active watchlist items Log Analytics
Total rate of change of all watchlist items per workspace 1% rate of change per month Log Analytics
Number of large watchlist uploads per workspace at a time One large watchlist Azure Cosmos DB
Number of large watchlist deletions per workspace at a time One large watchlist Azure Cosmos DB

Workbook limits

Workbook limits for Sentinel are the same result limits found in Azure Monitor. For more information, see Workbooks result limits.

Workspace manager limits

The following limits apply to workspace manager in Microsoft Sentinel.

Description Limit Dependency
Number of published operations in a group
Published operations = (member workspaces) * (content items)
2000 published operations None

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