Windows security event sets that can be sent to Microsoft Sentinel

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When ingesting security events from Windows devices using the Windows Security Events data connector (including the legacy version), you can choose which events to collect from among the following sets:

  • All events - All Windows security and AppLocker events.

  • Common - A standard set of events for auditing purposes. A full user audit trail is included in this set. For example, it contains both user sign-in and user sign-out events (event IDs 4624, 4634). There are also auditing actions such as security group changes, key domain controller Kerberos operations, and other types of events in line with accepted best practices.

    The Common event set may contain some types of events that aren't so common. This is because the main point of the Common set is to reduce the volume of events to a more manageable level, while still maintaining full audit trail capability.

  • Minimal - A small set of events that might indicate potential threats. This set does not contain a full audit trail. It covers only events that might indicate a successful breach, and other important events that have very low rates of occurrence. For example, it contains successful and failed user logons (event IDs 4624, 4625), but it doesn't contain sign-out information (4634) which, while important for auditing, is not meaningful for breach detection and has relatively high volume. Most of the data volume of this set consists of sign-in events and process creation events (event ID 4688).

  • Custom - A set of events determined by you, the user, and defined in a data collection rule using XPath queries. Learn more about data collection rules.

Event ID reference

The following list provides a complete breakdown of the Security and App Locker event IDs for each set:

Event set Collected event IDs
Minimal 1102, 4624, 4625, 4657, 4663, 4688, 4700, 4702, 4719, 4720, 4722, 4723, 4724, 4727, 4728, 4732, 4735, 4737, 4739, 4740, 4754, 4755, 4756, 4767, 4799, 4825, 4946, 4948, 4956, 5024, 5033, 8001, 8002, 8003, 8004, 8005, 8006, 8007, 8222
Common 1, 299, 300, 324, 340, 403, 404, 410, 411, 412, 413, 431, 500, 501, 1100, 1102, 1107, 1108, 4608, 4610, 4611, 4614, 4622, 4624, 4625, 4634, 4647, 4648, 4649, 4657, 4661, 4662, 4663, 4665, 4666, 4667, 4688, 4670, 4672, 4673, 4674, 4675, 4689, 4697, 4700, 4702, 4704, 4705, 4716, 4717, 4718, 4719, 4720, 4722, 4723, 4724, 4725, 4726, 4727, 4728, 4729, 4733, 4732, 4735, 4737, 4738, 4739, 4740, 4742, 4744, 4745, 4746, 4750, 4751, 4752, 4754, 4755, 4756, 4757, 4760, 4761, 4762, 4764, 4767, 4768, 4771, 4774, 4778, 4779, 4781, 4793, 4797, 4798, 4799, 4800, 4801, 4802, 4803, 4825, 4826, 4870, 4886, 4887, 4888, 4893, 4898, 4902, 4904, 4905, 4907, 4931, 4932, 4933, 4946, 4948, 4956, 4985, 5024, 5033, 5059, 5136, 5137, 5140, 5145, 5632, 6144, 6145, 6272, 6273, 6278, 6416, 6423, 6424, 8001, 8002, 8003, 8004, 8005, 8006, 8007, 8222, 26401, 30004

Next steps

In this document, you learned how to filter the collection of Windows events into Microsoft Sentinel.