List Investigations API

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04/24/2024

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

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us.api.security.microsoft.com
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uk.api.security.microsoft.com
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swa.api.security.microsoft.com
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API description

Retrieves a collection of Investigations.

Supports OData V4 queries.

The OData's $filter query is supported on: startTime, id, state, machineId, and triggeringAlertId properties.
$stop with max value of 10,000
$skip

See examples at OData queries with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Limitations

Maximum page size is 10,000.
Rate limitations for this API are 100 calls per minute and 1,500 calls per hour.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint APIs.

Permission type	Permission	Permission display name
Application	Alert.Read.All	`Read all alerts`
Application	Alert.ReadWrite.All	`Read and write all alerts`
Delegated (work or school account)	Alert.Read	`Read alerts`
Delegated (work or school account)	Alert.ReadWrite	`Read and write alerts`

Note

When obtaining a token using user credentials:

The user needs to have at least the following role permission: View Data. For more information, see Create and manage roles for more information.

HTTP request

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

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 Investigations entities.

Example

Request example

Here's an example of a request to get all investigations:

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

Response example

Here's an example of the response:

{
    "@odata.context": "https://api.securitycenter.microsoft.com/api/$metadata#Investigations",
    "value": [
        {
            "id": "63017",
            "startTime": "2020-01-06T14:11:34Z",
            "endTime": null,
            "state": "Running",
            "cancelledBy": null,
            "statusDetails": null,
            "machineId": "a69a22debe5f274d8765ea3c368d00762e057b30",
            "computerDnsName": "desktop-gtrcon0",
            "triggeringAlertId": "da637139166940871892_-598649278"
        }
        ...
    ]
}

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