Get live response results

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
  • eu.api.security.microsoft.com
  • uk.api.security.microsoft.com
  • au.api.security.microsoft.com
  • swa.api.security.microsoft.com
  • ina.api.security.microsoft.com

API description

Retrieves a specific live response command result by its index.

Limitations

  1. Rate limitations for this API are 100 calls per minute and 1500 calls per hour.

Minimum requirements

Before you can initiate a session on a device, make sure you fulfill the following requirements:

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 Machine.Read.All Read all machine profiles
Application Machine.ReadWrite.All Read and write all machine information
Delegated (work or school account) Machine.LiveResponse Run live response on a specific machine

HTTP request

GET https://api.securitycenter.microsoft.com/api/machineactions/{machine action
id}/GetLiveResponseResultDownloadLink(index={command-index})

Request headers

Name Type Description
Authorization String Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Empty

Response

If successful, this method returns 200, Ok response code with object that holds the link to the command result in the value property. This link is valid for 30 minutes and should be used immediately for downloading the package to a local storage. An expired link can be re-created by another call, and there's no need to run live response again.

Runscript transcript properties:

Property Description
script_name Executed script name
exit_code Executed script exit code
script_output Executed script standard output
script_errors Executed script standard error output

Example

Request example

Here's an example of the request.

GET https://api.securitycenter.microsoft.com/api/machineactions/988cc94e-7a8f-4b28-ab65-54970c5d5018/GetLiveResponseResultDownloadLink(index=0)

Response example

Here's an example of the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 Ok

Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://api.securitycenter.microsoft.com/api/$metadata#Edm.String",
    "value": "https://core.windows.net/investigation-actions-data/ID/CustomPlaybookCommandOutput/4ed5e7807ad1fe59b00b664fe06a0f07?se=2021-02-04T16%3A13%3A50Z&sp=r&sv=2019-07-07&sr=b&sig=1dYGe9rPvUlXBPvYSmr6/OLXPY98m8qWqfIQCBbyZTY%3D"
}

File content:

{
    "script_name": "minidump.ps1",
    "exit_code": 0,
    "script_output": "Transcript started, output file is C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection\\Temp\\PSScriptOutputs\\PSScript_Transcript_{TRANSCRIPT_ID}.txt
C:\\windows\\TEMP\\OfficeClickToRun.dmp.zip\n51 MB\n\u0000\u0000\u0000",
    "script_errors":""
}

Tip

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