Overview
The Azure Sentinel integration uses the Microsoft Sentinel REST API to read:- Incidents and their lifecycle changes
- Analytics rule alerts and entity mappings
- Bookmarks and investigation comments
- Watchlist updates
Prerequisites
- A Microsoft Sentinel-enabled Log Analytics workspace.
- An Azure AD app registration with permission to read Sentinel data (Microsoft Sentinel Reader role on the resource group or workspace).
Step 1: Register an app in Azure AD
- In the Azure portal, open Microsoft Entra ID → App registrations → New registration.
- Name it
atatus-sentinel-readerand click Register. - Copy the Application (client) ID and Directory (tenant) ID from the Overview page.
- Open Certificates & secrets → New client secret, copy the secret Value.
Step 2: Grant Sentinel access
- Open the Resource group that contains the Sentinel workspace (or the workspace itself).
- Go to Access control (IAM) → Add role assignment.
- Choose the role Microsoft Sentinel Reader, then assign it to the app you registered.
Step 3: Connect Azure Sentinel in Atatus
- In Atatus, go to Security → Cloud SIEM → Integrations.
- Locate the Azure Sentinel card and click Connect.
- Fill in the form:
- Click Connect.
Verification
- The Azure Sentinel card shows Configured.
- Sentinel incidents and alerts appear in Security → Cloud SIEM → Audit Logs → Events with source
azure_sentinel.