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Overview of Microsoft Defender XDR APIs

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Applies to:

  • Microsoft Defender XDR

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Try our new APIs using MS Graph security API. Find out more at: Use the Microsoft Graph security API - Microsoft Graph | Microsoft Learn.

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Microsoft Defender XDR is built on top of an integration-ready platform.

Use the Microsoft Defender XDR APIs to automate workflows based on the shared incident and advanced hunting tables.

  • Combined incidents queue - Focus on what's critical by grouping the full attack scope and all impacted assets together under the incident API.

  • Cross-product threat hunting - Leverage your security team's organizational knowledge to hunt for signs of compromise, by creating your own custom queries to sift over raw data collected across multiple protection products.

  • Event streaming API - Ship real-time events and alerts in a single data stream as they occur.

Along with these Microsoft Defender XDR-specific APIs, each of our other security products expose additional APIs to help you take advantage of their unique capabilities.

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The transition to the unified portal should not affect the PowerBi dashboards based on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint APIs. You can continue to work with the existing APIs regardless of the interactive portal transition.

Watch this short video to learn how you can use Microsoft Defender XDR to automate workflows and integrate apps.

Learn more

Understand how to access the APIs
Use the Microsoft Graph security API - Microsoft Graph | Microsoft Learn
Learn about API quotas and licensing
Access the Microsoft Defender XDR APIs
Build apps
Create a 'Hello world' app
Create an app to access Microsoft Defender XDR APIs on behalf of a user
Create an app to access Microsoft Defender XDR without a user
Create an app with multi-tenant partner access to Microsoft Defender XDR APIs
Troubleshoot and maintain your apps
Understand API error codes
Manage secrets in your apps with Azure Key Vault
Implement OAuth 2.0 authorization for user sign in

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Do you want to learn more? Engage with the Microsoft Security community in our Tech Community: Microsoft Defender XDR Tech Community.