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title: Get MachineAction object API
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# Get machineAction API

**Applies to:** [Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP)](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2069559)

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## API description
Retrieves specific [Machine Action](machineaction.md) by its ID.


## Limitations
1. Rate limitations for this API are 100 calls per minute and 1500 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 ATP APIs](apis-intro.md)

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.Read | 'Read machine information'
Delegated (work or school account) | Machine.ReadWrite | 'Read and write machine information'

>[!Note]
> When obtaining a token using user credentials:
>- The user needs to have at least the following role permission: 'View Data' (See [Create and manage roles](user-roles.md) for more information)

## HTTP request
```
GET https://api.securitycenter.windows.com/api/machineactions/{id}
```

## 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 [Machine Action](machineaction.md) entity. If machine action entity with the specified id was not found - 404 Not Found.

## Example

**Request**

Here is an example of the request.

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```
GET https://api.securitycenter.windows.com/api/machineactions/2e9da30d-27f6-4208-81f2-9cd3d67893ba
```

**Response**

Here is an example of the response.


```
HTTP/1.1 200 Ok
Content-type: application/json
{
    "@odata.context": "https://api.securitycenter.windows.com/api/$metadata#MachineActions/$entity",
    "id": "5382f7ea-7557-4ab7-9782-d50480024a4e",
    "type": "Isolate",
	"scope": "Selective",
    "requestor": "Analyst@TestPrd.onmicrosoft.com",
    "requestorComment": "test for docs",
    "status": "Succeeded",
    "machineId": "7b1f4967d9728e5aa3c06a9e617a22a4a5a17378",
    "computerDnsName": "desktop-test",
    "creationDateTimeUtc": "2019-01-02T14:39:38.2262283Z",
    "lastUpdateDateTimeUtc": "2019-01-02T14:40:44.6596267Z",
    "relatedFileInfo": null
}


```