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Get user related alerts API

Applies to: Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP)

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API description

Retrieves a collection of alerts related to a given user 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

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' (See Create and manage roles for more information)
• Response will include only alerts, associated with machines, that the user have access to, based on machine group settings (See Create and manage machine groups for more information)

HTTP request

GET /api/users/{id}/alerts

Note that the id is not the full UPN, but only the user name. (e.g., to retrieve alerts for user1@contoso.com use /api/users/user1/alerts)

Request headers

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

Request body

Empty

Response

If successful and user exist - 200 OK. If the user do not exist - 404 Not Found.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

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GET https://api.securitycenter.windows.com/api/users/user1/alerts