Get incident

Namespace: microsoft.graph.security

Retrieve the properties and relationships of an incident object.

Attacks are typically inflicted on different types of entities, such as devices, users, and mailboxes, resulting in multiple alert objects. Microsoft 365 Defender correlates alerts with the same attack techniques or the same attacker into an incident.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	❌

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	SecurityIncident.Read.All	SecurityIncident.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	SecurityIncident.Read.All	SecurityIncident.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /security/incidents/{incidentId}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an incident object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/incidents/2972395

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Security.Incidents["{incident-id}"].GetAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc security incidents get --incident-id {incident-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
incidents, err := graphClient.Security().Incidents().ByIncidentId("incident-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.models.security.Incident result = graphClient.security().incidents().byIncidentId("{incident-id}").get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let incident = await client.api('/security/incidents/2972395')
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->security()->incidents()->byIncidentId('incident-id')->get()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Security

Get-MgSecurityIncident -IncidentId $incidentId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.security.incidents.by_incident_id('incident-id').get()

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.incident",
    "id": "2972395",
    "incidentWebUrl": "https://security.microsoft.com/incidents/2972395?tid=12f988bf-16f1-11af-11ab-1d7cd011db47",
    "redirectIncidentId": null,
    "displayName": "Multi-stage incident involving Initial access & Command and control on multiple endpoints reported by multiple sources",
    "tenantId": "b3c1b5fc-828c-45fa-a1e1-10d74f6d6e9c",
    "createdDateTime": "2021-08-13T08:43:35.5533333Z",
    "lastUpdateDateTime": "2021-09-30T09:35:45.1133333Z",
    "assignedTo": "KaiC@contoso.com",
    "classification": "TruePositive",
    "determination": "MultiStagedAttack",
    "status": "Active",
    "severity": "Medium",
    "customTags": [
        "Demo"
    ],
    "comments": [
        {
            "comment": "Demo incident",
            "createdBy": "DavidS@contoso.com",
            "createdTime": "2021-09-30T12:07:37.2756993Z"
        }
    ],
    "systemTags": [
        "Defender Experts"
    ],
    "description": "Microsoft observed Raspberry Robin worm activity spreading through infected USB on multiple devices in your environment. From available intel, these infections could be a potential precursor activity to ransomware deployment. ...",
    "lastModifiedBy": "DavidS@contoso.onmicrosoft.com",
    "summary": "Defender Experts has identified some malicious activity. This incident has been raised for your awareness and should be investigated as normal."
}