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Microsoft 365 monitoring and alerts

How to monitor a Microsoft 365 tenant — service health, audit logs, security alerts, and third-party tooling.

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What should I alert on in Microsoft 365?

Break-glass sign-ins, new Global Administrator assignments, Conditional Access policy changes, new app consents with high-privilege permissions, mailbox forwarding rules to external domains, mass file deletions or downl…

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Where do Microsoft 365 alerts come from?

Defender XDR (security incidents), Purview alert policies (compliance and activity alerts), Entra ID Protection (risk), Identity Governance and PIM (role activity), the service health dashboard (Microsoft-side incidents…

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Can I get Microsoft 365 alerts in Teams?

Yes. Alert policies and Defender can email a shared mailbox or trigger Power Automate flows that post to a Teams channel; Sentinel playbooks post to Teams natively; the service health dashboard can email admins and push…

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