Add Alert

Manage scheduled tenant alerts.

CIPP offers a set of scheduled, recurring alert checks. Some of these duplicate Microsoft Alerts functionality in a more MSP-friendly manner and some are not available as a Microsoft Alert at this time. Similar to Tenant Standards, you configure alerts using the wizard to select one or more tenants or -All Tenants- to apply alerts globally, then select from the list of available alerts.

Alert Types

Within CIPP, there are two types of alerts:

• Audit Log Alert - These alerts are based on Microsoft audit logs.

• Scripted CIPP Alert - These alerts have been developed by CIPP to pull from sources other than the audit logs.

Alert Timing

• Audit Log Alerts - Processed in near real-time, but a small delay of up to 15 minutes is normal.

• Scripted CIPP Alerts - Each alert comes with a default value suggested by the CIPP team, but you can adjust it as needed. The available timings are:

  • 365 days / 1 year

  • 30 days / 1 month

  • 7 days / 1 week

  • 1 day

  • 4 hours

  • 1 hour

  • 30 minutes

Alert Delivery Methods

• Webhook - This will deliver a JSON payload to the webhook configured in CIPP Settings.
• PSA - This will deliver a formatted payload to the configured PSA in CIPP Settings.
• Email - This will deliver an HTML-formatted table to the email address provided in CIPP Settings.

Available Scripted CIPP Alerts

• Alert on users without any form of MFA

• Alert on admins without any form of MFA

• Alert on tenants without a Conditional Access policy, while having Conditional Access licensing available.

• Alert on changed admin Passwords

• Alert on licensed users that have not logged in for 90 days

• Alert if Entra Connect sync is enabled and has not run in the last X hours

• Alert on % mailbox quota used

• Alert on % SharePoint quota used

• Alert on licenses expiring in 30 days

• Alert on new apps in the application approval list

• Alert on Security Defaults automatic enablement

• Alert if Defender is not running (Tenant must be on-boarded in Lighthouse)

• Alert on Defender Malware found (Tenant must be on-boarded in Lighthouse)

• Alert on new Defender Incidents found

• Alert on unused licenses

• Alert on overused licenses

• Alert on Entra ID P1/P2 license over-utilization

• Alert on expiring application secrets

• Alert on new Apple Business Manager terms

• Alert on expiring application certificates

• Alert on expiring APN certificates

• Alert on expiring VPP tokens

• Alert on expiring DEP tokens

• Alert on soft deleted mailboxes

• Alert on device compliance issues

• Alert on (new) potentially breached passwords. Generates an alert if a password is found to be breached.

• Alert on Huntress Rogue Apps detected

• Alert when Tenant External Recipient Rate Limit exceeds X %

Available Template Audit Log Alerts

• A new Inbox rule is created

• A new Inbox rule is created that forwards e-mails to the RSS feeds folder

• A new Inbox rule is created that forwards e-mails to a different email address

• A new Inbox rule is created that redirects e-mails to a different email address

• A existing Inbox rule is edited

• A existing Inbox rule is edited that forwards e-mails to the RSS feeds folder

• A existing Inbox rule is edited that forwards e-mails to a different email address

• A existing Inbox rule is edited that redirects e-mails to a different email address

• A user has been added to an admin role

• A user sessions have been revoked

• A users MFA has been disabled

• A user has been removed from a role

• A user password has been reset

• A user has logged in from a location not in the input list

• A service principal has been created

• A service principal has been removed

• A user has logged in a using a known VPN, Proxy, Or anonymizer

• A user has logged in a using a known hosting provider IP

Example Usage

You might want to be alerted when a particular account logs into one of your tenants. For example, Global Admins or break glass accounts. This is relatively simple if you have consistent naming across your tenants i.e. [e-mail]

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Create an Audit log alert

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In the tenant selector, select All Tenants

Selecting All Tenants will allow you to optionally exclude tenants from the alert

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Select Azure AD as the log source

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Select "Operation" as the When property

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Select "Equals To" as the is property

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In the unput field select "A user logged in"

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Add an extra set of variables

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Select "Username" as the When property

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Select Like as the is property

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Enter the username to test for across all tenants i.e. mylovelybreakglassaccount@* (Note the * after the @ to match all domains)

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Choose the action(s) you want and save the alert.

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