Telemetry
Which log events an organization needs to collect, per host role and log source, and why: the ATT&CK techniques each event helps detect, the vendor rules that depend on it, the standards that name it, and what collecting it costs. Built from public sources only.
What you run
Choose what you run and the events to collect appear below: the minimum set per role, then what is recommended, with the rules your SIEM can run on each, the standards that name it, and what your EDR does and does not replace. Your answers travel in the page's address and nowhere else, so the link can be shared or printed.
Choose at least one kind of host, tenant or sensor above, and the events to collect appear here.
Roles
A role is a kind of host or tenant. Each role page lists the events that meet the minimum bar for it and the events recommended beyond that, with how to enable each one.
Windows (workstation, member server, domain controller)
macOS
AWS
Azure (platform and Entra ID)
Microsoft 365
Google Cloud (and Google Workspace)
Kubernetes
Container runtimes (Docker, containerd)
VMware ESXi / vCenter
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Network devices and network sensors
Identity providers and SaaS (Okta, GitHub, Slack, ...)
Log sources
98 log sources across 15 host types. A source page shows its licensing, the techniques and rules that depend on it, and every event it carries.
Windows (workstation, member server, domain controller)
- Active Directory object/replication telemetry (Admon, directory service logs)
- Windows Application event log
- AppLocker logs
- AppX deployment/packaging logs
- BITS client log
- CAPI2 log
- Code Integrity / WDAC log
- Microsoft Defender Antivirus operational log
- DHCP Server log
- DNS Client events
- DNS Server logs
- EDR / XDR telemetry (Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Elastic Defend, Endgame)
- ETW providers (not persisted to a log by default)
- Windows Firewall log
- IIS logs
- Kerberos client/KDC logs
- NTLM operational log
- Other Windows event channels
- PowerShell logging
- Print Service logs
- Windows Security event log
- SMB client/server logs
- Sysmon
- Windows System event log
- Task Scheduler operational log
- Remote Desktop logs
- WMI Activity log
Linux
macOS
AWS
Azure (platform and Entra ID)
Microsoft 365
Google Cloud (and Google Workspace)
Kubernetes
Container runtimes (Docker, containerd)
VMware ESXi / vCenter
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
EDR sensors (product telemetry, cross-platform)
Network devices and network sensors
Identity providers and SaaS (Okta, GitHub, Slack, ...)
Other / unclassified
How it is built
The method page states the criteria and thresholds, all fixed before any count was made. The references page names every source with its version, the date it was read and its license.