Configure Microsoft Entra ID with Azure Event Hubs for Arctic Wolf monitoring
You can configure Microsoft Entra ID® with Azure Event Hubs to send the necessary logs to Arctic Wolf® for security monitoring.
This integration is recommended to reduce latency if your organization generates high volumes of Microsoft Entra ID security logs.
To avoid data loss, Arctic Wolf integrations using Azure Event Hubs must have exclusive use of the default and replay consumer groups created as part of the integration.
If any other application uses the same consumer groups to consume data from the same event hub as Arctic Wolf integrations, the Arctic Wolf integrations can't collect data. For more information on Azure Event Hubs consumer groups, see Azure Event Hubs documentation.
These resources are required:
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An Azure subscription with appropriate permissions to:
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Create and configure Azure Event Hubs resources
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Register applications in Microsoft Entra ID
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Azure Standard tier license or higher
Note:The Basic tier does not support the Kafka protocol for Event Hubs. For more information, see Azure Event Hubs quotas and limits.
These actions are required:
- Configure one of these integrations:
- Notify your Concierge Security® Team (CST) that you have completed the configuration.
- Set a reminder to renew the client secret before it expires to maintain continuous monitoring.
- Review the Event Hubs metrics in the Azure portal to verify that events are being ingested successfully.
Create an Azure Event Hubs namespace
Create an event hub for Microsoft Entra ID
Create a replay consumer group
In the rare event of a system outage that prevents the successful ingestion of logs, Arctic Wolf can implement a replay function that ingests logs from a specific time window. In order to prevent conflicts with the ongoing ingestion of new logs, you must create a second consumer group that can be used for the replay functionality.
- Sign in to the Microsoft Azure portal with administrator permissions.
- In the search field, search for and click Event Hubs.
- Click the Event Hubs namespace that you created in Create an Azure Event Hubs namespace.
- Click the Overview tab.
- Click the event hub that you created in Create an Azure Event Hubs namespace.
- In the navigation menu, click Entities, and then click Consumer groups.
- Click + Consumer group.
- In the Create consumer group window, enter a unique and descriptive name for the replay group. For example, entra-id-replay. The name must start and end with a letter or number and can only contain letters, numbers, periods, hyphens, and underscores.
- Click Create.
- Copy the consumer group name to a safe, encrypted location to provide to Arctic Wolf later.