Description
Tenable.ad connector allows to export Tenable.ad Indicators of Exposures, trailflow and Indicators of Attacks logs to Azure Sentinel in real time.
It provides a data parser to manipulate the logs more easily. The different workbooks ease your Active Directory monitoring and provide different ways to visualize the data. The analytic templates allow to automate responses regarding different events, exposures, or attacks.
- Declared status
- 1
- Declared author / publisher
- Tenable
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Data types
Declared permissions
read and write permissions are required.
Workspace
Workspace
read permissions to shared keys for the workspace are required. [See the documentation to learn more about workspace keys](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/platform/agent-windows#obtain-workspace-id-and-key).
Keys
Workspace
Access to Tenable.ad Configuration
Permissions to configure syslog alerting engine
Connector instructions
Content published in the repository. Refer to the original file for all parameters.
>This data connector depends on a parser based on a Kusto Function to work as expected. [Follow these steps](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tenable/Azure-Sentinel/Tenable.ad-connector/Solutions/TenableAD/Parsers/afad_parser.kql) to create the Kusto Functions alias, **afad_parser**
1. Configure the Syslog server
You will first need a **linux Syslog** server that Tenable.ad will send logs to. Typically you can run **rsyslog** on **Ubuntu**.
You can then configure this server as you wish, but it is recommended to be able to output Tenable.ad logs in a separate file.
Configure rsyslog to accept logs from your Tenable.ad IP address.:
```shell
sudo -i
# Set Tenable.ad source IP address
export TENABLE_AD_IP={Enter your IP address}
# Create rsyslog configuration file
cat > /etc/rsyslog.d/80-tenable.conf << EOF
\$ModLoad imudp
\$UDPServerRun 514
\$ModLoad imtcp
\$InputTCPServerRun 514
\$AllowedSender TCP, 127.0.0.1, $TENABLE_AD_IP
\$AllowedSender UDP, 127.0.0.1, $TENABLE_AD_IP
\$template MsgTemplate,"%TIMESTAMP:::date-rfc3339% %HOSTNAME% %programname%[%procid%]:%msg%\n"
\$template remote-incoming-logs, "/var/log/%PROGRAMNAME%.log"
*.* ?remote-incoming-logs;MsgTemplate
EOF
# Restart rsyslog
systemctl restart rsyslog
```
2. Install and onboard the Microsoft agent for Linux
The OMS agent will receive the Tenable.ad syslog events and publish it in Sentinel :
Choose where to install the agent:
Install agent on Azure Linux Virtual Machine
Select the machine to install the agent on and then click **Connect**.
Install agent on a non-Azure Linux Machine
Download the agent on the relevant machine and follow the instructions.
3. Check agent logs on the Syslog server
```shell
tail -f /var/opt/microsoft/omsagent/log/omsagent.log
```
4. Configure Tenable.ad to send logs to your Syslog server
On your **Tenable.ad** portal, go to *System*, *Configuration* and then *Syslog*.
From there you can create a new Syslog alert toward your Syslog server.
Once this is done, check that the logs are correctly gathered on your server in a separate file (to do this, you can use the *Test the configuration* button in the Syslog alert configuration in Tenable.ad).
If you used the Quickstart template, the Syslog server will by default listen on port 514 in UDP and 1514 in TCP, without TLS.
5. Configure the custom logs
Configure the agent to collect the logs.
1. In Sentinel, go to **Configuration** -> **Settings** -> **Workspace settings** -> **Custom logs**.
2. Click **Add custom log**.
3. Upload a sample Tenable.ad.log Syslog file from the **Linux** machine running the **Syslog** server and click **Next**
4. Set the record delimiter to **New Line** if not already the case and click **Next**.
5. Select **Linux** and enter the file path to the **Syslog** file, click **+** then **Next**. The default location of the file is `/var/log/Tenable.ad.log` if you have a Tenable version <3.1.0, you must also add this linux file location `/var/log/AlsidForAD.log`.
6. Set the **Name** to *Tenable_ad_CL* (Azure automatically adds *_CL* at the end of the name, there must be only one, make sure the name is not *Tenable_ad_CL_CL*).
7. Click **Next**, you will see a resume, then click **Create**
6. Enjoy !
> You should now be able to receive logs in the *Tenable_ad_CL* table, logs data can be parse using the **afad_parser()** function, used by all query samples, workbooks and analytic templates.
Related content
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Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
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Tenable.ad
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Solutions/TenableAD/Data Connectors/Tenable.ad.jsonsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC