Description
Windows Firewall is a Microsoft Windows application that filters information coming to your system from the internet and blocking potentially harmful programs. The firewall software blocks most programs from communicating through the firewall. To stream your Windows Firewall application logs collected from your machines, use the Azure Monitor agent (AMA) to stream those logs to the Microsoft Sentinel workspace.
A configured data collection endpoint (DCE) is required to be linked with the data collection rule (DCR) created for the AMA to collect logs. For this connector, a DCE is automatically created in the same region as the workspace. If you already use a DCE stored in the same region, it's possible to change the default created DCE and use your existing one through the API. DCEs can be located in your resources with **SentinelDCE** prefix in the resource name.
For more information, see the following articles:
- [Data collection endpoints in Azure Monitor](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/essentials/data-collection-endpoint-overview?tabs=portal)
- [Microsoft Sentinel documentation](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2228623&wt.mc_id=sentinel_dataconnectordocs_content_cnl_csasci)
- Declared status
- 1
- Declared author / publisher
- Microsoft
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Data types
Declared permissions
read and write permissions.
Workspace data sources
Workspace
To collect data from non-Azure VMs, they must have Azure Arc installed and enabled. [Learn more](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/agents/azure-monitor-agent-install?tabs=ARMAgentPowerShell,PowerShellWindows,PowerShellWindowsArc,CLIWindows,CLIWindowsArc)
Connector instructions
Content published in the repository. Refer to the original file for all parameters.
Enable data collection rule
> Windows Firewall events are collected only from Windows agents.
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC