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VMware ESXi - Dormant VM started
Description
'Detects when dormant VM was started.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.3
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 14d
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let vm_p_off =
VMwareESXi
| where TimeGenerated > ago(14d)
| where SyslogMessage has ('VmPoweredOffEvent')
| extend DstHostname = extract(@'\[\d+\]\s+\[(.*?)\s+on', 1, SyslogMessage)
| summarize LastPowerOffTime=max(TimeGenerated) by DstHostname
| where datetime_diff('day',datetime(now),LastPowerOffTime) >= 20;
let vm_p_on =
VMwareESXi
| where TimeGenerated > ago(14d)
| where SyslogMessage has ('VmPoweredOnEvent')
| extend DstHostname = extract(@'\[\d+\]\s+\[(.*?)\s+on', 1, SyslogMessage)
| summarize LastPowerOnTime=max(TimeGenerated) by DstHostname
| where datetime_diff('day',datetime(now),LastPowerOnTime) >= 20;
let off_vms =
vm_p_on
| join (vm_p_off) on DstHostname
| where LastPowerOffTime > LastPowerOnTime
| summarize p_off_vm = make_set(DstHostname,200)
| extend k=1;
VMwareESXi
| where TimeGenerated between (ago(24h) .. datetime(now))
| where SyslogMessage has ('VmPoweredOnEvent')
| extend DstHostname = extract(@'\[\d+\]\s+\[(.*?)\s+on', 1, SyslogMessage)
| extend k=1
| join (off_vms) on k
| where p_off_vm !has DstHostname
| summarize rec_p_on = make_set(DstHostname,200)
| extend hostname = iff(array_length(rec_p_on) > 0, rec_p_on[0], "")
| extend NTDomain = tostring(split(hostname, '\\', 1)[0]), HostName = tostring(split(hostname, '.', 0)[0])
Declared entities
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
4cdcd5d8-89df-4076-a917-bc50abb9f2ab
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC