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VMware ESXi - Multiple VMs stopped

Description

'Detects when multiple VMs ware stopped by user.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.3
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1h
Query period
1h
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 threshold = 5;
VMwareESXi
| where SyslogMessage has ('VmPoweredOffEvent')
| extend SrcUsername = extract(@'\[info\]\s+\[(.*?)\]', 1, SyslogMessage)
| extend DstHostname = extract(@'\[\d+\]\s+\[(.*?)\s+on', 1, SyslogMessage)
| summarize st_vm = make_set(DstHostname,200) by SrcUsername, bin(TimeGenerated, 5m)
| where array_length(st_vm) > threshold
| extend hostname = iff(array_length(st_vm) > 0, st_vm[0], "")
| extend NTDomain = tostring(split(hostname, '\\', 0)[0]), Name = tostring(split(SrcUsername, '\\', 1)[0]), HostName = tostring(split(hostname, '.', 0)[0]), DnsDomain = tostring(split(SrcUsername, '\\', 1)[0])

Declared entities

AccountHost

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

Source identifier
5fe1af14-cd40-48ff-b581-3a12a1f90785
Additional source files 2Solutions/VMWareESXi/Analytic Rules/ESXiMultipleVMStopped.yamlsource ↗Solutions/VMWareESXi/Data/Solution_VMWareESXi.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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