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DDoS Attack IP Addresses - PPS Threshold

Description

Identifies IP addresses that generates maximal traffic rate over 10k PPS during DDoS attack mitigation
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.1
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
2h
Query period
2h
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

AzureDiagnostics 
| where ResourceType == 'PUBLICIPADDRESSES' and Category == "DDoSMitigationFlowLogs"
//sample rate of mitigation device 1:1000 so the PPS of the source is estimated to be x1000.
| summarize PPS = 1000 * count() by destPublicIpAddress_s, sec = bin(TimeGenerated, 1s), sourcePublicIpAddress_s
| summarize maxPPS = max(PPS) by destPublicIpAddress_s, sourcePublicIpAddress_s
| order by destPublicIpAddress_s, maxPPS desc
| where maxPPS > 10000

Declared entities

IP

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
6e76fd9d-8104-41eb-bad3-26054a3ad5f0
Additional source files 2Solutions/Azure DDoS Protection/Analytic Rules/AttackSourcesPPSThreshold.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Azure DDoS Protection/Data/Solution_AzureDDoSProtection.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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