Activity Log Alert should be enabled

High Azure General activitylogalerts-activity-log-alert-enabled

Applies to

Microsoft.Insights/activityLogAlerts

What CGPulse checks

A resource passes this rule when enabled must equal true. Anything else is reported as a finding with the evaluated property value attached as evidence.

How to fix it

Enable the activity log alert to detect critical subscription-level security events. In Azure Portal: Monitor > Alerts > Activity log alerts > enable the rule. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/activity-log-alerts

CLI

az monitor activity-log alert update --ids "{id}" --enabled true

Terraform

resource "azurerm_monitor_activity_log_alert" "{name}" {
  name                = "{name}"
  resource_group_name = "{rg}"
  enabled             = true
  scopes              = ["<subscription-id>"]
  criteria {
    category = "Administrative"
  }
}

Compliance frameworks

Cloud Security: Azure Foundations

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