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alert: moveAlerts

Namespace: microsoft.graph.security

Move one or more alert resources to a new or existing incident.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	❌

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	SecurityData.Manage.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	SecurityData.Manage.All	Not available.

Important

For delegated access using work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role that grants the permissions required for this operation. This operation supports the following built-in roles, which provide only the least privilege necessary:

Security Operator. Can manage alerts and view, investigate, and respond to security alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. This is the least privileged role for this operation.
Security Administrator. Has permissions to manage security-related features in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, including managing security threats and alerts.

HTTP request

POST /security/alerts_v2/moveAlerts

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
alertIds	String collection	Required. The IDs of the alerts to move.
incidentId	String	Optional. The ID of the target incident. A request with `null` creates a new incident.
alertComment	String	Optional. A comment to add when moving the alerts.
newCorrelationReasons	microsoft.graph.security.correlationReason	Optional. The correlation reasons to associate with the move operation. This object is a flags enum that allows multiple values to be specified.

Response

If successful, this action returns a 200 OK response code and a microsoft.graph.security.mergeResponse object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Move alerts to an incident

Request

The following example moves two alerts to an existing incident.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/alerts_v2/moveAlerts
Content-Type: application/json

{
 "alertIds": [
 "da637551227677560813_-961444813",
 "da637551227677560813_-961444814"
 ],
 "incidentId": "2972395",
 "alertComment": "Moving alerts for investigation consolidation",
 "newCorrelationReasons": "sameAsset, temporalProximity"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Security.Alerts_v2.MicrosoftGraphSecurityMoveAlerts;
using Microsoft.Graph.Models.Security;

var requestBody = new MoveAlertsPostRequestBody
{
	AlertIds = new List<string>
	{
		"da637551227677560813_-961444813",
		"da637551227677560813_-961444814",
	},
	IncidentId = "2972395",
	AlertComment = "Moving alerts for investigation consolidation",
	NewCorrelationReasons = CorrelationReason.SameAsset | CorrelationReason.TemporalProximity,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Security.Alerts_v2.MicrosoftGraphSecurityMoveAlerts.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	 "context"
	 msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	 graphsecurity "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/security"
	 graphmodelssecurity "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models/security"
	 //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphsecurity.NewMoveAlertsPostRequestBody()
alertIds := []string {
	"da637551227677560813_-961444813",
	"da637551227677560813_-961444814",
}
requestBody.SetAlertIds(alertIds)
incidentId := "2972395"
requestBody.SetIncidentId(&incidentId) 
alertComment := "Moving alerts for investigation consolidation"
requestBody.SetAlertComment(&alertComment) 
newCorrelationReasons := graphmodels.SAMEASSET, TEMPORALPROXIMITY_CORRELATIONREASON 
requestBody.SetNewCorrelationReasons(&newCorrelationReasons) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
microsoftGraphSecurityMoveAlerts, err := graphClient.Security().Alerts_v2().MicrosoftGraphSecurityMoveAlerts().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.security.alerts_v2.microsoftgraphsecuritymovealerts.MoveAlertsPostRequestBody moveAlertsPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.security.alerts_v2.microsoftgraphsecuritymovealerts.MoveAlertsPostRequestBody();
LinkedList<String> alertIds = new LinkedList<String>();
alertIds.add("da637551227677560813_-961444813");
alertIds.add("da637551227677560813_-961444814");
moveAlertsPostRequestBody.setAlertIds(alertIds);
moveAlertsPostRequestBody.setIncidentId("2972395");
moveAlertsPostRequestBody.setAlertComment("Moving alerts for investigation consolidation");
moveAlertsPostRequestBody.setNewCorrelationReasons(EnumSet.of(com.microsoft.graph.models.security.CorrelationReason.SameAsset, com.microsoft.graph.models.security.CorrelationReason.TemporalProximity));
var result = graphClient.security().alertsV2().microsoftGraphSecurityMoveAlerts().post(moveAlertsPostRequestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const mergeResponse = {
 alertIds: [
 'da637551227677560813_-961444813',
 'da637551227677560813_-961444814'
 ],
 incidentId: '2972395',
 alertComment: 'Moving alerts for investigation consolidation',
 newCorrelationReasons: 'sameAsset, temporalProximity'
};

await client.api('/security/alerts_v2/moveAlerts')
	.post(mergeResponse);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Security\Alerts_v2\MicrosoftGraphSecurityMoveAlerts\MoveAlertsPostRequestBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Security\CorrelationReason;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new MoveAlertsPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setAlertIds(['da637551227677560813_-961444813', 'da637551227677560813_-961444814', 	]);
$requestBody->setIncidentId('2972395');
$requestBody->setAlertComment('Moving alerts for investigation consolidation');
$requestBody->setNewCorrelationReasons(new CorrelationReason('sameAsset, temporalProximity'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->security()->alerts_v2()->microsoftGraphSecurityMoveAlerts()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Security

$params = @{
	alertIds = @(
	"da637551227677560813_-961444813"
"da637551227677560813_-961444814"
)
incidentId = "2972395"
alertComment = "Moving alerts for investigation consolidation"
newCorrelationReasons = "sameAsset, temporalProximity"
}

Move-MgSecurityAlert -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.security.alerts_v2.microsoft_graph_security_move_alerts.move_alerts_post_request_body import MoveAlertsPostRequestBody
from msgraph.generated.models.correlation_reason import CorrelationReason
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = MoveAlertsPostRequestBody(
	alert_ids = [
		"da637551227677560813_-961444813",
		"da637551227677560813_-961444814",
	],
	incident_id = "2972395",
	alert_comment = "Moving alerts for investigation consolidation",
	new_correlation_reasons = CorrelationReason.SameAsset | CorrelationReason.TemporalProximity,
)

result = await graph_client.security.alerts_v2.microsoft_graph_security_move_alerts.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
 "targetIncidentId": "2972395"
}

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