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Workbooks ​

Beacon includes two Azure Monitor Workbooks for monitoring alerts and system health. These are automatically created as part of the Azure deployment.

Beacon Alerts ​

The alerts workbook provides an operational overview of all alerts generated by Beacon across client tenants.

Beacon Alerts Workbook

Parameters ​

  • Time Range: Filter by last 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days
  • Client Tenant: Multi-select to scope the view to specific client tenants

Summary Tiles ​

Four summary tiles at the top of the workbook show counts for the selected time range:

  • Total Alerts: Total number of alerts generated
  • Critical Alerts: Count of alerts with Critical severity
  • Clients Affected: Number of distinct client tenants with alerts
  • Unique Targets: Number of distinct target users/resources across alerts

Charts ​

  • Alerts Over Time: Bar chart showing alert volume
  • Severity Breakdown: Tile view breaking down alert counts by severity level
  • Top 8 Clients by Alert Volume: Tile view of the clients generating the most alerts

Recent Alerts Table ​

A detailed table showing the 100 most recent alerts with the following columns:

  • TimeGenerated, ClientTenantName, RuleName, Actor, Target, Severity, SourceType, RawEventSummary

Beacon System ​

The system workbook provides visibility into the operational health of the Beacon deployment itself.

Beacon System Workbook

A text section at the top displays the admin consent URL template used to onboard new client tenants.

Synced Tenants ​

A table showing the latest sync status for each client tenant:

  • TenantName / TenantId: The client tenant
  • LastSync: Timestamp of the most recent sync
  • Status: Color-coded status
  • Message: Last sync result message
  • Duration: Last sync duration

System Events ​

A table of the 100 most recent system-level log entries.

  • TimeGenerated: Timestamp
  • Status: Color-coded status
  • Message: Event description
  • ClientTenantName / ClientTenantId: Associated tenant (if applicable)


WARNING

These workbooks are overwritten when updating Beacon. If you want to customize the dashboards, create a new workbook rather than modifying the included ones.