Azure Resource Graph Provider

This data provider allows for a connection to the Azure Resource Graph and a way to query against the Azure Resource Graph Explorer. The data connector functions in the same way as other data connectors and uses the Kusto Query Language (KQL) and has with some subtle differences to other connectors in they way that authentication is handled.

You would use this data connector to flexibly and quickly get details on deployed Azure resources within a subscription. It allows for bulk queries on various aspects of resources and returns data in a very structured format. This makes it much more effective and efficient than getting resource specific details via the resource API.

More details about data providers in MSTICPy can be found in the documentation.

Azure Resource Graph Configuration

The provider uses the Azure configuration specified in the Azure section of the msticpyconfig.yaml.

These settings affect all Azure components.

For more information on using and configuring msticpyconfig.yaml see msticpy Package Configuration and MSTICPy Settings Editor

An example.

Azure:
  auth_methods:
  - cli
  - interactive
  cloud: global

See Azure Cloud and Authentication Settings

Loading a Query Provider for Azure Resource Graph

The provider for the Azure Resource Graph is named ResourceGraph

from msticpy.data.data_providers import QueryProvider
qry_prov = QueryProvider("ResourceGraph")

Connecting to Azure Resource Graph

Once initialized the first step in using the data provider is to authenticate. The Resource Graph provider uses MSTICPy’s Azure authentication features and you can provide a set of authentication methods when connecting. By default the provider will attempt to authenticate using credentials stored in msticpyconfig.yaml (or as environment variables) and an Azure CLI connection but this can be customized with the ‘auth_methods’ keyword.

Once successfully connected you will be presented with a “Connected” message.

qry_prov.connect(auth_methods=["cli"])
Connected

Listing available queries

As with other data providers there are a number of built-in queries with this provider. Once connected you can view the available queries with QUERY_PROVIDER.list_queries().

Alternatively you can view query details in an interactive widget with QUERY_PROVIDER.browse_queries()

For more information, see: Listing available queries.

qry_prov.list_queries()
['ResourceGraph.list_detailed_virtual_machines',
 'ResourceGraph.list_public_ips',
 'ResourceGraph.list_resources',
 'ResourceGraph.list_resources_by_api_version',
 'ResourceGraph.list_resources_by_type',
 'ResourceGraph.list_virtual_machines']

Running pre-defined query

In order to run pre-defined query, execute with the query name, e.g. QUERY_PROVIDER.ResourceGraph.QUERY_NAME(). You can pass parameters to these queries to customize them, however they will also run with default parameters if none as provider. The query browser will provide details as to what parameters are available with each query.

As with other data providers data is returned to you in a Pandas DataFrame.

For more information , refer documentation - Running a pre-defined query

qry_prov.ResourceGraph.list_resources_by_api_version()

type

apiVersion

microsoft.alertsmanagement/actionrules

2019-05-05-preview

microsoft.alertsmanagement/smartdetectoralertrules

2021-04-01

microsoft.apimanagement/service

2019-12-01

microsoft.automanage/accounts

2020-06-30-preview

microsoft.automation/automationaccounts

2018-06-30

Running an ad-hoc query

You can also define a your own KQL query for the Resource Graph and run with QUERY_PROVIDER.exec_query(QUERY)

query = "Resources | where type =~ 'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines' | take 3"
qry_prov.exec_query(query)

id

name

type

tenantId

kind

location

resourceGroup

subscriptionId

managedBy

sku

plan

zones

/subscriptions/1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47/resourceGroups/LinuxTestLab/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/RHEL77Base

RHEL77Base

microsoft.compute/virtualmachines

1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47

eastus2

linuxtestlab

1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47

/subscriptions/1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47/resourceGroups/LinuxTestLab/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/Ubuntu18ASC

Ubuntu18ASC

microsoft.compute/virtualmachines

1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47

eastus2

linuxtestlab

1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47

/subscriptions/1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47/resourceGroups/monster-island/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/GodzillaTron1

GodzillaTron1

microsoft.compute/virtualmachines

1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47

japanwest

monster-island

1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47

Note: Resource Graph queries are limited to 1000 rows of output each. If your query returns 1000 rows it is likely it has hit this limit, consider re-writing the query to return a smaller subset of data. This applies to both built in queries and ad-hoc queries.

End-to-end Example

In this example we want to take a look at all of the virtual machines we have in our environment and they get specific details including public IP on one of them:

from msticpy.data.data_providers import QueryProvider
# Initialize and connect to provider
qry_prov = QueryProvider("ResourceGraph")
qry_prov.connect()
Connected
# Get list of VMs and see how many we have
vms = qry_prov.ResourceGraph.list_virtual_machines()
print(f"Number of VMs found : {len(vms.index)}")
# Filter the query to get a smaller dataset
vms = qry_prov.ResourceGraph.list_virtual_machines(add_query_items="| where resourceGroup contains 'msticpy'")
display(vms)
# Set hostname for our next query
hostname = vms.iloc[0]['name']

Number of VMs found : 421

id

name

type

tenantId

kind

location

resourceGroup

subscriptionId

managedBy

sku

plan

zones

/subscriptions/1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47/resourceGroups/MSTICpy/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/MSTIC-DSVM

MSTIC-DSVM

microsoft.compute/virtualmachines

1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47

eastus

msticpy

1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47

[‘1’]

Now we can get details on the specific VM using its hostname.

qry_prov.ResourceGraph.list_detailed_virtual_machines(host_name=hostname)

vmId

vmName

vmSize

nicId

publicIpId

publicIpAddress

/subscriptions/1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47/resourceGroups/MSTICpy/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/MSTIC-DSVM

MSTIC-DSVM

Standard_B2s

/subscriptions/1d228542-43d3-43fa-b9f6-e2a5e3d69d47/resourceGroups/MSTICpy/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/mstic-dsvm832

/subscriptions/40dcc8bf-0478-4f3b-b275-ed0a94f2c013/resourceGroups/MSTICpy/providers/Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/MSTIC-DSVM-ip

11.11.11.111

Other Azure Resource Graph Documentation

Built-in Queries for Azure Resource Graph.

Azure Resource Graph driver API documentation