Sentinel Saturdays: Automating the common tasks

Introduction

If you find yourself performing the same response steps over and over, it’s time to bring Playbooks into your workflow. Microsoft Sentinel Playbooks, powered by Logic Apps, let you automate repetitive tasks like enrichment, notifications, and ticketing so you can focus on higher-value analysis.

But how?

Here’s how to set up your first Playbook:

1. Go to Automation in Sentinel and select Create > Playbook.
2. In the Logic App Designer, choose a trigger such as When an incident is created.
3. Add actions to enrich alerts, send Teams notifications, or even open a ticket on your ITSM platform.
4. Test the Playbook using the Run Trigger option to confirm it behaves as expected.
5. Finally, link the Playbook to your analytic rule or incident automation settings.

The result? Faster triage, consistent responses, and fewer manual steps. You can use these automations to quickly enrich incidents, handle initial triage and even to dynamically notify incident response teams as required.

Call to Action

Create a simple Playbook this weekend to automate one of your routine SOC tasks. Share your use cases and favourite automations. Let’s see how far we can push Sentinel’s built-in orchestration power.