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Add a customer guide with a shorter path to investigating a sign-in or creating a first alert:

  1. Choose the tenant and get access.
  2. Find and understand one sign-in. Stop here if you only need to investigate a problem.
  3. Export logs only if you want ongoing monitoring.
  4. Check the data, choose an official query, and establish a baseline.
  5. Create the first alert and connect its notifications.
  6. Test safely and leave the setup ready for your team.

Advanced tenant setup, query details, additional alert types, Workbooks, and operational guidance are now in an optional reference section. The comparable first-alert path is reduced from 4,661 to 1,595 words; the supporting information remains available rather than being discarded.

The guide keeps important checks in the main path: tenant/app scope, the external-tenant setup branch, permissions, missing data, correct count/window settings, alert identity access, recipient verification, and safe testing. It distinguishes sign-in outcomes from OTP delivery or provider failure and uses official query links instead of inline KQL samples.

Two official screenshots remain beside the relevant steps, with source links and short copyright credits. There is no separate screenshot notice or repeated permission banner.

Review and verification

The revised beginner path was read continuously for clarity. All 18 previous anchors remain available through headings or aliases; 373 local targets and 164 anchor references pass. Both screenshots and the numbered steps render correctly, and the official references are preserved.

This revision changes only the guide. The overall PR changes documentation and images, not runtime or infrastructure code. No live Azure/Kusto queries, deployments, provider sends, or monitoring changes were performed.

Reviewed head: 25544c0. Open for review; no merge requested.

Final clarity check

Three passes covered the beginner sequence, instruction/link accuracy, and wording. The final edits explain workspace, KQL, baseline, and action group at first use; make the first combined alert's Count/Total/Greater than choices explicit; and replace process commentary with a short transition to the optional reference. The guide still contains no inline query samples. Local links, aliases, and images remain valid.

Hou Chi Chan and others added 8 commits October 13, 2026 11:10
Document tenant log export, scoped KQL, workbooks, scheduled alerts, safe validation and investigation limits.

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: f1451aca-6f84-41e6-9baf-cec42e36da6e
Replace inline KQL and example thresholds with official query sources, illustrated portal references, detailed numbered customer steps and completion checks. Clarify query adaptation, alert measurement and MFA audit template scope.

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: f1451aca-6f84-41e6-9baf-cec42e36da6e
Add two whole unaltered official screenshots beside diagnostic-settings and Authentication Details steps, with example-only captions, pinned provenance, explicit screenshot permission and source license notice.

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: f1451aca-6f84-41e6-9baf-cec42e36da6e
Lighten repetitive checkpoints and administrator wording while preserving numbered portal steps, technical limits, source links and permitted screenshot attribution.

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: f1451aca-6f84-41e6-9baf-cec42e36da6e
Remove repeated permission wording and standalone Microsoft-only notice. Keep original screenshot source links and brief copyright attribution in captions; preserve root license and image bytes.

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: f1451aca-6f84-41e6-9baf-cec42e36da6e
Start with portal investigation and an early stopping point; move advanced setup, query, risk, collection, Workbook and data-management detail to optional reference sections. Preserve sources, anchor aliases, original screenshots and essential alert safety checks.

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: f1451aca-6f84-41e6-9baf-cec42e36da6e
Explain workspace, KQL, baseline and action group at first use. Make the first combined failure-count alert settings definitive and finish with a conditional readiness transition.

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: f1451aca-6f84-41e6-9baf-cec42e36da6e
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: f1451aca-6f84-41e6-9baf-cec42e36da6e
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Hou (SciencePotato) merged commit 96b0e21 into Azure-Samples:main Oct 13, 2026
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