Send data to Azure Sentinel Github-action

A GitHub action that sends data to Azure Sentinel from a previous GitHub action. It can either take as inputs a file name or input data that is either plain text or json format. A Sentinel log_type or table name will need to be specified when using the action and the passed in data will be stored in the indicated table name.

Usage

     - name: "Post results to Sentinel"
        uses: cds-snc/sentinel-forward-data-action@main
        with:
          file_name: file-name.json
          input_data: "Data to be sent to Sentinel"
          log_type: "TestData_CL"
          log_analytics_workspace_id: ${{ secrets.LOG_ANALYTICS_WORKSPACE_ID }}
          log_analytics_workspace_key: ${{ secrets.LOG_ANALYTICS_WORKSPACE_KEY }}

Action inputs

All inputs except log_type, log_analytics_workspace_id and log_analytics_workspace_key are optional.

Name	Description	Mandatory
file_name	File name that will be read by the github action and each line will be processed and sent to Sentinel. The file can be either text or json format.	False
input_data	Input data to be sent to Sentinel. The data can be either text or json format.	False
log_type	The table name in Sentinel that the data will be stored at.	True
log_analytics_workspace_id	Sentinel workspace id that is currently stored in GitHub secrets.	True
log_analytics_workspace_key	Sentinel workspace key which is currently stored in GitHub secrets.	True

Action Outputs

Name	Description	Default
None	This action does not provide outputs

A sample GitHub action that uses a chained functionality can be found in .github/workflows/test_chained_actions_sentinel_forward.yml