Microsoft Entra Session Replay: Total Visibility into Authentication Sessions
The log plays back like a crime scene tape. Every click, every API call, every identity token—captured, precise, undeniable. This is Microsoft Entra Session Replay. It turns the ephemeral trail of user activity into a full, inspectable timeline, letting you reconstruct exactly what happened inside your identity system.
Microsoft Entra Session Replay is not a vague audit log. It’s a forensic-grade record of authentication sessions. It allows you to capture key details: user sign-ins, token issuance, conditional access decisions, MFA prompts, refresh token use, and federated identity exchanges. With Session Replay, you can trace anomalies from root cause to impact without guesswork.
Running in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), Session Replay integrates tightly with your existing conditional access policies. Each replay event can include context such as device posture, IP reputation, session duration, and every identity claim exchanged. This is critical for incident response, compliance audits, and threat hunting.
Technical benefits cluster around three core uses:
- Security incident reconstruction. Rewind a sequence to see if credentials were reused, elevated privileges granted, or unusual session chaining occurred after login.
- Authentication workflow optimization. Spot friction points in MFA or passwordless flows by seeing how real sessions progress.
- Compliance evidence. Prove that access controls enforced by Microsoft Entra were applied correctly, by providing full replay logs to auditors.
Session Replay uses standardized logging formats, making it ingestible by SIEMs like Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk without transformation. The API endpoints allow engineers to query sessions by user ID, client app, or time range, enabling tight integration with automation pipelines.
There’s no guesswork, no partial data. Just total visibility into Microsoft Entra authentication flows, down to the token refresh and claim issuance. When identity is your perimeter, Session Replay is the microscope that shows every weakness before attackers do.
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