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title: Microsoft Defender for Open-Source Relational Databases should be enabled
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# Microsoft Defender for Open-Source Relational Databases should be enabled
 
## Description{% #description %}

Microsoft Defender for open-source relational databases extends threat detection to Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, alerting on brute force, SQL injection, and unusual access patterns. Enabling this plan at the *Standard* tier ensures these workloads receive runtime monitoring.

## Remediation{% #remediation %}

See [Protect your databases with Defender for Databases](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/tutorial-enable-databases-plan) for step-by-step instructions on enabling the open-source relational databases plan.