Open-source software organization

Aligning open-source values with cross-platform reliability

A global open-source software organization managing a fleet of over 1,500 devices required a solution that respected privacy and offered equal depth for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

At a glance

• Endpoints: 1,556 (Mac, Windows, and Linux).
• Primary requirement: True multi-OS support and open-source core.
• Key integrations: Splunk and Google BigQuery.
• Previous solution: Legacy tools that treated Linux as a "second-class citizen".

The challenge: management silos

The team lacked a unified solution for remote wipe and deep logging across their diverse OS environment. Linux servers and BYOD units were major blind spots with limited compliance visibility.

The solution: cultural acceptance

Fleet’s open-source nature aligned with their organizational values, easing cultural acceptance and reducing pushback on MDM adoption. They used GitOps and osquery to implement real-time compliance checks as code.

The results: revolutionized threat monitoring

• Minutes vs. days: Response times to new vulnerabilities shifted from days to minutes through real-time visibility and targeted patching.
• Automated reporting: The team uses the API to programmatically track fleet-maintained app versions and patch compliance.
• Unified ecosystem: Streaming telemetry into Splunk and BigQuery allowed them to correlate endpoint events with broader infrastructure logs.