Osquery is an easy-to-use operating system monitoring tool that uses SQL to expose a device’s operating system as a highly performant relational database. But what does that mean? In short, osquery allows you to ask questions about your operating system. More than that, though:
With simple SQL statements, osquery can easily pull information about an operating system’s status and health, from something simple, such as getting the uptime data for a MacBook, or checking its battery health, to checking for vulnerabilities on your CentOS servers.
So, we’ve established that osquery is a powerful, flexible tool that uses SQL to get real-time data to monitor and manage devices. Now let’s look at some of its uses.
With osquery, you can easily monitor devices for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. osquery-a-tool-to-easily-ask-questions-about-operating-systems
Use osquery to investigate devices accurately, in real-time, and then feed your osquery data into your SIEM (Security Information and Event Manager) of choice. Incident responders can use these event logs to help them detect any digital footprints left behind by intruders and respond to threats swiftly before they become an emergency.
In the wake of Covid-19, there’s been an extremely high occurrence of breaches. Implementing Zero Trust Support teams with osquery can help them quickly diagnose issues with a specific device in their fleet.
This article is only a high-level look at what osquery is capable of. If you are interested in trying out osquery for yourself, follow the installation guides for macOS, Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD.
To deploy osquery at scale across your organization’s devices, an osquery manager, such as Fleet, is required. Fleet makes osquery easy to deploy and scales to your organization’s needs. With Fleet, you can supercharge osquery to:
Ready to give Fleet a try? Head over to our try Fleet page, and you can be up and running with a preview environment in less than 5 minutes. Or you can check out the docs to learn how to deploy Fleet across your organization.