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osquery

Expose the operating system as a relational database (project of Linux Foundation)
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What is osquery?

osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. This allows you to write SQL-based queries to explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables represent abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open network connections, browser plugins, hardware events or file hashes.
osquery is a tool in the Desktop Querying Tools category of a tech stack.
osquery is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to osquery's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses osquery?

Companies
3 companies reportedly use osquery in their tech stacks, including Passbase, Wuha, and MistNet.

Developers
23 developers on StackShare have stated that they use osquery.

osquery Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to osquery?
Ossec
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ELK
It is the acronym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a server‑side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to a "stash" like Elasticsearch. Kibana lets users visualize data with charts and graphs in Elasticsearch.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
Wazuh
It is a free, open source and enterprise-ready security monitoring solution for threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response and compliance.
Sysdig
Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Sysdig is scriptable in Lua and includes a command line interface and a powerful interactive UI, csysdig, that runs in your terminal. Think of sysdig as strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + awesome sauce. With state of the art container visibility on top.
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osquery's Followers
62 developers follow osquery to keep up with related blogs and decisions.