osquery
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- BSD 3-clause
- Programming languages
- C++, Python
- Latest release
- 5.12.1
- Latest release date
Project health
How it works
The osquery tool collects data from the system and makes them available as a database. By giving it database like queries you can extract data from the system and use that together with other tools.
Usage and audience
osquery is commonly used for compliance testing, information gathering, or security monitoring. Target users for this tool are auditors, pentesters, security professionals, and system administrators.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 100 contributors
- + More than 9000 stars
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Supported by a large company
Installation
Supported operating systems
Osquery is known to work on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.
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