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Verify the status of firewalls and drive encryption.See if unwanted or malicious applications or extensions are running.Osquery-a-tool-to-easily-ask-questions-about-operating-systems With osquery, you can easily monitor devices for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

So, we’ve established that osquery is a powerful, flexible tool that uses SQL to get real-time data to monitor and manage devices. 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.

And lastly, it’s a breath of fresh air compared to other operating system monitoring tools, which often have complicated learning curves and consume many system resources.

It’s a single-agent solution for meeting many of the needs of security and admin teams - who typically have to deploy and manage several proprietary and expensive device management tools.

It’s open-source and easy to use by folks of varying technical skill levels.

It gives access to the underlying state of an operating system.

Osquery is compatible with any operating system and unifies how we ask questions across Windows, macOS, and Linux distributions like Ubuntu or Debian.But what does that mean? In short, osquery allows you to ask questions about your operating system. 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. Osquery: a tool to easily ask questions about operating systems