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What is osquery?

osquery allows you to query your operating system using SQL to explore system data.

How do I get started?

You can download osquery from their downloads page. Once you get everything set up, including getting the osqueryd daemon running (You may need to look into the documentation for this), you're almost ready to start writing queries!

Start the interactive osquery console, osqueryi

What queries could I write?

First, you may want to look at the tables that osquery has available on their website. Note that some of these tables are exclusive to specific operating systems. Also, you can see a list of tables that are available to you by typing .tables into the interactive shell. You can see the available columns for a table within the interactive shell by typing .schema table_name into the interactive shell. Queries are written in SQL and you may have as many clauses as you like, just be sure to terminate your query with a semicolon. Lets get started with a query to see information about our memory. This table can only be used on Linux.

SELECT *
FROM memory_info;

Well that's cool, but you probably don't care about half of that information, and you probably don't want to convert bytes into something meaningful in your head.

SELECT
  (memory_total / POWER(2, 30))
  AS 'Total memory (GiB)',
  (memory_free / POWER(2, 30))
  AS 'Free memory (GiB)'
FROM memory_info;

If I write a query for one OS, could I use it on another OS as well?

Yes! As long as the table that you're writing the query for is available for both operating systems. For example, here's a couple queries that can be used on any platform.

View all users:

SELECT username, type
FROM users;

View all listening ports:

SELECT *
FROM listening_ports;

View OS information:

SELECT name, version, major,
  platform, platform_like
FROM os_version;

View processes without an executable on the disk:

SELECT pid, name, path
FROM processes
WHERE on_disk = 0;

What else can osquery do?

  • Install extensions to give osquery some extra capabilities
  • Schedule queries to monitor your operating system
  • Monitor file integrity