Facebook Open-Sources Infrastructure Monitoring Framework and Security Tool osquery

Facebook announced the open-sourcing of security tool osquery, a framework that gives engineers a different way to monitor their infrastructure.

osquery650Facebook announced the open-sourcing of security tool osquery, a framework that gives engineers a different way to monitor their infrastructure.

Mike Arpaia, Ted Reed, Mimeframe and Javier Marcos de Prado worked on osquery for Facebook, and Arpaia offered an overview of the tool in a post on the social network’s engineering blog:

Maintaining real-time insight into the current state of your infrastructure is important. At Facebook, we’ve been working on a framework called osquery, which attempts to approach the concept of low-level operating system monitoring a little differently.

osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database.

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