[jasonjayr]

Something like this already exists for Windows[1]

There is apparently a standard[2] for exposing operating system objects into a schema that can have a standard query.

I don't think I've ever seen any common monitoring projects built using WMI/WBEM at their core ...

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/about-...

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/921617/is-there-somethin...

[jpcosta]

afaik one of the main motivations that led to start osquery project was precisely to have a cross platform tool to allow collecting much needed information from all your hosts in an enterprise setting

[cryptonector]

Which WMI is when you call it CIM so there's no 'W' in it. Sun had an implementation too -- it was never really Windows-specific.