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by antoncohen 4096 days ago
Looks awesome, thanks for making this!

osquery has two RFCs related to backend infrastructure[1] and distributed queries[2]. Have you looked at their proposals? How do you think Envdb compares?

I'm curious about the choice of wrapping osquery instead of implementing a logger plugin[3]. Was it easier to implement and deploy as a wrapper?

[1] https://github.com/facebook/osquery/issues/881

[2] https://github.com/facebook/osquery/issues/201

[3] https://github.com/facebook/osquery/wiki/registering-logger-...

2 comments

Yea, I looked at them. EnvDB has plans to extend past just using osquery. Work could be done to connect deeper or use libosquery directly. I chose to wrap it and plan to build a plugin system for wrapping other processes. It would make wrapping other stuff to conform to a sql question/answer model easier and faster to implement imho. (either way.. whatever they add wont break envdb ;) hehe)
I had not seen these issues, but I think envdb will be taken as an interesting PoC at the very least of how distributed queries could work.