Show HN: Envdb – Ask your environment questions

Looks awesome, thanks for making this!<p>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?<p>I&#x27;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?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;osquery&#x2F;issues&#x2F;881" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;osquery&#x2F;issues&#x2F;881</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;osquery&#x2F;issues&#x2F;201" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;osquery&#x2F;issues&#x2F;201</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;osquery&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;registering-logger-plugins" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;osquery&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;registering-logger-...</a>

I saw this on reddit yesterday and it is definitely intriguing..<p>However, I&#x27;m still trying to understand what the actual real-world use-case is for this tool. Can any of you enlighten me?<p>Also, zero unit tests makes me sad. The end product and codebase can be so much better when you start with a little testing.

Neat - in production we use Foreman which gathers facts from our 300~ servers every 15 minutes when puppet runs.<p>This could be a nice little alternative for fact finding on smaller deployments or for headless nodes.