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API for contributors
This document includes the Fleet API routes that are helpful when developing or contributing to Fleet.
Unlike the Fleet REST API documentation, the API routes in this document are only intended for use by the Fleet UI and fleetctl clients.
- Get queries spec
- Get query spec
- Apply queries spec
- Get packs spec
- Apply packs spec
- Get pack spec by name
- Apply team spec
- Apply labels spec
- Get labels spec
- Get label spec
- Get enroll secrets
- Modify enroll secrets
- Check live query status
- Check result store status
- Retrieve live query results (standard WebSocket API)
- Retrieve live query results (SockJS)
- Run live query by name
- Apply policies spec
Get queries spec
Returns a list of all queries in the Fleet instance. Each item returned includes the name, description, and SQL of the query.
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/queries
Parameters
None.
Example
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/queries
Default response
Status: 200
{
"specs": [
{
"name": "query1",
"description": "query",
"query": "SELECT * FROM osquery_info"
},
{
"name": "osquery_schedule",
"description": "Report performance stats for each file in the query schedule.",
"query": "select name, interval, executions, output_size, wall_time, (user_time/executions) as avg_user_time, (system_time/executions) as avg_system_time, average_memory, last_executed from osquery_schedule;"
}
]
}
Get query spec
Returns the name, description, and SQL of the query specified by name.
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/queries/{name}
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
name | string | path | Required. The name of the query. |
Example
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/queries/query1
Default response
Status: 200
{
"specs": {
"name": "query1",
"description": "query",
"query": "SELECT * FROM osquery_info"
}
}
Apply queries spec
Creates and/or modifies the queries included in the specs list. To modify an existing query, the name of the query included in specs
must already be used by an existing query. If a query with the specified name doesn't exist in Fleet, a new query will be created.
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/queries
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
specs | list | body | Required. The list of the queries to be created or modified. |
Example
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/queries
Request body
{
"specs": [
{
"name": "new_query",
"description": "This will be a new query because a query with the name 'new_query' doesn't exist in Fleet.",
"query": "SELECT * FROM osquery_info"
},
{
"name": "osquery_schedule",
"description": "This queries description and SQL will be modified because a query with the name 'osquery_schedule' exists in Fleet.",
"query": "SELECT * FROM osquery_info"
}
]
}
Default response
Status: 200
Get packs spec
Returns the specs for all packs in the Fleet instance.
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/packs
Example
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/packs
Default response
Status: 200
{
"specs": [
{
"id": 1,
"name": "pack_1",
"description": "Description",
"disabled": false,
"targets": {
"labels": ["All Hosts"],
"teams": null
},
"queries": [
{
"query": "new_query",
"name": "new_query",
"description": "",
"interval": 456,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true,
"platform": "windows",
"version": "4.5.0"
},
{
"query": "new_title_for_my_query",
"name": "new_title_for_my_query",
"description": "",
"interval": 677,
"snapshot": true,
"removed": false,
"platform": "",
"version": ""
},
{
"query": "osquery_info",
"name": "osquery_info",
"description": "",
"interval": 6667,
"snapshot": true,
"removed": false,
"platform": "",
"version": ""
},
{
"query": "query1",
"name": "query1",
"description": "",
"interval": 7767,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true,
"platform": "",
"version": ""
},
{
"query": "osquery_events",
"name": "osquery_events",
"description": "",
"interval": 454,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true,
"platform": "",
"version": ""
},
{
"query": "osquery_events",
"name": "osquery_events-1",
"description": "",
"interval": 120,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true,
"platform": "",
"version": ""
}
]
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "pack_2",
"disabled": false,
"targets": {
"labels": null,
"teams": null
},
"queries": [
{
"query": "new_query",
"name": "new_query",
"description": "",
"interval": 333,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true,
"platform": "windows",
"version": "4.5.0",
"shard": 10,
"denylist": null
}
]
}
]
}
Apply packs spec
Returns the specs for all packs in the Fleet instance.
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/packs
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
specs | list | body | Required. A list that includes the specs for each pack to be added to the Fleet instance. |
Example
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/packs
Request body
{
"specs": [
{
"id": 1,
"name": "pack_1",
"description": "Description",
"disabled": false,
"targets": {
"labels": ["All Hosts"],
"teams": null
},
"queries": [
{
"query": "new_query",
"name": "new_query",
"description": "",
"interval": 456,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true
},
{
"query": "new_title_for_my_query",
"name": "new_title_for_my_query",
"description": "",
"interval": 677,
"snapshot": true,
"removed": false
},
{
"query": "osquery_info",
"name": "osquery_info",
"description": "",
"interval": 6667,
"snapshot": true,
"removed": false
},
{
"query": "query1",
"name": "query1",
"description": "",
"interval": 7767,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true
},
{
"query": "osquery_events",
"name": "osquery_events",
"description": "",
"interval": 454,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true
},
{
"query": "osquery_events",
"name": "osquery_events-1",
"description": "",
"interval": 120,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true
}
]
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "pack_2",
"disabled": false,
"targets": {
"labels": null,
"teams": null
},
"queries": [
{
"query": "new_query",
"name": "new_query",
"description": "",
"interval": 333,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true,
"platform": "windows"
}
]
}
]
}
Default response
Status: 200
Get pack spec by name
Returns the spec for the specified pack by pack name.
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/packs/{name}
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
name | string | path | Required. The pack's name. |
Example
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/packs/pack_1
Default response
Status: 200
{
"specs": {
"id": 15,
"name": "pack_1",
"description": "Description",
"disabled": false,
"targets": {
"labels": ["All Hosts"],
"teams": null
},
"queries": [
{
"query": "new_title_for_my_query",
"name": "new_title_for_my_query",
"description": "",
"interval": 677,
"snapshot": true,
"removed": false,
"platform": "",
"version": ""
},
{
"query": "osquery_info",
"name": "osquery_info",
"description": "",
"interval": 6667,
"snapshot": true,
"removed": false,
"platform": "",
"version": ""
},
{
"query": "query1",
"name": "query1",
"description": "",
"interval": 7767,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true,
"platform": "",
"version": ""
},
{
"query": "osquery_events",
"name": "osquery_events",
"description": "",
"interval": 454,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true,
"platform": "",
"version": ""
},
{
"query": "osquery_events",
"name": "osquery_events-1",
"description": "",
"interval": 120,
"snapshot": false,
"removed": true,
"platform": "",
"version": ""
}
]
}
}
Apply team spec
Available in Fleet Premium
If the name
specified is associated with an existing team, this API route, completely replaces this team's existing agent_options
and secrets
with those that are specified.
If the name
is not already associated with an existing team, this API route creates a new team with the specified name
, agent_options
, and secrets
.
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/teams
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
name | string | body | Required. The team's name. |
agent_options | string | body | Required. The agent options spec that is applied to the hosts assigned to the specified to team. These agent agent options completely override the global agent options specified in the GET /api/v1/fleet/config API route |
secrets | list | body | Required. A list of plain text strings used as the enroll secrets. |
Example
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/teams
Request body
{
"specs": [
{
"name": "Client Platform Engineering",
"agent_options": {
"spec": {
"config": {
"options": {
"logger_plugin": "tls",
"pack_delimiter": "/",
"logger_tls_period": 10,
"distributed_plugin": "tls",
"disable_distributed": false,
"logger_tls_endpoint": "/api/v1/osquery/log",
"distributed_interval": 10,
"distributed_tls_max_attempts": 3
},
"decorators": {
"load": [
"SELECT uuid AS host_uuid FROM system_info;",
"SELECT hostname AS hostname FROM system_info;"
]
}
},
"overrides": {}
}
},
"secrets": [
{
"secret": "fTp52/twaxBU6gIi0J6PHp8o5Sm1k1kn"
},
{
"secret": "bhD5kiX2J+KBgZSk118qO61ZIdX/v8On"
}
]
}
]
}
Default response
Status: 200
Apply labels spec
Applies the supplied labels specs to Fleet. Each label requires the name
, and label_membership_type
properties.
If the label_membership_type
is set to dynamic
, the query
property must also be specified with the value set to a query in SQL syntax.
If the label_membership_type
is set to manual
, the hosts
property must also be specified with the value set to a list of hostnames.
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/labels
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
specs | list | path | A list of the label to apply. Each label requires the name , query , and label_membership_type properties |
Example
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/labels
Request body
{
"specs": [
{
"name": "Ubuntu",
"description": "Filters ubuntu hosts",
"query": "select 1 from os_version where platform = 'ubuntu';",
"label_membership_type": "dynamic"
},
{
"name": "local_machine",
"description": "Includes only my local machine",
"label_membership_type": "manual",
"hosts": ["snacbook-pro.local"]
}
]
}
Default response
Status: 200
Get labels spec
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/labels
Parameters
None.
Example
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/labels
Default response
Status: 200
{
"specs": [
{
"id": 6,
"name": "All Hosts",
"description": "All hosts which have enrolled in Fleet",
"query": "select 1;",
"label_type": "builtin",
"label_membership_type": "dynamic"
},
{
"id": 7,
"name": "macOS",
"description": "All macOS hosts",
"query": "select 1 from os_version where platform = 'darwin';",
"platform": "darwin",
"label_type": "builtin",
"label_membership_type": "dynamic"
},
{
"id": 8,
"name": "Ubuntu Linux",
"description": "All Ubuntu hosts",
"query": "select 1 from os_version where platform = 'ubuntu';",
"platform": "ubuntu",
"label_type": "builtin",
"label_membership_type": "dynamic"
},
{
"id": 9,
"name": "CentOS Linux",
"description": "All CentOS hosts",
"query": "select 1 from os_version where platform = 'centos' or name like '%centos%'",
"label_type": "builtin",
"label_membership_type": "dynamic"
},
{
"id": 10,
"name": "MS Windows",
"description": "All Windows hosts",
"query": "select 1 from os_version where platform = 'windows';",
"platform": "windows",
"label_type": "builtin",
"label_membership_type": "dynamic"
},
{
"id": 11,
"name": "Ubuntu",
"description": "Filters ubuntu hosts",
"query": "select 1 from os_version where platform = 'ubuntu';",
"label_membership_type": "dynamic"
}
]
}
Get label spec
Returns the spec for the label specified by name.
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/labels/{name}
Parameters
None.
Example
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/labels/local_machine
Default response
Status: 200
{
"specs": {
"id": 12,
"name": "local_machine",
"description": "Includes only my local machine",
"query": "",
"label_membership_type": "manual"
}
}
Get enroll secrets
Returns the valid global enroll secrets.
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/enroll_secret
Parameters
None.
Example
GET /api/v1/fleet/spec/enroll_secret
Default response
Status: 200
{
"spec": {
"secrets": [
{
"secret": "fTp52/twaxBU6gIi0J6PHp8o5Sm1k1kn",
"created_at": "2021-01-07T19:40:04Z"
},
{
"secret": "bhD5kiX2J+KBgZSk118qO61ZIdX/v8On",
"created_at": "2021-01-04T21:18:07Z"
}
]
}
}
Modify enroll secrets
Replaces the active global enroll secrets with the secrets specified.
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/enroll_secret
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
secret | string | body | Required. The plain text string used as the enroll secret. |
Example
Request body
{
"spec": {
"secrets": [
{
"secret": "fTp52/twaxBU6gIi0J6PHp8o5Sm1k1kn"
}
]
}
}
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/enroll_secret
Default response
Status: 200
Check live query status
Checks the status of the Fleet's ability to run a live query. If an error is present in the response, Fleet won't be able to successfully run a live query. This endpoint is used by the Fleet UI to make sure that the Fleet instance is correctly configured to run live queries.
GET /api/v1/fleet/status/live_query
Parameters
None.
Example
GET /api/v1/fleet/status/live_query
Default response
Status: 200
Check result store status
Checks the status of the Fleet's result store. If an error is present in the response, Fleet won't be able to successfully run a live query. This endpoint is used by the Fleet UI to make sure that the Fleet instance is correctly configured to run live queries.
GET /api/v1/fleet/status/result_store
Parameters
None.
Example
GET /api/v1/fleet/status/result_store
Default response
Status: 200
Run live query
Runs the specified query as a live query on the specified hosts or group of hosts. Returns a new live query campaign. Individual hosts must be specified with the host's ID. Groups of hosts are specified by label ID.
After the query has been initiated, get results via WebSocket.
POST /api/v1/fleet/queries/run
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
query | string | body | The SQL if using a custom query. |
query_id | integer | body | The saved query (if any) that will be run. Required if running query as an observer. The observer_can_run property on the query effects which targets are included. |
selected | object | body | Required. The desired targets for the query specified by ID. This object can contain hosts , labels , and/or teams properties. See examples below. |
One of query
and query_id
must be specified.
Example with one host targeted by ID
POST /api/v1/fleet/queries/run
Request body
{
"query": "select instance_id from system_info",
"selected": {
"hosts": [171]
}
}
Default response
Status: 200
{
"campaign": {
"created_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"updated_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"Metrics": {
"TotalHosts": 1,
"OnlineHosts": 0,
"OfflineHosts": 1,
"MissingInActionHosts": 0,
"NewHosts": 1
},
"id": 1,
"query_id": 3,
"status": 0,
"user_id": 1
}
}
Example with multiple hosts targeted by label ID
POST /api/v1/fleet/queries/run
Request body
{
"query": "select instance_id from system_info;",
"selected": {
"labels": [7]
}
}
Default response
Status: 200
{
"campaign": {
"created_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"updated_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"Metrics": {
"TotalHosts": 102,
"OnlineHosts": 0,
"OfflineHosts": 24,
"MissingInActionHosts": 0,
"NewHosts": 0
},
"id": 2,
"query_id": 3,
"status": 0,
"user_id": 1
}
}
Run live query by name
Runs the specified saved query as a live query on the specified targets. Returns a new live query campaign. Individual hosts must be specified with the host's hostname. Groups of hosts are specified by label name.
After the query has been initiated, get results via WebSocket.
POST /api/v1/fleet/queries/run_by_names
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
query | string | body | The SQL of the query. |
query_id | integer | body | The saved query (if any) that will be run. The observer_can_run property on the query effects which targets are included. |
selected | object | body | Required. The desired targets for the query specified by name. This object can contain hosts , labels , and/or teams properties. See examples below. |
One of query
and query_id
must be specified.
Example with one host targeted by hostname
POST /api/v1/fleet/queries/run_by_names
Request body
{
"query_id": 1,
"selected": {
"hosts": ["macbook-pro.local"]
}
}
Default response
Status: 200
{
"campaign": {
"created_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"updated_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"Metrics": {
"TotalHosts": 1,
"OnlineHosts": 0,
"OfflineHosts": 1,
"MissingInActionHosts": 0,
"NewHosts": 1
},
"id": 1,
"query_id": 3,
"status": 0,
"user_id": 1
}
}
Example with multiple hosts targeted by label name
POST /api/v1/fleet/queries/run_by_names
Request body
{
"query": "select instance_id from system_info",
"selected": {
"labels": ["All Hosts"]
}
}
Default response
Status: 200
{
"campaign": {
"created_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"updated_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"Metrics": {
"TotalHosts": 102,
"OnlineHosts": 0,
"OfflineHosts": 24,
"MissingInActionHosts": 0,
"NewHosts": 1
},
"id": 2,
"query_id": 3,
"status": 0,
"user_id": 1
}
}
Retrieve live query results (standard WebSocket API)
You can retrieve the results of a live query using the standard WebSocket API.
Before you retrieve the live query results, you must create a live query campaign by running the live query. Use the Run live query or Run live query by name endpoints to create a live query campaign.
Note that live queries are automatically cancelled if this method is not called to start retrieving the results within 60 seconds of initiating the query.
/api/v1/fleet/results/websockets
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
token | string | Required. The token used to authenticate with the Fleet API. | |
campaignID | integer | Required. The ID of the live query campaign. |
Example
Example script to handle request and response
const socket = new WebSocket('wss://<your-base-url>/api/v1/fleet/results/websockets');
socket.onopen = () => {
socket.send(JSON.stringify({ type: 'auth', data: { token: <auth-token> } }));
socket.send(JSON.stringify({ type: 'select_campaign', data: { campaign_id: <campaign-id> } }));
};
socket.onmessage = ({ data }) => {
console.log(data);
const message = JSON.parse(data);
if (message.type === 'status' && message.data.status === 'finished') {
socket.close();
}
}
Detailed request and response walkthrough with example data
webSocket.onopen()
Response data
o
webSocket.send()
Request data
[
{
"type": "auth",
"data": { "token": <insert_token_here> }
}
]
[
{
"type": "select_campaign",
"data": { "campaign_id": 12 }
}
]
webSocket.onmessage()
Response data
// Sends the total number of hosts targeted and segments them by status
[
{
"type": "totals",
"data": {
"count": 24,
"online": 6,
"offline": 18,
"missing_in_action": 0
}
}
]
// Sends the expected results, actual results so far, and the status of the live query
[
{
"type": "status",
"data": {
"expected_results": 6,
"actual_results": 0,
"status": "pending"
}
}
]
// Sends the result for a given host
[
{
"type": "result",
"data": {
"distributed_query_execution_id": 39,
"host": {
// host data
},
"rows": [
// query results data for the given host
],
"error": null
}
}
]
// Sends the status of "finished" when messages with the results for all expected hosts have been sent
[
{
"type": "status",
"data": {
"expected_results": 6,
"actual_results": 6,
"status": "finished"
}
}
]
Retrieve live query results (SockJS)
You can also retrieve live query results with a SockJS client. The script to handle the request and response messages will look similar to the standard WebSocket API script with slight variations. For example, the constructor used for SockJS is SockJS
while the constructor used for the standard WebSocket API is WebSocket
.
Note that SockJS has been found to be substantially less reliable than the standard WebSockets approach.
/api/v1/fleet/results/
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
token | string | Required. The token used to authenticate with the Fleet API. | |
campaignID | integer | Required. The ID of the live query campaign. |
Example
Example script to handle request and response
const socket = new SockJS(`<your-base-url>/api/v1/fleet/results`, undefined, {});
socket.onopen = () => {
socket.send(JSON.stringify({ type: 'auth', data: { token: <token> } }));
socket.send(JSON.stringify({ type: 'select_campaign', data: { campaign_id: <campaignID> } }));
};
socket.onmessage = ({ data }) => {
console.log(data);
const message = JSON.parse(data);
if (message.type === 'status' && message.data.status === 'finished') {
socket.close();
}
}
Detailed request and response walkthrough
socket.onopen()
Response data
o
socket.send()
Request data
[
{
"type": "auth",
"data": { "token": <insert_token_here> }
}
]
[
{
"type": "select_campaign",
"data": { "campaign_id": 12 }
}
]
socket.onmessage()
Response data
// Sends the total number of hosts targeted and segments them by status
[
{
"type": "totals",
"data": {
"count": 24,
"online": 6,
"offline": 18,
"missing_in_action": 0
}
}
]
// Sends the expected results, actual results so far, and the status of the live query
[
{
"type": "status",
"data": {
"expected_results": 6,
"actual_results": 0,
"status": "pending"
}
}
]
// Sends the result for a given host
[
{
"type": "result",
"data": {
"distributed_query_execution_id": 39,
"host": {
// host data
},
"rows": [
// query results data for the given host
],
"error": null
}
}
]
// Sends the status of "finished" when messages with the results for all expected hosts have been sent
[
{
"type": "status",
"data": {
"expected_results": 6,
"actual_results": 6,
"status": "finished"
}
}
]
Apply policies spec
Creates and/or modifies the policies included in the specs list. To modify an existing policy, the name of the query included in specs
must already be used by an existing policy. If a policy with the specified name doesn't exist in Fleet, a new policy will be created.
NOTE: when updating a policy, team and platform will be ignored.
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/policies
Parameters
Name | Type | In | Description |
---|---|---|---|
specs | list | body | Required. The list of the policies to be created or modified. |
Example
POST /api/v1/fleet/spec/policies
Request body
{
"specs": [
{
"name": "new policy",
"description": "This will be a new policy because a policy with the name 'new policy' doesn't exist in Fleet.",
"query": "SELECT * FROM osquery_info",
"resolution": "some resolution steps here"
},
{
"name": "Is Filevault enabled on macOS devices?",
"query": "SELECT 1 FROM disk_encryption WHERE user_uuid IS NOT “” AND filevault_status = ‘on’ LIMIT 1;",
"description": "Checks to make sure that the Filevault feature is enabled on macOS devices.",
"resolution": "Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Security & Privacy. Click the FileVault tab. Click the Lock icon, then enter an administrator name and password. Click Turn On FileVault.",
"platform": "darwin"
}
]
}
Default response
Status: 200