Self-hosted / open sourceEndpoint & Device ManagementHeadquarters: US

osquery: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

osquery is an open-source framework for operating-system instrumentation and monitoring. It presents Windows, macOS and Linux as a relational database that you can query with SQL, for example to examine processes, installed software, network connections or users. The osqueryd component runs as a background daemon and executes scheduled queries, while osqueryi offers an interactive console for incident response and troubleshooting. osquery is installed by the organisation itself and forms the basis of various endpoint and security products. It is an open alternative to the built-in inventory and reporting functions of commercial endpoint management tools.

The project was developed by Facebook and has been part of the osquery Foundation within the Linux Foundation, a US non-profit, since 2019. The code is on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 and GPL-2.0 licences. The maintainer does not run a cloud platform: data is collected on your own systems and stays there unless you forward it to a logging platform of your own. For European organisations this means control over the data flow, while the project's governance sits in the United States.

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Sovereignty score

69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-3100
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 12, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Endpoint & Device Management
Type	Product
Website	osquery.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to osquery

The European alternatives to osquery come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with osquery

osquery is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

osquery hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

osquery is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs osquery together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to osquery?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to osquery include Aagon ACMP, Applivery and AppTec360. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to osquery?

Our list of EU alternatives to osquery is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is osquery GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

osquery is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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