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A Linux system shows a process in the execution logs that fetched the machine’s name. Review the DeviceProcessEvents table to find out which utility was called to perform this hostname lookup.
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Question ID
12/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
75%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
hostname
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| Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has "hostname" or ProcessCommandLine has "uname -n"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, AccountName
| take 10 | Correct | 1 | 6.37s | 0.0020 |
| gpt-35-turbo | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0108 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.2229 |
| gpt-4.1 | hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in~ ("hostname", "uname", "cat")
or ProcessCommandLine has_any ("hostname", "uname", "/proc/sys/kernel/hostname")
| summarize EventCount = count(), ExampleTime=min(TimeGenerated), AnyDevice=any(DeviceName), AnyUser=any(AccountName)
by FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| top 20 by EventCount desc | Correct | 2 | 9.65s | 0.0254 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0386 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0062 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | /usr/bin/hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ('nslookup', 'hostname', 'ipconfig', 'scutil', 'dig', 'host') or FileName has_any ('nslookup.exe', 'hostname', 'ipconfig.exe', 'scutil', 'dig', 'host')
| take 50
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, InitiatingProcessFileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessParentFileName, InitiatingProcessId, InitiatingProcessParentId, InitiatingProcessCreationTime | Correct | 3 | 6.12s | 0.0016 |
| gpt-4o | hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated" and (ProcessCommandLine contains "hostname" or FileName == "hostname")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| take 50 | Correct | 5 | 30.46s | 0.0601 |
| grok-3-beta | hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| where (ProcessCommandLine contains_cs 'hostname' or ProcessCommandLine contains_cs 'hostnamectl' or ProcessCommandLine contains_cs 'uname')
or (FileName contains_cs 'hostname' or FileName contains_cs 'hostnamectl' or FileName contains_cs 'uname')
| where InitiatingProcessFolderPath contains '/usr/' or InitiatingProcessFolderPath contains '/bin/' or InitiatingProcessFolderPath contains '/sbin/'
| project DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessCreationTime, ProcessId, AccountName
| order by ProcessCreationTime desc
| limit 50 | Correct | 3 | 24.61s | 0.0896 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'hostname'
| join kind=inner (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == 'Linux'
| project DeviceId
) on DeviceId
| summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by FileName
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| limit 100 | Correct | 5 | 58.60s | 0.0075 |
| o1-high | hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where FileName in~ ("hostname", "uname", "nslookup", "host")
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| limit 50 | Correct | 2 | 47.03s | 0.3370 |
| o1-low | hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| join (DeviceInfo | where OSPlatform == "Linux") on DeviceId
| where FileName in~ ("hostname", "uname", "hostnamectl")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, OSPlatform, AccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc
| limit 100 | Correct | 2 | 38.06s | 0.3182 |
| o3-mini-high | hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName has "hostname" or ProcessCommandLine has "hostname"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessCreationTime, InitiatingProcessFileName
| sort by TimeGenerated desc
| limit 50 | Correct | 1 | 7.74s | 0.0109 |
| o3-mini-low | hostname | DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform =~ "Linux"
| project DeviceId, OSPlatform
) on DeviceId
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "hostname" or FileName contains "hostname"
| where isnull(FileName) or FileName !endswith ".exe"
| summarize EventCount = count() by DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName
| sort by EventCount desc
| limit 100 | Correct | 3 | 28.51s | 0.0359 |
| o4-mini-high | hostname | let linuxDevices = DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId;
linuxDevices
| join kind=inner (
DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName in ("hostname", "hostnamectl", "uname")
and (FileName != "uname" or ProcessCommandLine has "-n")
) on DeviceId
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, FileName, FolderPath, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| sort by TimeGenerated desc
| take 50 | Correct | 3 | 45.25s | 0.0333 |
| o4-mini-low | hostname | let linuxDevices = DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId;
DeviceProcessEvents
| where DeviceId in (linuxDevices)
// Only process‐creation events
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
// Match the hostname binary or uname with -n flag
| where FileName =~ "hostname"
or (FileName =~ "uname" and ProcessCommandLine has "-n")
// Project only the fields you need to see which utility was called
| project TimeGenerated,
DeviceName,
AccountName,
FileName,
ProcessCommandLine,
InitiatingProcessFileName,
InitiatingProcessCommandLine,
ProcessId,
InitiatingProcessId
| sort by TimeGenerated desc
| take 50 | Correct | 4 | 111.50s | 0.0361 |