// question
On a Linux host, a command was run to list all processes and filter for common security or monitoring agents. Review the process logs and identify which agent name was actually observed.
Reference KQL answer and model-by-model comparison.
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models correct
1
valid answer
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success rate
// reference answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question.
auditbeat
// model comparison
| Model | Answer | KQL query | Status | Tries | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | auditd | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| join kind=inner (DeviceInfo | where OSPlatform == "Linux") on DeviceId
| where FileName has_any ('auditd', 'ossec-agentd', 'splunkd', 'mdatp', 'falcon-sensor', 'elastic-agent', 'syslog-ng', 'rsyslogd', 'zabbix_agentd', 'datadog-agent') or ProcessCommandLine has_any ('auditd', 'ossec-agentd', 'splunkd', 'mdatp', 'falcon-sensor', 'elastic-agent', 'syslog-ng', 'rsyslogd', 'zabbix_agentd', 'datadog-agent')
| summarize count() by FileName | fail | 2 | 31.70s | 0.0159 |
| gpt-35-turbo | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0108 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | None | DeviceProcessEvents | where FileName =~ 'ps' and (ProcessCommandLine contains 'aux' or ProcessCommandLine contains 'ejvx') | summarize AgentNames = make_set(ProcessVersionInfoProductName) by DeviceName, DeviceId | project DeviceName, DeviceId, AgentNames | fail | 2 | 15.03s | 0.0979 |
| gpt-4.1 | auditd | DeviceProcessEvents // Filter for common agent process names in FileName or ProcessCommandLine | where FileName matches regex @"(?i)(falcon|crowdstrike|sentinelone|sentinelctl|sophos|savd|mcafee|isecespd|trend|cb|carbonblack|osquery|elastic|auditd|sysmon|qualys|defendpoint|edr|clamd|defender|detection|dome|secureworks|panda|bitdefender|eset|avast|avg|comodo|f-secure|kaspersky|malwarebytes|rapid7|fireeye|forti|fidelis|huntress|tanium|sumologic|logrhythm|zeek|suricata|sysdig|wazuh|ossec)" or ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"(?i)(falcon|crowdstrike|sentinelone|sentinelctl|sophos|savd|mcafee|isecespd|trend|cb|carbonblack|osquery|elastic|auditd|sysmon|qualys|defendpoint|edr|clamd|defender|detection|dome|secureworks|panda|bitdefender|eset|avast|avg|comodo|f-secure|kaspersky|malwarebytes|rapid7|fireeye|forti|fidelis|huntress|tanium|sumologic|logrhythm|zeek|suricata|sysdig|wazuh|ossec)" | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine | summarize AgentsObserved = make_set(FileName), SampleCommands = make_set(ProcessCommandLine,10), Count=count() | fail | 2 | 12.00s | 0.0213 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0335 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | auditd | DeviceProcessEvents | where ProcessCommandLine containscs "osquery" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "falco" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "sysmon" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "sysdig" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "auditd" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "tripwire" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "clamav" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "loganalyzer" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "auditbeat" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "filebeat" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "packetbeat" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "suricata" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "ossec" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "wazuh" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "zeek" or ProcessCommandLine containscs "snort" | summarize AgentsObserved = make_set(ProcessCommandLine) | project AgentsObserved | fail | 1 | 5.06s | 0.0026 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0018 |
| gpt-4o | mdatp | DeviceProcessEvents | join kind=inner (DeviceInfo | where OSPlatform == "Linux") on DeviceId | where ProcessCommandLine contains "agent" or ProcessCommandLine contains "security" or ProcessCommandLine contains "monitor" | summarize FirstObserved=min(ProcessCreationTime), LastObserved=max(ProcessCreationTime), Count=count() by InitiatingProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessAccountName, DeviceName | order by LastObserved desc | fail | 3 | 11.29s | 0.1983 |
| gpt-5-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.3064 |
| gpt-5-mini-high | falco | let agentsRegex = @"(splunk|ossec|wazuh|osquery|falco|auditbeat|filebeat|winlogbeat|metricbeat|packetbeat|collectd|datadog|newrelic|sensu|sumologic|sumo|crowdstrike|carbonblack|tanium|qualys|mcafee|symantec|trendmicro|opswat|sentinel|azuremonitor|azuremonitoragent|microsoft)";
union DeviceProcessEvents, DeviceEvents
| where isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine)
// look for common 'ps ... | grep/egrep/pgrep/awk' patterns used to enumerate processes on Linux
| where tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "ps" and (
tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "grep"
or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "egrep"
or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "pgrep"
or tolower(ProcessCommandLine) contains "awk"
)
| extend cmd = tolower(ProcessCommandLine)
| extend matchedAgent = extract(agentsRegex, 1, cmd)
| where isnotempty(matchedAgent)
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, matchedAgent
| summarize Count = count(), SampleTime = min(TimeGenerated), DeviceNames = make_set(DeviceName, 10), SampleCommands = make_set(ProcessCommandLine, 5) by Agent = matchedAgent
| order by Count desc | fail | 1 | 25.81s | 0.0063 |
| gpt-5-mini-low | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0130 |
| gpt-5-mini-medium | osquery | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("ps -ef", "ps aux", "ps -Ao", "ps -e", "ps -A")
// commands that indicate piping to grep/egrep/awk to filter agent names
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("grep", "egrep", "fgrep", "awk", "sed")
| extend cmd=tolower(ProcessCommandLine)
| extend matchedAgent=
case(
cmd contains "osquery" or cmd contains "osqueryd", "osquery",
cmd contains "falcon" or cmd contains "crowdstrike" or cmd contains "falcon-sensor", "crowdstrike/falcon",
cmd contains "datadog" or cmd contains "datadog-agent" or cmd contains "agent/datadog", "datadog",
cmd contains "splunk" or cmd contains "splunkd" or cmd contains "splunkforwarder" , "splunk",
cmd contains "azure" and cmd contains "monitor" or cmd contains "azuremonitoragent" or cmd contains "ama" , "azure-monitor/ama",
cmd contains "sysmon" or cmd contains "sysmon-agent", "sysmon",
cmd contains "elastic" or cmd contains "elastic-agent" or cmd contains "filebeat" or cmd contains "metricbeat", "elastic",
cmd contains "google" and cmd contains "fluentd" or cmd contains "google-fluentd", "google-fluentd",
cmd contains "telegraf" or cmd contains "influx" or cmd contains "tealium", "telegraf",
cmd contains "amagent" or cmd contains "aagent" or cmd contains "amsagent" or cmd contains "azuremonitor" , "ama/aagent",
cmd contains "datadog" or cmd contains "dd-agent", "datadog",
cmd contains "qualys" or cmd contains "qagent" or cmd contains "qualys-cloud-agent", "qualys",
cmd contains "vmware" and cmd contains "tools" , "vmware-tools",
cmd contains "tanium" or cmd contains "taniumclient" or cmd contains "tanium-agent", "tanium",
cmd contains "carbonblack" or cmd contains "cb" or cmd contains "cbsys" or cmd contains "cb-agent", "carbonblack",
cmd contains "mcafee" or cmd contains "epcsvc" or cmd contains "mfe" , "mcafee",
cmd contains "clamav" or cmd contains "clamd" , "clamav",
cmd contains "agent" , "other-agent",
"unknown"
)
| where matchedAgent != "unknown"
| summarize Count = count(), SampleTime=min(TimeGenerated) by DeviceName, matchedAgent, InitiatingProcessAccountName
| order by Count desc
| project DeviceName, matchedAgent, Count, SampleTime, InitiatingProcessAccountName
| take 50 | fail | 1 | 17.05s | 0.0035 |
| gpt-5-nano-high | falcon and cb | DeviceProcessEvents | where isnotempty(InitiatingProcessCommandLine) or isnotempty(ProcessCommandLine) | extend cmdline = coalesce(InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine) | extend cmd_lower = tolower(cmdline) | where cmd_lower contains "ps" and cmd_lower contains "grep" | mv-expand agent = dynamic(["crowdstrike","falcon","sentinelone","carbonblack","cb","symantec","mcafee","sophos","trendmicro","defender","bitdefender","cybereason","fireeye","kaspersky","malwarebytes","eset","clamav","avast","avira"]) | where cmd_lower contains agent | summarize ObservedAgents = makeset(agent), TotalMatches = count() | fail | 3 | 107.21s | 0.0066 |
| gpt-5-nano-medium | monit | let AgentCandidates = dynamic(["osqueryd","ossec-agent","falcon-sensor","crowdstrike","splunkd","zabbix_agentd","auditd","clamd","clamav","monit"]); DeviceProcessEvents | where TimeGenerated >= ago(1d) | extend CmdLine = strcat(InitiatingProcessCommandLine, " ", ProcessCommandLine) | mv-expand Candidate = AgentCandidates | extend CandidateStr = tostring(Candidate) | where CmdLine contains CandidateStr | summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine) by DeviceName, CandidateStr | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ObservedAgent = CandidateStr, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | order by TimeGenerated desc | fail | 4 | 131.36s | 0.0070 |
| grok-3-beta | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.1259 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| where TimeGenerated between (datetime(2023-01-01) .. now()) // Timerange will be replaced externally
| join kind=inner (DeviceInfo | where OSPlatform == "Linux" | project DeviceId, DeviceName) on DeviceId
| where FileName has_any ("defender", "crowdstrike", "sophos", "agent") or ProcessCommandLine has_any ("defender", "crowdstrike", "sophos", "agent")
| distinct FileName, DeviceName
| project DeviceName, ObservedAgent=FileName
| sort by DeviceName asc | fail | 3 | 37.48s | 0.0045 |
| o1-high | None | let LinuxDevices = DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId, DeviceName;
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where DeviceId in (LinuxDevices)
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("ps aux", "ps -ef")
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "grep"
| extend ObservedAgent = extract(@"grep\s+(\S+)", 1, ProcessCommandLine)
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, ObservedAgent
| order by TimeGenerated desc | fail | 3 | 101.06s | 0.7469 |
| o1-low | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 1.0598 |
| o3-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.1090 |
| o3-mini-high | auditd | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("osquery", "wazuh", "auditd", "sysdig", "falco", "tripwire", "clamav", "chkrootkit", "rkhunter", "snort", "suricata", "ossec")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessId, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | fail | 1 | 21.96s | 0.0165 |
| o3-mini-low | telegraf | DeviceProcessEvents | where ProcessCommandLine has "ps" and ProcessCommandLine has "grep" | extend AgentName = extract(@"grep\s+(\S+)", 1, ProcessCommandLine) | summarize Count = count() by AgentName | order by Count desc | fail | 1 | 51.45s | 0.0196 |
| o4-mini-high | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0542 |
| o4-mini-low | no answer | no query generated | fail | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0473 |