Question Analysis
Review Linux process execution logs to find where the system journal service was stopped. Which utility was invoked to disable journal logging?
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Question ID
11/16
Models Correct
1
Valid Answer
69%
Success Rate
Reference Answer
Human-validated correct answer for this question
systemctl
Model Performance Comparison
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| Model | Answer | KQL Query | Status | Attempts | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "systemctl" and (ProcessCommandLine has "stop" or ProcessCommandLine has "disable") and (ProcessCommandLine has "journal" or ProcessCommandLine has "systemd-journald")
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, AccountName | Correct | 1 | 10.91s | 0.0031 |
| gpt-35-turbo | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'systemctl stop systemd-journald'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 2.17s | 0.0025 |
| gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName has 'systemctl' or FileName has 'service'
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'stop' and (ProcessCommandLine contains 'journald' or ProcessCommandLine contains 'systemd-journald')
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, ProcessCommandLine, FileName | Correct | 1 | 10.32s | 0.0521 |
| gpt-4.1 | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("systemctl", "service", "systemd-journald", "journalctl") and ProcessCommandLine contains "stop"
| where ProcessCommandLine has "systemd-journald" or ProcessCommandLine has "journal"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, AccountName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 12.78s | 0.0122 |
| gpt-4.1-finetuned | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0837 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "systemctl stop systemd-journald" or ProcessCommandLine contains "systemctl disable systemd-journald" or ProcessCommandLine contains "systemctl stop journald" or ProcessCommandLine contains "systemctl disable journald" or FileName has "systemctl"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine
| summarize by InitiatingProcessFileName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by InitiatingProcessFileName asc | Correct | 1 | 4.56s | 0.0031 |
| gpt-4.1-nano | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0015 |
| gpt-4o | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0532 |
| grok-3-beta | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains 'systemd-journald' and (ProcessCommandLine contains 'stop' or ProcessCommandLine contains 'disable')
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName, ProcessCommandLine, AccountName
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 8.95s | 0.0204 |
| grok-3-mini-beta | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| where FileName == 'systemctl' and ProcessCommandLine contains 'stop' and ProcessCommandLine contains 'systemd-journald'
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, ProcessCommandLine, FileName
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 10.71s | 0.0015 |
| o1-high | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| join kind=inner (
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| project DeviceId
) on DeviceId
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("journald", "journalctl")
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any ("disable", "stop")
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceId, DeviceName, FolderPath, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 33.75s | 0.2845 |
| o1-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.7727 |
| o3-mini-high | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "stop" and ProcessCommandLine contains "journal"
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "systemctl" or ProcessCommandLine contains "service"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, ProcessId, InitiatingProcessAccountName
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 2 | 22.03s | 0.0209 |
| o3-mini-low | systemctl | DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine has "systemctl"
and ProcessCommandLine has "stop"
and ProcessCommandLine has "journald"
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, FileName, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine
| order by TimeGenerated desc | Correct | 1 | 10.51s | 0.0088 |
| o4-mini-high | systemctl | // Find instances where the system journal (journald) was stopped or disabled on Linux hosts
// Time filtering is controlled by the query time picker (start/end)
let linuxDevices =
DeviceInfo
| where OSPlatform == "Linux"
| distinct DeviceId;
DeviceProcessEvents
| where TimeGenerated between (startofday(ago(30d)) .. now()) // replace or remove if using time picker
| where DeviceId in (linuxDevices)
| where ActionType == "ProcessCreated"
// Look for systemctl stop/disable commands targeting systemd-journald
| where ProcessCommandLine matches regex @"systemctl\s+(stop|disable)\s+systemd-journald(\.service)?"
| project TimeGenerated,
DeviceName,
User = InitiatingProcessAccountName,
CommandLine = ProcessCommandLine | Correct | 1 | 19.64s | 0.0141 |
| o4-mini-low | No answer provided | No query generated | Incorrect | 5 | 0.00s | 0.0506 |