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# Why Fleet

In an industry that views security and IT as a shopping spree rather than a process, it’s little wonder that IT and security teams get stuck with bolt-on solutions, misconfigured tools, and disparate workflows.

## What's it for?

In an industry that views security and IT as a shopping spree rather than a process, it's little wonder that IT and security teams get stuck with bolt-on solutions, misconfigured tools, and disparate workflows.

Fleet helps organizations like Fastly and Gusto reimagine the "easy button."

By simplifying how they do device health, FIM, HIDS, posture assessment, malware detection, vulnerability management, MDM, and the rest, Fleet's API enables teams with thousands of computers to build an IT and security program that works.

### Explore data
To see what kind of data you can use Fleet to gather, you can check out the [table reference documentation](https://fleetdm.com/tables).

#### Explore data
To see what kind of data you can use Fleet to gather, check out the [table reference documentation](https://fleetdm.com/tables).

#### Out-of-the-box policies
Fleet includes out-of-the box support for all [CIS benchmarks for macOS and Windows](https://fleetdm.com/pricing), as well as many [simpler queries](https://fleetdm.com/queries).
### Out-of-the-box policies
Fleet includes out-of-the-box support for all [CIS benchmarks for macOS and Windows](https://fleetdm.com/pricing), as well as many [simpler queries](https://fleetdm.com/queries).

Take as much or as little as you need for your organization.

#### Supported platforms
### Supported platforms
Here are the platforms Fleet currently supports:

- Linux (all distros)
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## Lighter than air
Fleet is lightweight and modular. You can use it for security without using it for MDM, and vice versa. You can turn off features you are not using.

#### Openness
### Open by design
Fleet is dedicated to flexibility, accessibility, and clarity. We think [everyone can contribute](https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company#openness) and that tools should be as easy as possible for everyone to understand.

#### Good neighbors
Fleet has no ambition to replace all of your other tools. (Though it might replace some, if you want it to.) Ready-to-use, enterprise-friendly [integrations](https://fleetdm.com/integrations) exist for Snowflake, Splunk, GitHub Actions, Vanta, Elastic Jira, Zendesk, and more.
### Good neighbors
Ready-to-use, enterprise-friendly [integrations](https://fleetdm.com/integrations) exist for Snowflake, Splunk, GitHub Actions, Vanta, Elastic Jira, Zendesk, and more.

Fleet plays well with Munki, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible, as well as with security tools like Crowdstrike and SentinelOne. For example, you can use the free version of Fleet to quickly report on what hosts are _actually_ running your EDR agent.

While most folks prefer to use one or the other, Fleet can also coexist peacefully with Rapid7 and other agent-based vulnerability scanners. This can be useful during migrations.

#### Free as in free
### Free as in free
The free version of Fleet will [always be free](https://fleetdm.com/pricing). Fleet is [independently backed](https://linkedin.com/company/fleetdm) and actively maintained with the help of many amazing [contributors](https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/graphs/contributors).

#### Longevity
### Longevity
The [company behind Fleet](https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company) is founded (and majority-owned) by [true believers in open source](https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company/why-this-way#why-open-source). The company's business model is influenced by GitLab (NYSE: GTLB), with great investors, happy customers, and the capacity to become profitable at any time.

In keeping with Fleet's value of openness, [Fleet Device Management's company handbook](https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company) is public and open source. You can read about the [history of Fleet and osquery](https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company#history) and our commitment to improving the product.

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## Is it any good?
Fleet is used in production by IT and security teams with thousands of laptops and servers. Many deployments support tens of thousands of hosts, and a few large organizations manage deployments as large as 400,000+ hosts.



## Chat
Please join us in [MacAdmins Slack](https://www.macadmins.org/) or in [osquery Slack](https://fleetdm.com/slack).
Please join us in [MacAdmins Slack](https://www.macadmins.org/) or [osquery Slack](https://fleetdm.com/slack).

The Fleet community is full of [kind and helpful people](https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company#empathy). Whether or not you are a paying customer, if you need help, just ask.


## Contributing
The landscape of cybersecurity and IT is too complex. Let's open it up.

Contributions are welcome, whether you answer questions on [Slack](#chat) / [GitHub](https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/issues) / [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=osquery) / [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/fleetdm) / [Twitter](https://twitter.com/fleetctl), improve the documentation or [website](https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/tree/main/website), write a tutorial, give a talk at a conference or local meetup, give an [interview on a podcast](https://fleetdm.com/podcasts), troubleshoot reported issues, or [submit a patch](https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/blob/main/docs/Contributing/Committing-Changes.md). The Fleet code of conduct is [on GitHub](https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).

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## What's next?
[Try out Fleet](https://fleetdm.com/try-fleet) for yourself to see what it can do, grab time with one of the maintainers to discuss, or explore the rest of the docs and roll it out to your organization.

#### Production deployment
Fleet is simple enough to [spin up for yourself](https://fleetdm.com/docs/deploy/deploy-on-aws-with-terraform). Or you can have us [host it for you](https://fleetdm.com/pricing). Premium features are [available](https://fleetdm.com/pricing) either way.
### Try it out

[Try out Fleet](https://fleetdm.com/try-fleet) to see what it can do, grab time with one of the maintainers to discuss, or explore the rest of the docs and roll it out to your organization.

### Questions?
We have answers to the most [common questions](https://fleetdm.com/docs/get-started/faq).

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