Problem I have is that all my agents are registering as hostname

localhost

. This is more of an osquery thing than fleet thing but mentioning here because I see some possibly related discussion in history. But I didn't find any resolution in the threads I found. All this testing/mucking around was done on ubuntu18.04. We do our localhost line in /etc/hosts file like this

127.0.0.1 localhost <hostname_here>

- pretty standard stuff... But this seems to cause osquery to choose the first entry

localhost

in /etc/hosts localhost line as hostname of record. If I switch /etc/hosts localhost line to

127.0.0.1  <hostname_here> localhost

osquery picks up <hostname_here> as desired, but this is wrong and mucks lot of things that rely on localhost line being valid. If I remove <hostname_here> from /etc/hosts it appears that osquery concatenates hostname from /etc/hostname and possibly the domain line in /etc/resolv.conf. If I change the domain line in /etc/resolv.conf to something invalid or remove the domain line I get what I expected in fleet. I don't mind the domain being concatenated with the hostname just seems odd. Would like to be able to configure this behavior.

Are any of

select hostname, local_hostname, computer_name from osquery_info

the value you expect?

computer_name is correct but both hostname and local_hostname are localhost

Maybe we can make the hostname column configurable in Fleet. Feel free to file a feature request. (and even freer to submit a PR).