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Deploy a Velociraptor server and agents, then author VQL (Velociraptor Query Language) artifacts and run them as fleet-wide hunts, on-demand forensic collections, or standalone offline collectors. Use when hunting a TTP across hundreds or thousands of endpoints, collecting forensic artifacts during incident response without re-imaging, or generating collectors for unmanaged/air-gapped hosts.

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# Fleet Hunting with Velociraptor

> **Authorized Use Only:** Velociraptor agents provide deep endpoint visibility and remote collection. Deploy only on assets you own or are authorized to monitor, in accordance with your monitoring policy and applicable law.

## Overview

Velociraptor is an open-source endpoint visibility and digital-forensics platform from Rapid7/Velocidex. A single Go binary acts as server, client (agent), and CLI depending on how it is invoked and configured. Its power comes from **VQL (Velociraptor Query Language)** — an SQL-like language whose plugins query the live state of an endpoint (processes, files, registry, event logs, WMI, network connections, prefetch, etc.). VQL queries are packaged into reusable **Artifacts**, and Artifacts are run at scale as **Hunts** that fan out across every connected client and stream results back to the server as structured rows.

This makes Velociraptor ideal for fleet-wide threat hunting: a hypothesis ("are any hosts running suspicious PowerShell?") becomes a VQL artifact, deployed as a hunt, with results aggregated centrally in minutes. It also supports offline collectors (standalone executables that collect and bundle artifacts on air-gapped or unmanaged hosts) and live forensic notebooks.

## When to Use

- Hunting for a TTP across hundreds or thousands of endpoints from a single console.
- Collecting forensic artifacts on demand during incident response without re-imaging.
- Continuously monitoring for an indicator using client-side event artifacts.
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