Getting Started

Getting started with Falco

You can deploy Falco on a local machine, cloud, a managed Kubernetes cluster, or a Kubernetes cluster such as K3s running on IoT & Edge computing.

Falco Architecture

Falco can detect and alert on any behavior that involves making Linux system calls. Falco alerts are triggered based on specific system calls, arguments, and properties of the calling process. Falco operates at the user space and kernel space. The system calls are interpreted by the Falco kernel module. The syscalls are then analyzed using the libraries in the userspace. The events are then filtered using a rules engine where the Falco rules are configured. Suspicious events are then alerted to outputs that are configured as Syslog, files, Standard Output, and others.

Falco Architecture

Deployment

Currently, you can deploy Falco by:

  • Downloading and running Falco on a Linux host or running Falco userspace program in a container, with a driver installed on the underlying host.
  • Building from source and then running Falco on a Linux host or on a container.

Download

Officially supported Falco artifacts

Install

Setting up Falco on a Linux system

Upgrade

Upgrading Falco on a Linux system

Running

Operating and Managing Falco

Build Falco from source

Third Party Integrations

Community driven integrations built on the Falco core