Interact Essentials and Beyond - Tanium Tech Talks #161

Interact is the foundation of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform. In this episode, we discuss how to ask questions, build filters, and use caching and saved questions. Plus, supercharge your workflows with the AI‑powered Ask Agent.

You’ll learn how to:
🧩 Build effective questions using sensors and the Question Builder
🎯 Apply filters, groups, and regex to target the right endpoints
🗂️ Use cached data with Tanium Data Service (TDS) for offline and historical visibility
🔁 Save and reissue questions for repeatable workflows
🔍 Merge and drill down into results for deeper analysis
🤖 Use the AI‑powered Ask Agent to generate questions and summaries faster

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RESOURCES
Docs: https://help.tanium.com/bundle/ug_interact_cloud/page/interact/index.html

00:00 Intros

01:13 What is Interact

02:18 Asking questions

03:49 How questions really work

07:00 Question Builder

11:20 Building complex questions

16:01 Advanced filters and regex

19:46 Cached data and Tanium Data Service (TDS)

24:16 Saved questions

29:21 Current vs Recent vs Cached results

30:18 Merge vs Drill Down

36:19 Counting questions vs endpoint-level data

37:49 AI-powered Ask Agent

41:10 Wrap-up