Name: Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform
Rating: 4.4 (55 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform?

Wazuh is an open source security software designed to facilitate threat detection, compliance management, and incident response. The software provides centralized security analytics, leveraging both host-based intrusion detection and file integrity monitoring to identify and analyze suspicious activities across endpoints, cloud environments, and containers. Wazuh offers real-time monitoring of system logs and configurations, automated alerting, and vulnerability detection features. It integrates with security information and event management platforms to deliver scalable reporting and analysis functionalities. The software aims to help organizations efficiently manage security operations and address regulatory requirements by providing a comprehensive view of security events and system posture.

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<50M USD, IT Services

FAVORABLE

“Monitor Your Hosts with Wazuh: Features, Compliance and Reports”

4.0

Mar 31, 2026

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IT MANAGER

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education

CRITICAL

“Free SIEM Solution Offers Simple Administration with Straightforward Log Management”

3.0

Jun 27, 2025

About Company

Company Description

Wazuh is a security platform that aims to safeguard data assets across multiple environments including on-site, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based. With both Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) capabilities, it is used by organizations globally to protect against various types of security threats. The platform integrates a large open-source security community who contribute towards its enhancements.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2015

Head office location

Campbell, United States

Number of employees

201 - 500

Website

https://www.wazuh.com

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There is a huge Wazuh community, so updates are frequent and you can find many information on internet to improve your Wazuh installation. Even in the free versionyou can fully use the product

There is a client that needs to be setup on each machine. When it crashes, it is hard to restore and just easier to rebuild a new machine. It is open source and does bring more potential vulnerabilities into your environment.

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Monitor Your Hosts with Wazuh: Features, Compliance and Reports

Wazuh has many features and helps you to monitor your hosts (but also e.g. your 365 tenant), windows and linux operating systems are supported. Just install an agent on every machine. The agent will check for vulnerabilities, for security compliance, for event logs and you will be able to generate reports about (you can customize logos and information about your Company), in PDF and Excel format. You can explore the details for every host. Installation is quite easy , there is a script that will do all the task. You can do queries while looking at your logs and create filters. A really good product, highly customizable. A little bit of technical knowledgment is required (you may need to access you wazuh server via ssh).

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What is Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform?

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Overall experience with Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform

“Monitor Your Hosts with Wazuh: Features, Compliance and Reports”

“Free SIEM Solution Offers Simple Administration with Straightforward Log Management”

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