Security Monitoring Without the Headaches
Your infrastructure produces thousands of security events every minute. Managing security across different systems is gets tedious. Wazuh helps you make sense of them before they become real problems. The below is what you get when you deploy Wazuh.
Intrusion Detection That Catches Things
File integrity monitoring, rootkit detection, and real-time log analysis working together. It catches the stuff that matters and doesn’t drown you in false positives.
Compliance Reporting You Can Actually Use
PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST 800-53—it mapps the controls so you don’t have to. Built-in dashboards show you where you stand, and the audit reports don’t require a translation guide.
Cloud and Container Visibility
Your workloads are running in AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes—wherever. Wazuh monitors all of it from one place. Configuration monitoring, threat detection, and security posture management that scales with your infrastructure.
Vulnerability Detection
Automated scanning that actually tells you what’s exposed and what needs patching first. Integrated with CVE databases, so you’re not guessing about severity.
Active Response
When something suspicious happens, Wazuh can take action automatically. Block IPs, disable accounts, trigger custom scripts. You define the rules, it handles the response.
Open Source and Extensible
No vendor lock-in, no per-agent licensing fees. The codebase is open, the community is active, and if you need custom integrations, the API makes it straightforward.
Why Teams Choose Wazuh
Some SIEM solutions cost more than your entire security budget, others promise the moon but deliver a complicated mess. Wazuh sits in a different category.
It started because security teams needed something that worked across their entire environment—servers, endpoints, cloud instances, containers—without requiring a masters degree to configure. The open-source model means you can see exactly what it’s doing, modify it when you need to, and not worry about surprise licensing costs when you scale.
The architecture is straightforward: lightweight agents collect data, the central manager analyses it, and Elasticsearch handles the indexing. Kibana gives you the dashboards, but you can also push data to your existing tools. It integrates with Slack, PagerDuty, JIRA, or whatever else you’re using.
What makes it work is the ruleset. Years of community contributions mean detection rules for everything from brute force attacks to suspicious AWS API calls. You can use them as-is or tune them for your environment. The documentation actually explains things instead of assuming you already know everything.
Whether you’re running a startup with a handful of servers or managing enterprise infrastructure, Wazuh scales to fit. The learning curve exists, but it’s manageable. Most teams get their first agents deployed and collecting useful data within a day.
If you’re tired of security tools that either do too little or overcomplicate everything, give Wazuh a try. You’ve may have found a security monitoring solution that actually fits how your team works.