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SecurityOnion

Security Onion is a free and open source Linux distribution for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to SecurityOnion

Suricata Wazuh Zabbix Ossec Graylog Prelude Nagios CrowdSec Prometheus tcpdump

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to SecurityOnion are Suricata, Wazuh, and Zabbix. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Cyber Security #Tool 12 social mentions

  2. 2
    Open Source Host and Endpoint Security
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Security Information And Event Management (SIEM) #Cyber Security 49 social mentions

  3. 3
    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions

  4. 4
    OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Cyber Security #Monitoring Tools 1 social mentions

  5. Graylog is an open source log management platform for collecting, indexing, and analyzing both structured and unstructured data.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 2 social mentions

  6. Supercharge your hiring process & remove friction from scheduling.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Security Information And Event Management (SIEM) #Recruitment

  7. 7
    Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

  8. CrowdSec is a security automation engine, using both local IP behavior detection & our community-driven IP reputation database.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Cyber Security #Data Analysis 113 social mentions

  9. An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 225 social mentions

  10. 10
    tcpdump is a common packet analyzer that runs under the command line.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Security

  11. Logit.io provides complete observability of logs, metrics and traces. The platform also offers alerting & monitoring, as well as Prometheus, OpenSearch & Grafana. Ingest any type of data to see real-time insights about your applications and services
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Paid
    • Free Trial
    • $0.74 (per GB per day)

    #Log Management #Monitoring Tools #Machine Data Analytics

  12. Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 11 social mentions

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