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Alternatives to Ossec

osquery, Splunk, Wazuh, Snort, and ELK are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Ossec.
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What is Ossec and what are its top alternatives?

It is a free, open-source host-based intrusion detection system. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response.
Ossec is a tool in the Security category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Ossec

  • osquery
    osquery

    osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. This allows you to write SQL-based queries to explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables represent abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open network connections, browser plugins, hardware events or file hashes. ...

  • Splunk
    Splunk

    It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data. ...

  • Wazuh
    Wazuh

    It is a free, open source and enterprise-ready security monitoring solution for threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response and compliance. ...

  • Snort
    Snort

    It is an open-source, free and lightweight network intrusion detection system (NIDS) software for Linux and Windows to detect emerging threats. ...

  • ELK
    ELK

    It is the acronym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a server‑side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to a "stash" like Elasticsearch. Kibana lets users visualize data with charts and graphs in Elasticsearch. ...

  • Fail2ban
    Fail2ban

    It is an intrusion prevention software framework that protects computer servers from brute-force attacks. Written in the Python programming language, it is able to run on POSIX systems that have an interface to a packet-control system or firewall installed locally, for example, iptables or TCP Wrapper. ...

  • Postman
    Postman

    It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide. ...

  • Postman
    Postman

    It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide. ...

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osquery

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Expose the operating system as a relational database (project of Linux Foundation)
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      Splunk

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      Search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data
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      PROS OF SPLUNK
      • 3
        API for searching logs, running reports
      • 3
        Alert system based on custom query results
      • 2
        Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc
      • 2
        Dashboarding on any log contents
      • 2
        Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing
      • 2
        Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc
      • 2
        Rich GUI for searching live logs
      • 2
        Ability to style search results into reports
      • 1
        Granular scheduling and time window support
      • 1
        Query any log as key-value pairs
      CONS OF SPLUNK
      • 1
        Splunk query language rich so lots to learn

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      KibanaKibanaSplunkSplunkGrafanaGrafana

      I use Kibana because it ships with the ELK stack. I don't find it as powerful as Splunk however it is light years above grepping through log files. We previously used Grafana but found it to be annoying to maintain a separate tool outside of the ELK stack. We were able to get everything we needed from Kibana.

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      SplunkSplunkElasticsearchElasticsearch

      We are currently exploring Elasticsearch and Splunk for our centralized logging solution. I need some feedback about these two tools. We expect our logs in the range of upwards > of 10TB of logging data.

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      Wazuh logo

      Wazuh

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      Open Source and enterprise-ready security monitoring solution
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      PROS OF WAZUH
      • 2
        Well documented
      • 2
        Open-source
      CONS OF WAZUH
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        WazuhWazuhAlienVaultAlienVault

        Considering a migration from AlienVault USM to Wazuh. Has anyone done this? Success? Failure? Lessons Learned?

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        Snort logo

        Snort

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        An open-source security software product that looks at network traffic in real time and logs packets to perform...
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            ELK

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            The acronym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
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            PROS OF ELK
            • 14
              Open source
            • 4
              Can run locally
            • 3
              Good for startups with monetary limitations
            • 1
              External Network Goes Down You Aren't Without Logging
            • 1
              Easy to setup
            • 0
              Json log supprt
            • 0
              Live logging
            CONS OF ELK
            • 5
              Elastic Search is a resource hog
            • 3
              Logstash configuration is a pain
            • 1
              Bad for startups with personal limitations

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            Wallace Alves
            Cyber Security Analyst · | 2 upvotes · 869.2K views

            Docker Docker Compose Portainer ELK Elasticsearch Kibana Logstash nginx

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            Fail2ban logo

            Fail2ban

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            An intrusion prevention software framework
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                Postman

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                • 490
                  Easy to use
                • 369
                  Great tool
                • 276
                  Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
                • 156
                  Easy setup, looks good
                • 144
                  The best api workflow out there
                • 53
                  It's the best
                • 53
                  History feature
                • 44
                  Adds real value to my workflow
                • 43
                  Great interface that magically predicts your needs
                • 35
                  The best in class app
                • 12
                  Can save and share script
                • 10
                  Fully featured without looking cluttered
                • 8
                  Collections
                • 8
                  Option to run scrips
                • 8
                  Global/Environment Variables
                • 7
                  Shareable Collections
                • 7
                  Dead simple and useful. Excellent
                • 7
                  Dark theme easy on the eyes
                • 6
                  Awesome customer support
                • 6
                  Great integration with newman
                • 5
                  Documentation
                • 5
                  Simple
                • 5
                  The test script is useful
                • 4
                  Saves responses
                • 4
                  This has simplified my testing significantly
                • 4
                  Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
                • 4
                  Easy as pie
                • 3
                  API-network
                • 3
                  I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
                • 3
                  Mocking API calls with predefined response
                • 2
                  Now supports GraphQL
                • 2
                  Postman Runner CI Integration
                • 2
                  Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
                • 2
                  Continuous integration using newman
                • 2
                  Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
                • 2
                  Runner
                • 2
                  Graph
                • 1
                  <a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>
                CONS OF POSTMAN
                • 10
                  Stores credentials in HTTP
                • 9
                  Bloated features and UI
                • 8
                  Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
                • 7
                  Poor GraphQL support
                • 5
                  Expensive
                • 3
                  Not free after 5 users
                • 3
                  Can't prompt for per-request variables
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                  Import swagger
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                  Support websocket
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                  Import curl

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                Engineering Manager at Segment · | 30 upvotes · 3M views

                We just launched the Segment Config API (try it out for yourself here) — a set of public REST APIs that enable you to manage your Segment configuration. A public API is only as good as its #documentation. For the API reference doc we are using Postman.

                Postman is an “API development environment”. You download the desktop app, and build API requests by URL and payload. Over time you can build up a set of requests and organize them into a “Postman Collection”. You can generalize a collection with “collection variables”. This allows you to parameterize things like username, password and workspace_name so a user can fill their own values in before making an API call. This makes it possible to use Postman for one-off API tasks instead of writing code.

                Then you can add Markdown content to the entire collection, a folder of related methods, and/or every API method to explain how the APIs work. You can publish a collection and easily share it with a URL.

                This turns Postman from a personal #API utility to full-blown public interactive API documentation. The result is a great looking web page with all the API calls, docs and sample requests and responses in one place. Check out the results here.

                Postman’s powers don’t end here. You can automate Postman with “test scripts” and have it periodically run a collection scripts as “monitors”. We now have #QA around all the APIs in public docs to make sure they are always correct

                Along the way we tried other techniques for documenting APIs like ReadMe.io or Swagger UI. These required a lot of effort to customize.

                Writing and maintaining a Postman collection takes some work, but the resulting documentation site, interactivity and API testing tools are well worth it.

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                Simon Reymann
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                • JSON Web Token for access token management

                The main reason we have chosen Node.js over PHP is related to the following artifacts:

                • Made for the web and widely in use: Node.js is a software platform for developing server-side network services. Well-known projects that rely on Node.js include the blogging software Ghost, the project management tool Trello and the operating system WebOS. Node.js requires the JavaScript runtime environment V8, which was specially developed by Google for the popular Chrome browser. This guarantees a very resource-saving architecture, which qualifies Node.js especially for the operation of a web server. Ryan Dahl, the developer of Node.js, released the first stable version on May 27, 2009. He developed Node.js out of dissatisfaction with the possibilities that JavaScript offered at the time. The basic functionality of Node.js has been mapped with JavaScript since the first version, which can be expanded with a large number of different modules. The current package managers (npm or Yarn) for Node.js know more than 1,000,000 of these modules.
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                • A language along the entire stack: Widely used frameworks such as React or AngularJS or Vue.js, which we prefer, are written in JavaScript/TypeScript. If Node.js is now used on the server side, you can use all the advantages of a uniform script language throughout the entire application development. The same language in the back- and frontend simplifies the maintenance of the application and also the coordination within the development team.
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                  Easy to use
                • 369
                  Great tool
                • 276
                  Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
                • 156
                  Easy setup, looks good
                • 144
                  The best api workflow out there
                • 53
                  It's the best
                • 53
                  History feature
                • 44
                  Adds real value to my workflow
                • 43
                  Great interface that magically predicts your needs
                • 35
                  The best in class app
                • 12
                  Can save and share script
                • 10
                  Fully featured without looking cluttered
                • 8
                  Collections
                • 8
                  Option to run scrips
                • 8
                  Global/Environment Variables
                • 7
                  Shareable Collections
                • 7
                  Dead simple and useful. Excellent
                • 7
                  Dark theme easy on the eyes
                • 6
                  Awesome customer support
                • 6
                  Great integration with newman
                • 5
                  Documentation
                • 5
                  Simple
                • 5
                  The test script is useful
                • 4
                  Saves responses
                • 4
                  This has simplified my testing significantly
                • 4
                  Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
                • 4
                  Easy as pie
                • 3
                  API-network
                • 3
                  I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
                • 3
                  Mocking API calls with predefined response
                • 2
                  Now supports GraphQL
                • 2
                  Postman Runner CI Integration
                • 2
                  Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
                • 2
                  Continuous integration using newman
                • 2
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                  Runner
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                  Graph
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                  <a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>
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                  Stores credentials in HTTP
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                  Bloated features and UI
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                  Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
                • 7
                  Poor GraphQL support
                • 5
                  Expensive
                • 3
                  Not free after 5 users
                • 3
                  Can't prompt for per-request variables
                • 1
                  Import swagger
                • 1
                  Support websocket
                • 1
                  Import curl

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                Noah Zoschke
                Engineering Manager at Segment · | 30 upvotes · 3M views

                We just launched the Segment Config API (try it out for yourself here) — a set of public REST APIs that enable you to manage your Segment configuration. A public API is only as good as its #documentation. For the API reference doc we are using Postman.

                Postman is an “API development environment”. You download the desktop app, and build API requests by URL and payload. Over time you can build up a set of requests and organize them into a “Postman Collection”. You can generalize a collection with “collection variables”. This allows you to parameterize things like username, password and workspace_name so a user can fill their own values in before making an API call. This makes it possible to use Postman for one-off API tasks instead of writing code.

                Then you can add Markdown content to the entire collection, a folder of related methods, and/or every API method to explain how the APIs work. You can publish a collection and easily share it with a URL.

                This turns Postman from a personal #API utility to full-blown public interactive API documentation. The result is a great looking web page with all the API calls, docs and sample requests and responses in one place. Check out the results here.

                Postman’s powers don’t end here. You can automate Postman with “test scripts” and have it periodically run a collection scripts as “monitors”. We now have #QA around all the APIs in public docs to make sure they are always correct

                Along the way we tried other techniques for documenting APIs like ReadMe.io or Swagger UI. These required a lot of effort to customize.

                Writing and maintaining a Postman collection takes some work, but the resulting documentation site, interactivity and API testing tools are well worth it.

                See more
                Simon Reymann
                Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 27 upvotes · 5.2M views

                Our whole Node.js backend stack consists of the following tools:

                • Lerna as a tool for multi package and multi repository management
                • npm as package manager
                • NestJS as Node.js framework
                • TypeScript as programming language
                • ExpressJS as web server
                • Swagger UI for visualizing and interacting with the API’s resources
                • Postman as a tool for API development
                • TypeORM as object relational mapping layer
                • JSON Web Token for access token management

                The main reason we have chosen Node.js over PHP is related to the following artifacts:

                • Made for the web and widely in use: Node.js is a software platform for developing server-side network services. Well-known projects that rely on Node.js include the blogging software Ghost, the project management tool Trello and the operating system WebOS. Node.js requires the JavaScript runtime environment V8, which was specially developed by Google for the popular Chrome browser. This guarantees a very resource-saving architecture, which qualifies Node.js especially for the operation of a web server. Ryan Dahl, the developer of Node.js, released the first stable version on May 27, 2009. He developed Node.js out of dissatisfaction with the possibilities that JavaScript offered at the time. The basic functionality of Node.js has been mapped with JavaScript since the first version, which can be expanded with a large number of different modules. The current package managers (npm or Yarn) for Node.js know more than 1,000,000 of these modules.
                • Fast server-side solutions: Node.js adopts the JavaScript "event-loop" to create non-blocking I/O applications that conveniently serve simultaneous events. With the standard available asynchronous processing within JavaScript/TypeScript, highly scalable, server-side solutions can be realized. The efficient use of the CPU and the RAM is maximized and more simultaneous requests can be processed than with conventional multi-thread servers.
                • A language along the entire stack: Widely used frameworks such as React or AngularJS or Vue.js, which we prefer, are written in JavaScript/TypeScript. If Node.js is now used on the server side, you can use all the advantages of a uniform script language throughout the entire application development. The same language in the back- and frontend simplifies the maintenance of the application and also the coordination within the development team.
                • Flexibility: Node.js sets very few strict dependencies, rules and guidelines and thus grants a high degree of flexibility in application development. There are no strict conventions so that the appropriate architecture, design structures, modules and features can be freely selected for the development.
                See more