What is Snort?
It is an open-source, free and lightweight network intrusion detection system (NIDS) software for Linux and Windows to detect emerging threats.
Snort is a tool in the Network Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Snort is an open source tool with 2.6K GitHub stars and 566 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Snort's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Snort?
Companies
Developers
34 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Snort.
Snort's Features
- Intrusion Agent
- IPSx
- IPS
- NGIPS
- IPS detection and blocking
Snort Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Snort?
Ossec
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.
Splunk
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New Relic
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Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
