Trusted by over 60,000 organizations worldwide with more than 8,100 GitHub stars since 2010, Graylog has established itself as one of the fastest paths from raw log data to operational visibility, delivering centralized log management, security analytics, and compliance auditing through a purpose-built web interface with sub-second search at scale. The platform ingests logs from virtually any source via syslog, GELF, Beats, raw TCP/UDP, HTTP, CEF, IPFIX, and Netflow protocols, processing each message through configurable pipelines that parse fields, apply transformations, enrich events with GeoIP data from MaxMind or IPinfo lookup tables, and route messages to appropriate streams based on content rules. OpenSearch handles full-text indexing and storage with dynamic shard sizing that automatically calculates appropriate sizes from available node memory, while MongoDB stores configuration metadata including user accounts, roles, dashboards, alert rules, and pipeline definitions. The alerting system integrates with Slack, PagerDuty, and email with customizable notification templates and Replay Search links for immediate investigation context. Version 7.0 introduced MCP server integration for connecting preferred LLMs to perform AI-assisted log analysis and automation, while version 7.1 added Sigma detection rule import from private GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories for detection-as-code workflows. The Sidecar agent management system centrally configures and deploys Filebeat, Winlogbeat, and nxlog collectors across infrastructure from the Graylog web interface. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. SSPL licensed.

Protecting over 10,000 organizations worldwide with 16,000+ GitHub stars, Wazuh delivers enterprise-grade security operations through a fully open-source platform with zero feature gating. The unified XDR and SIEM solution deploys lightweight agents across Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX endpoints that stream security telemetry to a centralized cluster built on OpenSearch for indexing and the Wazuh Dashboard for visualization and management. Core capabilities include real-time file integrity monitoring with inotify-based detection and who-data attribution, automated vulnerability assessment that correlates software inventories against continuously updated CVE databases, Security Configuration Assessment against CIS benchmarks, rootkit detection, and log data analysis with a rules engine supporting over 3,000 built-in detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques. Wazuh monitors cloud infrastructure at the API level with native modules for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, detects container anomalies through Docker engine integration, and ingests third-party telemetry via syslog and REST APIs from sources like VirusTotal, TheHive, YARA, Suricata, and PagerDuty. Pre-built compliance dashboards and reports cover PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, GDPR, and TSC frameworks. Active response capabilities automatically trigger countermeasures including firewall rule updates, account lockouts, and endpoint isolation when threats are detected. The platform scales horizontally with multi-node clustering for high availability. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.