chainsaw
Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Forensic Artefacts (by WithSecureLabs)
Wazuh
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads. (by wazuh)
| chainsaw | Wazuh | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 156 | |
| 3,131 | 12,346 | |
| 1.6% | 2.5% | |
| 8.5 | 10.0 | |
| 19 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Rust | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
chainsaw
Posts with mentions or reviews of chainsaw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-29.
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Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
There’s already a DFIR log tool named chainsaw: https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw
- Agent event queue is flooded. Check the agent configuration
- What's your favorite cybersecurity tool?
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Tools for "static" log analysis
https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw if you're just looking for bad stuff.
- Chainsaw v2.0 Release - Hunt and Search Through Windows Event Logs
- Chainsaw v2.0.0 - Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Event Logs
- Chainsaw 2.0: Allows users to rapidly search through Windows event logs and hunt for threats using Sigma detection rules.
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EvtxHussar 1.0
Differences between this and Chainsaw? Chainsaw
- IR log Collection/Parsing Recommendations
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AMA : I’m a cybersecurity engineer at Microsoft .
Use Chainsaw for event logs https://github.com/countercept/chainsaw
Wazuh
Posts with mentions or reviews of Wazuh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-18.
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Wazuh: Your Open-Source Security Superhero
View the Project on GitHub
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Google to Buy Wiz for $32B
There's Wazuh[0][1], but it's more of an XDR (i.e. anti-virus) and SIEM solution than what Wiz is offering.
[0] https://wazuh.com/
[1] https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh
- Wazuh – open-source Security Platform
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Secure and Resilient Design
To manage these events, we need to have an appropriate system called SIEM (Security Information and Event Management). One of the best open-source solutions is Wazuh.
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Exclude certain CIS (sca) rules from agents
There is currently no feature for excluding specific SCA rules however this feature has been requested here and would be added to the roadmap for future releases.
- Deployment issue
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Greenbone
I use Wazuh instead. Greenbone CE is severely limited and requires payment for anything beyond the very basic. Super simple installation more features.
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Update vulnerability databases through proxy with authentication
Seems like something that should be documented somewhere more official than a random reddit post for sure. Added it to https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/issues/1112 for good measure.
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💻 Introducing Wazuh 4.7.0.
Hmm, I've really been wanting to try Wazuh but since all our endpoints (Win10/11) are running a German locale I've run into https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/issues/16842 when checking the compliance checks (CIS benchmarks) on a test installation of 4.6.
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Risks of hosting a website out of my house
Monitoring & Active Measures - Exporting firewall events to an external time-series database like I describe above is good to see who is touching your firewall or accessing your web site. Using an Intrusion Detection System / Intrusion Prevention System (IDS/IPS) such as open-source Suricata, which is a free package on pfSense, and deploying file system integrity monitoring, such as the open-source Wazuh on the exposed server are also good approaches to protecting yourself.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chainsaw and Wazuh you can also consider the following projects:
hayabusa - Hayabusa (隼) is a sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics timeline generator for Windows event logs.
crowdsec - CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.
EnableWindowsLogSettings - Documentation and scripts to properly enable Windows event logs.
Snort - Snort++
WELA - Windows Event Log Auditor
opencti - Open Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform