If you’ve deployed Wazuh and are greeted with the frustrating “Kibana server is not ready yet” message instead of the dashboard, you’re not alone. Although modern Wazuh releases use Wazuh…
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Wazuh Security Configuration Assessment (SCA) is one of the platform’s most valuable compliance and hardening features. It allows organizations to continuously evaluate systems against security benchmarks such as CIS controls,…
Wazuh Syslog Port 514 is one of the most common methods organizations use to forward logs from network devices, security appliances, servers, and infrastructure components into Wazuh for centralized monitoring…
When building custom detections in Wazuh, one of the most frustrating problems is creating a decoder that appears correct but refuses to match logs during testing. You run the event…
Splunk and Wazuh are frequently deployed together in enterprise security environments to improve log collection, threat detection, security monitoring, and incident response. While both platforms can complement each other effectively,…
Filebeat connection refused errors are among the most common data ingestion problems encountered in Wazuh deployments. When Filebeat cannot establish a connection to the Wazuh Indexer, security events stop flowing…
Microsoft Graph API has become a critical data source for organizations that rely on Microsoft 365 services such as Azure Active Directory, Exchange Online, Microsoft Defender, SharePoint, and Teams. Wazuh…
Slack integrations are one of the most popular ways to receive real-time security alerts from Wazuh. Instead of constantly monitoring the dashboard, security teams can automatically send critical alerts to…
A Wazuh Manager core dump is one of the clearest indicators that something has gone seriously wrong inside the Wazuh server. When a critical Wazuh process crashes unexpectedly, the operating…
A healthy Wazuh deployment depends heavily on the stability of the Wazuh Indexer cluster. When administrators log in to the dashboard and discover a yellow cluster status accompanied by unassigned…