Visualize, analyze and search your host IDS alerts. Elastic Stack is the combination of three popular Open Source projects for log management, known as Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana(ELK). Together they provide a real-time and user-friendly console for your OSSEC alerts. OSSEC Wazuh integration with Elastic Stack comes with out-of-the-box dashboards for PCI DSS compliance and CIS benchmarks. You can do forensic and historical analysis of OSSEC alerts and store your data for several years, in a reliable and scalable platform. This post is updating a pervious post of mine using Wazuh 1.0 and version 2.0 of the ELK stack. This post will contain a general setup and configuration for a central logging server.
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