Wazuh agents provide enterprise-grade, multi-platform security monitoring with sophisticated log collection, parsing, and forwarding capabilities designed for XDR/OXDR platforms. This analysis reveals that Wazuh employs a modular architecture capable of processing 50,000+ events per second while maintaining minimal system overhead (35MB RAM average) and AES-256 encrypted communications. The platform's open-source nature, combined with extensive SIEM integration capabilities and MITRE ATT&CK framework alignment, positions it as a viable alternative to commercial endpoint detection solutions.
Wazuh implements a distributed, modular agent architecture where specialized daemons handle distinct security monitoring functions. The core logging subsystem centers around the wazuh-logcollector
daemon, which operates through multiple collection engines supporting diverse log formats and sour