Wazuh plus osquery is powerful if you have the technical appetite. It gives control, transparency and a lot of telemetry without a license bill. But it is not a one-button security team. Someone must host it, tune it, explain it, turn findings into tasks and make the evidence usable for management or auditors.
Free software, but not free operations; workflow, reporting and remediation are buyer-owned
Self-hosted open-source use can avoid license fees, while Wazuh Cloud publishes paid plans starting at $571/month; operations and hosting still matter.
Wazuh + osquery is strongest in its core category. If the goal is audit-ready evidence, supplier risk, backup proof or cross-tool remediation, pair it with a separate evidence workflow rather than expecting this tool to cover the whole compliance program.
Evidence, remediation and reporting layer when this tool needs to support audits.