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Shinken vs snort

A side-by-side look at Shinken and snort. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Shinken

Shinken

Network & Admin

Shinken is an open-source monitoring framework that is compatible with Nagios configuration and plugins. It is designed to scale to large environments with thousands of hosts and services. Shinken leverages distributed architecture to improve performance over Nagios.

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snort

snort

Security & Privacy

Snort is an open-source network intrusion detection and prevention system. It can perform real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks to detect suspicious activity and attacks.

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