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Suricata
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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Suricata
Free
Free and open source; GPLv2
Read 30 Sep 2026 · suricata.io
On the record
- Audience
- The project describes its community as including home users, corporate and government users, developers, researchers, and third-party tooling developers.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Current release
- The page lists Suricata 8.0.7 as the stable release, released September 15, 2026.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Embedded use
- The project says Suricata integrates with networks and can be embedded in commercial and open source solutions.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- License
- The project says Suricata is licensed under GPLv2 and permits users to run, copy, modify, and distribute the software under its stated open source freedoms.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Network monitoring
- Suricata can log HTTP requests, DNS queries and responses, and TLS certificate and exchange data, and can extract files from network flows.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Non-GPL licensing
- OISF offers non-GPL licensing for organizations that want to use Suricata in their products without violating GPL.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Output and integrations
- Its EVE output is JSON event and alert data designed for integration with Logstash and similar tools.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Project owner
- The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), a nonprofit, owns the code and supports the Suricata project.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Protocol detection
- Suricata automatically detects protocols such as HTTP on any port and applies detection and logging logic.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Suricata is a high performance, open source network analysis and threat detection engine used for network IDS, IPS, and security monitoring.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Rule detection
- It uses a signature language to match known threats, policy violations, and malicious behavior, and can detect traffic anomalies.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- The project directs users to its community forum for community support and also lists a Discord server.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Supported platforms
- The download page lists source for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, UNIX, and Windows, plus a Windows 64-bit installer.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Traffic capacity
- A single Suricata instance can inspect multi-gigabit traffic and supports multi-threading and hardware acceleration.suricata.io · read 30 Sep 2026
