How I built a production-ready Wazuh SIEM on Docker (with custom rules for VMware, AWS and GCP)

Most Wazuh tutorials stop at "here's how to spin up the containers." That's fine for a demo, but getting it to actually monitor your infrastructure — with meaningful alerts, automated agent deployment, and cloud integrations — is a different story.

I spent a few weeks assembling everything into a single repo: wazuh-docker-monitoring-platform . Here's what it includes and why I built each piece.

The problem with most Wazuh setups

Out of the box, Wazuh gives you generic Linux alerts. Useful, but noisy.…