Security Onion

Open platform for threat hunting, security monitoring, and log management.

Data confidence100/100
Source coverage100/100
Publish confidence100/100
Evidence checkedJul 28, 2026
Pricing checkedNo current pricing evidence
Score Breakdown

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These bars are a reader-facing view of the ToolVitals evidence model. They summarize maintenance, shipping, confidence, and decay signals. Hosted pricing evidence is shown separately.

Activity
Recent commits, releases, changelog, package, and product-motion signals.
Reliability
Maintenance posture from recency, release evidence, availability, and repo signals.
Adoption
Public footprint from GitHub stars, forks, and watchers when available.
Sustainability
Longer-term posture combining health, activity, adoption, confidence, and decay risk.
ToolVitals70/100Health78/100Shipping36/100Zombie Risk0/100
Overall Score 70 Warning
Activity 36
Reliability 78
Adoption 76
Sustainability 72

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About this tool

What ToolVitals knows about Security Onion

Open platform for threat hunting, security monitoring, and log management.

ToolVitals has not verified an OSI-approved, source-available, fair-code, or open-core license signal yet.

The tool is still alive, but signs of slower momentum are visible.

Source-visible project Security Monitoring & Threat Hunting License unknown Scored Intelligence
Repository

GitHub Activity

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Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion
Stars 4,773
Forks 667
Watchers 4,773
Open Issues 73
Primary Language
Shell
Last Commit
Today
Releases 90d
2
Default Branch
3/main
License
Other
Repository Status
Active repository
Evidence

Signal Quality

Data Confidence 100/100 Strong
Source Coverage 100/100 Strong
Publish Confidence 100/100 Strong

ConfidenceHigh-confidence score from multiple public signals.

Zombie RiskNo meaningful zombie signal right now.

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License Evidence

Class
License unknown
License
Other
Pricing Scope
No hosted pricing tracked

ToolVitals has not verified an OSI-approved, source-available, fair-code, or open-core license signal yet.

Sources

Tracked Sources

Profile

Classification

Category
Security
Use Case
Security Monitoring & Threat Hunting
Openness
License unknown
License
Other
Pricing Scope
No hosted pricing tracked
Tool Mode
Source-visible project
Score Model
Open Source Maintenance
Score Visibility
Scored Intelligence
Status
Warning
Hosted Pricing

Pricing Evidence

Scope
No hosted pricing tracked
Free Tier
Not detected
Currency
USD
Tracked Plans
0
Maintainers

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Tags
securitymonitoringlog-managementthreat-huntingopen-sourcecase-managementcyber-securityendpoint-securityinformation-securityintrusion-detection-systemnetwork-securitysecurity-toolssiemintrusion-detectionincident-investigation

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