How to automate Wazuh alert triage with AI (safely)
A practical guide to reduce alert fatigue in Wazuh SIEM using agentic triage, correlation, and human-approved response plans — without exposing your SOC to risky auto-remediation.
Why Wazuh alert storms happen
Wazuh is excellent at collecting signals: endpoint telemetry, auth logs, file integrity events, vulnerability scans, and more. But once detections ramp up, analysts end up doing the same repetitive work:
- Read the alert
- Extract the key entities (IP, user, host, process)
- Check if it’s related to earlier alerts
- Decide if it’s noise or real risk
- Draft a response plan (often in a ticket)
What “AI triage” should mean in a SOC
The goal is not to let an LLM “click buttons” on your behalf. The goal is to:
- Summarize alerts consistently
- Extract entities reliably
- Correlate related detections into a single case
- Propose a response plan with clear risk notes
- Gate execution behind approvals and policies
The Autopilot workflow
Wazuh OpenClaw Autopilot follows a pipeline that’s easy to reason about:
Alert Ingestion → Triage → Correlation → Investigation
↓
Response Planner → Policy Guard → Human Approval → Responder
Step 1: Triage (extract entities + assign severity)
Triage creates a clean “case summary” from raw Wazuh alert payloads. That summary should include:
- What happened
- Who/what is involved (entities)
- What’s the impact if true
- What to do next
Step 2: Correlate related alerts into a case
Analysts don’t want 50 separate alerts. They want one incident. Correlation links alerts that share entities or represent stages of the same attack, producing a timeline and a single case ID.
Step 3: Generate a response plan (proposal only)
Response planning is where a lot of SOC time disappears. Autopilot generates a risk-assessed plan that can include recommended Wazuh Active Response actions — but keeps it as a proposal until approved.
Step 4: Policy guard + approvals (safety at scale)
Policies define what actions are allowed in your environment. Approvals make sure humans remain in control. This is how you get SOC speed without waking up to a self-inflicted outage.
Step 5: Evidence packs (auditability)
Every case produces a structured evidence pack: entities, timeline, MITRE mapping, plans, and actions. This is valuable for audits, post-incident reports, and compliance workflows.
Deploy it
If you want to try this workflow, start with the Quickstart and the alert triage use case: