Velociraptor
By Rapid7
An AGPL-licensed DFIR and endpoint-visibility tool built around VQL, a query language for hunting and collecting forensic artifacts across many endpoints at once. Rapid7 acquired the Velocidex team in 2021 and continues to maintain the project.
- Product type
- Software
- Deployment
- On-premAgent
- Organization size
- Mid-marketEnterprise
- Pricing tier
- Free
How Velociraptor measures up against the full Endpoint & Extended Detection and Response taxonomy.
- Behavioral detection — not supported
- Flags malicious behavior patterns rather than known file signatures.
- Threat hunting — supported
- Lets analysts query historical endpoint telemetry for signs of compromise.
- Remote response actions — supported
- Isolate a host, kill a process, or pull files from an endpoint remotely.
- Ransomware rollback — not supported
- Restores files encrypted or modified by detected ransomware.
- Cross-surface correlation (XDR) — not supported
- Correlates endpoint signals with identity, email, and cloud telemetry.
- Managed detection option — not supported
- Vendor-operated 24/7 monitoring available (MDR).
Alternatives
Other Endpoint & Extended Detection and Response tools with overlapping capabilities, sized for similar teams.