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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

Overview

What is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

ADAudit Plus offers real-time monitoring, user and entity behaviour analytics, and change audit reports that helps users keep AD and IT infrastructure secure and compliant.Track all changes to Windows AD objects including users, groups, computers, GPOs, and OUs.Achieve hybrid AD monitoring with…

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Pricing

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Standard

$595

On Premise
per year

Professional

$945

On Premise
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $595 per year
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Features

Monitoring Tasks

Various types of monitoring

7.3
Avg 7.8

Management Tasks

Various tasks required to keep systems running smoothly

8.5
Avg 7.4

Reporting

Report generation to help with system monitoring tasks

8.2
Avg 7.6

Security

Management of security aspects of system monitoring

6.5
Avg 6.3
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Product Details

What is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

ADAudit Plus offers real-time monitoring, user and entity behaviour analytics, and change audit reports that helps users keep AD and IT infrastructure secure and compliant.

  • Track all changes to Windows AD objects including users, groups, computers, GPOs, and OUs.
  • Achieve hybrid AD monitoring with a single, correlated view of all the activities happening across both on-premises AD and Azure AD.
  • Monitor every user's logon and logoff activity, including every successful and failed login attempt across network workstations.
  • Audit Windows file servers, failover clusters, NetApp, and EMC storage to document changes to files and folders.
  • Monitor system configurations, program files, and folder changes to ensure file integrity.
  • Track changes across Windows servers, printers, and USB devices with a summary of events.
  • Leverage advanced statistical analysis and machine learning techniques to detect anomalous behaviour and defend against cyber attacks.

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Features

Monitoring Tasks Features

  • Supported: Remote monitoring
  • Supported: Network device monitoring
  • Supported: Multiple Server Monitoring
  • Supported: Multi-device monitoring
  • Supported: Automated alerts and notifications

Management Tasks Features

  • Supported: Service configuration management
  • Supported: Policy-based automation

Reporting Features

  • Supported: Performance data reports
  • Supported: Customizable reporting
  • Supported: Data visualization
  • Supported: Risk analysis

Security Features

  • Supported: Administrator access control

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Screenshots

Screenshot of Active Directory AuditingScreenshot of Track Account LockoutsScreenshot of Logon MonitoringScreenshot of Audit User PrivilegesScreenshot of PCI - DSS Compliance

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Video

Redinet's testimonial about ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus starts at $595.

Netwrix Auditor, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM), and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) are common alternatives for ManageEngine ADAudit Plus.

Reviewers rate Multiple Server Monitoring highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 44)

Simple and Cheap AD Reporting.

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 06, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
5 years of experience
We use AdAudit to centrally repository all Active Directory user and system events. And do monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting on user interactions, permission changes, account creations, and deletions. And for helping find where people get locked out. Great tool for AD reporting all around! You can create reports in various file formats; pdf, csv, xls, etc for the necessary consumption needs.
  • AD reporting.
  • Live user account event research and review.
  • network drive access permission changes.
Cons
  • some of the reports have bugs and have been long-standing issues not resolved for years.
  • web portal has not really changed in look & feel in years.
  • not always the easiest to customize reports.
Active Directory environments ADAudit works very well. For workgroups, it won't always work the best. Pricing is very scalable for an organization of any size and growth pattern to do reporting and AD analysis. With the new offer for cloud and on-prem installation services any company can get in on this tools' use for an attractive price.

ManageEngine ADAudit Review - Perfect for Windows shops!

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 17, 2021
JF
Vetted Review
Verified User
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
5 years of experience
Don't be put off by the somewhat archaic user interface, the application itself is a top-notch log auditing solution for Windows shops, and can even track non-Windows log entries as a syslog server. We use it for security audits, accreditation and validation audits, and internally when we need to conduct an investigation into an event or a user that has "exceeded process parameters" (breaking or slacking off, respectively). It's a solid, versatile tool that gets the job done and has a tremendous amount of useful reports already prepared from day one.
  • Extremely detailed event log tracking.
  • Excellent ad hoc reporting with great filters.
  • Useful dashboards that help find unknown issues.
Cons
  • The UI is a bit clunky.
  • Installing SSL/TLS certs is less than optimal.
The number one use we have for it is in our periodic security reviews - we routinely check the logs for any anomalies, and ADAudit Plus is the tool of choice for me and for my team to get the ball rolling. We can check the dashboards for any out of the ordinary events, dig deeper into the actual log behaviors of the machines and users we manage, and then report the findings into CSV or XLSX format for further analysis or presentation.

ManageEngine ADAudit plus is a great product

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 19, 2024
TS
Vetted Review
Verified User
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
1 year of experience
ManageEngine ADAudit plus has become an integral part of my day to day operations, it's used heavily on assisting our service desk team and the business as a whole with simple yet complex tasks such as unknown account lock outs, Reports of user activity i.e. logon and logoff reports, scheduling of reports, folder permission statuses. This has become a much needed tool in the technology arena.
  • Reporting
  • File Audits
  • Summary view of activity
Cons
  • User activity report - for some users no data is generated
  • Scheduling reporting - don't always generate the report when times are set
During the pandemic after being instructed to work from home, it became a bit challenging for departments to track employee activity, the business approached IT for a solution which we quickly constructed using ManageEngine ADAudit reports "Logon Logoff activity" this provided the business with some clarity on attendance and absences.

Active Directory Auditing and compliance at an attractive price.

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 09, 2023
AN
Vetted Review
Verified User
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
10 years of experience
We use ADAudit Plus to actively monitor our on-prem and Azure instances of Active Directory. We utilize the tool to provide alert and logging functions for multiple Active Directory user events as well as detect unexpected configuration changes to our Active Directory configuration. The tool also provides detailed account reports that can be utilized as evidence during an audit. The reports contain details such as who, what and when was changed for user, computer and groups as well as objects such as GPOs, etc. The tool also provides additional functionality such as analytic alerts and reports for anomalous user activity, file and server audits and FIM. We find this tool to be invaluable in monitoring the state of our Active Directory environment and it has helped us thwart intrusion events and malicious activity. This tool is invaluable for monitoring and auditing your Active Directory environment and it is available at a very competitive price.
  • Activity reporting
  • Alerting on anomalies and unexpected events
  • Ease of deployment and configuration
  • Excellent end user support
Cons
  • Custom alerts can be difficult to write/configure
  • Would like to see more complex alerting for common AD attacks such as Kerberosting, etc.
This audit solution is appropriate for both small and large institutions. It can provide excellent audit reports that are easily obtained and provide clear details of the who, what, when. There are other solutions that are a bit more robust when it comes to detecting and alerting on malicious activity but for the cost and customizable options, ADAudit Plus is hard to beat. I have successfully used this product to detect and thwart intrusion events. If configured correctly, it can provide robust detection and alerting capabilities.

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Is an Excellent and Must Have Solution!

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 26, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
4 years of experience
Our company uses this product in multiple ways. We use it from a security and auditing perspective to monitor Windows logons to critical Windows devices, monitor account lockouts on how often they are occurring down to the source of the authentication and monitoring real-time changes in our Windows environment. From an auditing perspective we monitor file changes to critical locations, privileged user monitoring, peripheral device auditing and starting to integrate and use it in our cloud environments as well. The problems this products address for us are is provides us with deeper reporting then we used to have all of the auditing/security options available wit the product. The reporting is pretty deep, informative and easy to understand for all levels of management. Our scope and use case was for more enhanced reporting options from a security and auditing perspective in which this product excelled at for us and our needs.
  • Windows Logon Monitoring
  • File Change Monitoring
  • Privileged User Monitoring
  • USB Auditing
  • Reporting
Cons
  • Improve the initial setup as we had a few issues
  • The Managing File Server activity could be improved
  • Web portal needs to be updated from a look & feel perspective
  • Upgrade the custom reports
The ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solution is well suited for us when it comes to all of the security and auditing features and capabilities. Being in a highly regulated industry, having the access and the visibility this solution provides is so needed and very important. Also, the name carries weight as well with auditors as they are aware of the product and its capabilities as well. It currently has no areas for us as to being not appropriate.
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