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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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Recent Reviews

Good tool

8 out of 10
February 29, 2024
Incentivized
Auditing Admin Activities, Ransomware Protection, Auditing malicious user activities, and changes on systems. The audit tracking from …
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ADAudit Plus Review

9 out of 10
February 24, 2024
Incentivized
We have two products. One for the Domain controllers and the second for the file servers. ADAudit Plus collects all of our data, logs, …
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Popular Features

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  • Data visualization (42)
    9.0
    90%
  • Administrator access control (45)
    8.8
    88%
  • Customizable reporting (47)
    7.8
    78%
  • Automated alerts and notifications (45)
    7.1
    71%

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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

7.9
Avg 8.4

Management Tasks

Various tasks required to keep systems running smoothly

8.9
Avg 8.5

Reporting

Report generation to help with system monitoring tasks

8.5
Avg 8.3

Security

Management of security aspects of system monitoring

6.6
Avg 7.6
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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 9.2.

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

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Reviews

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February 29, 2024

Good tool

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Auditing Admin Activities, Ransomware Protection, Auditing malicious user activities, and changes on systems. The audit tracking from admin and user activities is, in my opinion, an important feature. It delivers a clear sight of everything, and you can reproduce every change in each system. The reporting engine is easy to use and can be used by everyone without learning.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We Use ADAudit Plus to audit our AD on-prem and see who did what on accounts. This also allows us to track login attempts from an external source. We also use this platform to help manage stale accounts and accounts with too much privilege. We are also able to see what server users and admins are logging in.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This product is used to monitor anything to do with AD
We rely on the alerts of new and disabled users as verification of our automation system.
We use the feature of Auditing selected key servers to find out when permissions change and by who.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been a ManageEngine ADAudit Plus customer for over eight years and have used it to monitor protected Active Directory groups. The groups that we primarily monitor are groups that have elevated privileges within Active Directory, such as Domain Admins, Domain Operators, and groups that have privileges to reset passwords. If a member is removed or added to one of these groups ManageEngine ADAudit Plus will generate an email alert that goes out to system admins.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
February 26, 2024

Great bang for the buck.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it mostly for an information trail. It helps us troubleshoot, accidental deletions on our file server and changes to our Active Directory environment. Recently have been setting up more alerting around permission changes on objects and User creation activities.
February 26, 2024

AD Auditing Easily

Neil Shepherd | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ManageEngine ADAudit Plus to keep a record of logins in our data centre. This is data that we could never keep track of manually and the product does a great job. There are also some users who may not work outside of their specific hours. This allows us to report on this effectively. A 3rd aspect is troubleshooting failed RDS logins. We can track the journey more effectively.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used ManageEngine ADAudit Plus in our organization for quite a few years. The product provides excellent granular visibility into all things Active Directory. We use the product on a daily basis and are very happy with what we can get out of the product.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ManageEngine ADAudit Plus to audit our user logins, password changes, group membership changes, and a whole ton more. We utilize ManageEngine ADAudit Plus to make sure we have a log of all our administrators changes to the any file systems and also to track any rogue or hijacked accounts in the case of a security breach.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We monitor access to domain controllers and especially sensitive files on our file server. It has helped to identify when if anyone accessed or attempted to access sensitive files. It has also helped in monitoring password and username failures. We have several daily reports we use for these.
Ken Lubar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ManageEngine as an SIEM system for reporting on AD and other events. Various of our customers require SIEM systems and ManageEngine met the needs. It's pretty lightweight. We have about 50 workstations and 2 active AD controllers. Not a lot of usage against the ManageEngine but it mostly does the job. See later in the review for the good, bad, and ugly.
February 24, 2024

ADAudit Plus Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have two products. One for the Domain controllers and the second for the file servers. ADAudit Plus collects all of our data, logs, logins, changes in out domain, changes in permissions, any suspicious activity. It also sends us alerts vis Email or SMS. We also using the reports to see if there is something not as usual.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
To quickly review/investigate changes made to user accounts, groups, computers, and NetApp directories. Get immediate alerts upon changes to critical accounts, etc. Investigate account and password lockout issues. Export required reports in pdf or excel format.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use ADAudit Plus to monitor attempts to access administrative accounts and notify via email. It also helps troubleshoot accounts that are continuously locked out and other anomalies on the network. It's great for monitoring who is accessing files from our file servers as well as our QNAP NAS. Any time an admin makes a change to Group Policy, I'm notified via the change was made, by whom, and what specifically was altered.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for checking logins and auditing account usage. When did this user login? How many times did this user try to login today? Was this user logged in at this time? The feature used mose on this product for us is login activity tracking.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to audit the system (changes) and the techs who are in charge of doing accounts, moving accounts, creating computers. etc.
Gives us a deeper dive into the stuff that happens in AD w/out us realizing. We utilize this tool a lot!
Aaron Nielson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
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