TrustRadius Insights for ManageEngine ADAudit Plus are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
User-Friendly Interface: Users have praised the software for its intuitive interface, which allows for easy management delegation, reporting, and customization of reports to suit specific needs effectively. The simplicity of navigating through various features has been particularly noted as a time-saving aspect by users.
Comprehensive Reporting Capabilities: Reviewers have highlighted the detailed insights provided by the reporting features, such as file audits and active directory audits. These capabilities enhance user and group management changes significantly. For instance, being able to generate custom reports based on Active Directory changes was specifically mentioned as a valuable feature.
Real-Time Alerts and Detailed Logs: The tool's real-time alerts, combined with detailed logs, were commended by users for enhancing the overall monitoring and auditing experience through timely notifications and in-depth activity tracking. Users found that receiving immediate alerts on critical events allowed them to respond swiftly to potential security issues, improving their overall system security posture.
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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Reviews
29 Reviews
Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)
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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.
Pros
Audit-Logs.
Tracking User Activities.
Tracking Admin Activities.
Cons
Reporting function.
Understanding how to cleanup space.
More support for cloud.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited at onprem but less at the cloud.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
We use this to track and managed failed/unusual sign ins and unusual activity within our estate
Pros
User Audit tracking - logon/log off events
unusual azure logon activity
unusual file activity
AD changes
Cons
Easier understanding of report creation
more modern interface
Likelihood to Recommend
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is useful in identifying who changed what and when within AD and Azure AD. It is helpful in identifying why logins fail and allow easier resolution. Tracking of anomalous behaviour.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
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.
Pros
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
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
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.
Pros
Logging
Reporting
Alerting
Cons
Steep learning curve
alerting customization
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very cost effective solution, it covers most of our needs compared to competitors at a fraction of the price. It requires a bit of work to get to a great place as far as relevant information
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
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.
Pros
bad password/username monitoring
file access monitoring
logon activity monitoring
Cons
a security hardening section like other ManageEngine products
make the user interface more similar between other ManageEngine products
a little more detail in reports
Likelihood to Recommend
It's been a great tool for monitoring Active Directory logins and access to files on our servers. I receive daily reports on failed logins which helps to find users with expired passwords that could be logged in to multiple computers and causing constant failed logins. As well as bad usernames which is very helpful to identify unwanted logins on computers or attempts by certain users that should not be logging in at all. We monitor access to sensitive HR and CEO files.
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.
Pros
Data capture against a wide variety of sources (logs, events, windows, Linux systems)
Ability to find specific events in the logs
Basically unlimited history
Useful dashboard (although not really once you dig into it)
Cons
It's based on Java engine that is slow -- reports are often difficult to build (we are going to upgrade the machine it's running on to see if this is the issue)
Keeping this software up to date is a pain; there should be a better "update" function
The naming and navigation are terrible -- it's never clear which feature you're looking for and where it's hidden in the menus
Adding machines is not as easy as it should be; occasionally there are IP conflicts that are nearly impossible to resolve
Likelihood to Recommend
ManageEngine is mostly a "check the box" solution for SIEM systems. We needed something that satisfied our customer and was cost-effective. I would highly rate the system on "worth what paid for". Support is eager to please and prompt. My only issue is that it's mostly based outside the US with helpful, but non-native speakers so it's hard to understand them. I wish they would spring for better help "phone lines" so I'm not dealing with difficult to understand and unclear speakers.
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.
Pros
Dashboard
Reports
Alerts
Cons
The self SSL certificate is a bit tricky
I think the KB is outdated
Likelihood to Recommend
The instant alerts when something happens is great, it has good details on what and who did the change or event. Can't think of a scenario where it is less appropriate.
We warn users when their passwords are about to expire. Also, track who is logged onto a server when an anomaly occurs. Administrator account login failures are also tracked.
Pros
Account auditing
Account expiration
Account reporting
Cons
Nothing at this time
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for account auditing and reporting. I have not found anything I do not like.
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.
Pros
Monitors network activity in real time.
The dashboard is clean and customizable.
It doesn't require many resources to run.
Cons
The process to update the software could be a little cleaner.
I'd like to be able to suppress certain alerts.
Likelihood to Recommend
ADAudit is one of the most important tools in my arsenal regarding network security. I'm impressed by how quickly it is able to alert me if changes are made on the network. I use this tool every day as my first line of defense for cybersecurity.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
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.
Pros
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
