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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

Active Directory change audit and reporting software

Last updated: April 2025

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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus - 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: April 2025

What is ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is an online Active Directory change audit solution, providing comprehensive reports on most changes that occur in Windows Active Directory. The platform allows users to examine every change, while ensuring the changes made conform with IT regulatory act standards.

It helps users to think beyond native Active Directory scripts and tools, which can either be costly or not comprehensive, and helps provide answers to the most important questions related to Active Directory Changes by providing full data for to any Active Directory changes - what action was taken, by who, when it occurred, and where it was accessed from.

ManageEngine also offers onboarding for ADAudit Plus, which is a holistic solution implementation service by experts for unique business requirements.

Benefits of using ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

- Ensure all changes conform to regulations and organizational policies with information on what changes were made, when, by who, and from where.

- Supervise crucial activities, using prepackaged reports on activities including user logon actions and GPO/OU/computer/groups/domain policy changes.

- Use filters and rules to create event fetchers and engage them to collect event data.

- Extract compliance data demanded by regulatory acts including HIPAA, PCI, SOX, GLBA, and FISMA.

- Archive audit data for the required periods specified in IT regulatory acts, with cataloging to make the regeneration of reports easy.

Starting from

595

Per year

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from ManageEngine ADAudit Plus users:

Real-Time Monitoring

4.6

(11)

Activity Tracking

4.5

(8)

Server Monitoring

4.6

(8)

Compliance Management

4.2

(6)

Access Controls/Permissions

4.6

(7)

Data Import/Export

4.5

(4)

All ManageEngine ADAudit Plus features

Features rating:

4.4

(55)

Incident Management

4.0

(1)

Financial Data Protection

5.0

(1)

Issue Auditing

3.0

(1)

Event Logs

4.0

(3)

Issue Management

3.0

(1)

Search/Filter

4.0

(2)

Employee Activity Monitoring

5.0

(1)

Risk Assessment

4.5

(2)

Security Auditing

4.7

(3)

IT Reporting

4.5

(4)

Monitoring

5.0

(1)

Customizable Reports

5.0

(1)

Configuration Management

4.0

(1)

Compliance Tracking

4.5

(2)

Reporting/Analytics

4.0

(1)

Reporting & Statistics

4.0

(2)

Patch Management

4.8

(4)

Audit Management

4.7

(3)

Alerts/Notifications

4.0

(3)

Real-Time Notifications

4.0

(1)

Activity Dashboard

4.3

(4)

Risk Analysis

(0)

Remote Monitoring & Management

(0)

Remote Access/Control

(0)

Real-Time Updates

(0)

Risk Management

(0)

Access Management

(0)

Role-Based Permissions

(0)

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

(0)

Scheduled/Automated Reports

4.0

(1)

Secure Login

(0)

Security Tools

(0)

Sensitive Data Identification

(0)

Summary Reports

(0)

Task Management

(0)

Third-Party Integrations

(0)

Threat Intelligence

(0)

Threat Response

(0)

Time Tracking

(0)

Timesheet Management

(0)

User Activity Monitoring

5.0

(1)

User Provisioning

(0)

Alerts/Escalation

(0)

Archiving & Retention

(0)

Attendance Tracking

(0)

Audit Trail

(0)

Automatic Time Capture

(0)

Behavioral Analytics

(0)

Billable & Non-Billable Hours

(0)

Dashboard

(0)

Data Discovery

(0)

Data Security

(0)

Data Visualization

(0)

Deletion Management

(0)

Employee Database

(0)

Employee Management

(0)

File Integrity Monitoring

(0)

HIPAA Compliant

(0)

ISO Compliance

(0)

IT Asset Management

(0)

IT Asset Tracking

(0)

Network Provisioning

(0)

Network Security

5.0

(1)

Online Time Tracking

(0)

PCI Assessment

(0)

Policy Management

(0)

Privileged Account Management

(0)

Productivity Analysis

(0)

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus alternatives

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

4.3

(55)

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Starting from

595

Per year

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.3

Features

4.4

Value for Money

4.2

Customer Support

4.3

ManageEngine PAM360

4.5

(2)

visit website

Starting from

7995

Per year

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.0

Features

4.5

Value for Money

5.0

Customer Support

4.0

Duo Security

4.7

(534)

visit website

Starting from

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.6

Features

4.5

Value for Money

4.6

Customer Support

4.5

NordLayer

4.7

(29)

visit website

Starting from

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.7

Features

4.4

Value for Money

4.4

Customer Support

4.2

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus pricing

Value for money rating:

4.2

Starting from

595

Per year

Flat Rate

Pricing details

Subscription

Free trial

Free plan

Pricing range

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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus integrations (6)

Integrations rated by users

We looked through 55 user reviews, to identify which products are mentioned as ManageEngine ADAudit Plus integrations, and what is the users perception.

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

ManageEngine ADManager Plus

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Other top integrations

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus support options

Typical customers

Freelancers

Small businesses

Mid size businesses

Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web

Android

iPhone/iPad

Support options

Knowledge Base

Chat

FAQs/Forum

Phone Support

Email/Help Desk

Training options

Live Online

Videos

Webinars

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus reviews

Overall rating

4.3

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown

Value for money
Ease of use
Features
Customer support
Likelihood to recommend8.26/10

Rating distribution

Pros

“The simplicity of this product is fantastic. Its on of the easiest and most simple piece of software to use with the most effective results.”

kyle J.

Security Engineer

“Overall ManageEngine Audit Plus gives you a great AD Admin and Audit experience. I would love to recommend it.”

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“Great experience, I will definitely recommend this product.”

kyle J.

Security Engineer

Cons

“It fails more often than not and the upgrade instructions listed on ManageEngine's website has inaccurate data (lists the wrong batch files to use, etc).”

Verified reviewer

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“Some of the upgrades are a bit of a pain due to services, and it's hard to install multiple products on the same server due to port usage and service installations.”

Verified reviewer

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“The upgrade process is the worst thing I've ever seen in a software product.”

Verified reviewer

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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does ManageEngine ADAudit Plus offer?

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $595.00/year
Pricing model: Free, Subscription

Q. Who are the typical users of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

Q. What languages does ManageEngine ADAudit Plus support?

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus supports the following languages:
English, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Greek

Q. Does ManageEngine ADAudit Plus offer an API?

No, ManageEngine ADAudit Plus does not have an API available.

Q. What other apps does ManageEngine ADAudit Plus integrate with?

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus integrates with the following applications:
ArcSight, Splunk Enterprise, ServiceNow

Q. What level of support does ManageEngine ADAudit Plus offer?

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, Chat, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, Email/Help Desk