ManageEngine ADAudit Plus – The Smarter Alternative to Netwrix Auditor

Find out why more businesses are turning to ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
for reliable Active Directory auditing, easy compliance audits, and actionable risk insights.

4 Years in a Row Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for SIEM

96% Customer Satisfaction Score

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Over 280000+ Organizations Secured

15+ Years in Securing Critical AD Infrastructure

190+ Countries Served

ADAudit Plus delivers stronger auditing at a lower price than Netwrix Auditor.

Netwrix Auditor is licensed per user, so costs rise as you add users—even without adding servers. In contrast, ADAudit Plus is licensed per server, helping you stay within budget even as user numbers grow.
Both tools offer comparable Entra ID and file server auditing but ADAudit Plus stands out with advanced features like GPO misconfiguration and AD attack detection, cloud risk analysis, user work hours tracking, and auditing for AD FS, AD CS, and PowerShell.

How ADAudit Plus Stacks Up Against Netwrix Auditor

Feature

Description

ADAudit Plus

Netwrix Auditor

1. Logon auditing

Provides information on all Windows logon activity—from logon failures to logon history

2. Account lockout analysis

Notifies of a lockout and helps analyze the source of authentication failure

3. Object change audit

Provides information on changes to users, groups, OUs, GPOs (including Group Policy setting changes), and other AD objects

4. GPO misconfiguration detection

Compare GPO configurations against baseline standards to identify misconfigurations

5. Privileged user monitoring

Provides information on actions carried out by administrators and other privileged users

6. AD attack detection

Detect 25+ AD attacks including attacks like Kerberoasting, DCSync, pass-the-ticket, and more

7. LAPS auditing

Provides information on who is viewing or modifying local admin credentials

8. AD Certificate Services (AD CS) auditing

Provides information on certificate-related activities on your AD CS servers.

9. PowerShell auditing

Provides information on PowerShell processes, along with the commands executed by them

10. File auditing

Provides information on file accesses, permission changes, and more

11. File integrity monitoring

Provides information on changes to operating systems (OSs), software programs, and other critical local files residing on computers

12. Supported environments

Windows, NetApp, EMC, Synology, Amazon FSx, QNAP, Azure, Nutanix, and Dell file systems

+Hitachi, Huawei, and CTERA

-Hitachi, Huawei, and CTERA

13. Entra ID auditing

Provides information on successful and failed user logons; changes to users, groups, roles, applications; and more

14. Cloud risky configuration detection

Identify risky Azure, AWS, or GCP configurations, like allowing public access to a virtual machine

15. User behavior analytics

Allows detection of abnormal user behavior based on users' previous activity patterns

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3 compelling reasons to choose ADAudit Plus

Widely recognized

ADAudit Plus has been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Security Incident & Event Management (SIEM) for four consecutive years.

Competitive pricing

ADAudit Plus is licensed per-server, unlike other IT auditors which are licensed per-user. With per-server licensing, even with a growing number of users each year, you can continue to ingest log data without additional costs.

Easy deployment

Go from downloading ADAudit Plus to receiving predefined reports and alerts in under 30 minutes, without any professional help.

Why businesses choose ADAudit Plus
"ADAudit Plus, in a nutshell, has allowed me to sleep better. Without it, I can't imagine how many hours we would've spent trying to do forensics on certain incidents."

Vinit Khandelwal
Senior Director of Client Technology Architecture
Cushman & Wakefield
Why businesses choose ADAudit Plus
"From a security, ISO 27001, and GDPR perspective, we use ADAudit Plus to help us keep an eye on [the] number of intruder lockouts and other various metrics in terms of breach detection."

James McMillan
Chief Technology Officer
Redinet

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Disclaimer

This comparison is based on the information available online as of June, 2025, and while much care has been taken to prepare this comparison, we give no warranties whatsoever, including but not limited to the accuracy of any information contained herein.
Netwrix Auditor's pricing information is not publicly available, the details in this page have been obtained from third-party sources.