We performed a comparison between ManageEngine ADAudit Plus and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Active Directory Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."ADAudit Plus's best features are that it's very easy to use with a user-friendly interface, and it gives reports on group policy and object changes that we couldn't find in any other product."
"The most valuable feature is the control of the file server."
"It assists in managing the active directory and modifying the reintegrated GPOs."
"The documentation for this solution is good."
"I like the user behavior analytics (UBA). It's a machine learning feature that creates a standard profile for each user when you install it. It creates a baseline for every user, so it can detect when anyone deviates from that standard baseline profile. For example, if a user typically logs in at 9:30 am and logs out at 6 pm, ADAudit will flag it as an anomaly when that same logs in after normal hours and alert the admins."
"The monitoring and reporting are extensive and we get all the information we need while they continue to enhance the capabilities of the product."
"Real-time monitoring of AD changes and logons is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is its reports."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"Identifying the problem statement is easy."
"Management Console - Managing service to each server enrolled in the Solarwinds is much easier. Using a web base console, you can control your service much convenient way. There is no need to login remotely. It save a lot of time and effort."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"ADAudit could have a more sophisticated interface design. They are using a plain UI, which is decent. However, customers have said that it looks a little flat compared to other vendors. It's not fancy."
"The initial setup was difficult."
"It assists in managing the active directory and modifying the reintegrated GPOs."
"There are so many reports that it sometimes makes it difficult to navigate to what you need."
"ADAudit Plus can be very tricky, especially if we need to do some high-availability configuration or distributed environment installation."
"Its configuration can be better. There were 44 pages of documented notes of what I had to do to get the product to work during the installation process."
"Sometimes the developers in technical support take time."
"The solution should include more details on file creation and modification. It also needs to have a quick message for troubleshooting problems which needs to be detailed and generic."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
"SAM AppInsight for SQL: The ability to ignore fragmentation of specific indexes."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"Reporting is the only thing with which we currently have challenges. They have this in two ways. There is the report writer, which is the backend, and we also have web reports, which are on the console. So, they have removed the report writer for the backend reports, and we are making use of the web console, but most of the users are not finding it very interesting to use the frontend reports. I would like them to bring back the report writer. That's the key area within it to improve on the reporting. If they can bring back the report writer, then most users will actually be comfortable. I have some customers who are trying to export their report to an Excel format, but it is not possible because they said any report that has been done from the web console cannot be exported to Excel, but most of the customers need to export their reports to Excel. That's one area they need to work on."
"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is ranked 4th in Active Directory Management with 10 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 8th in Active Directory Management with 38 reviews. ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus writes "Helpful for real-time monitoring of AD and quick response to threats, but its configuration should be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is most compared with Quest Change Auditor for Active Directory, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, Microsoft Entra ID, Netwrix Auditor and CrowdStrike Identity Protection, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI. See our ManageEngine ADAudit Plus vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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