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."It assists in managing the active directory and modifying the reintegrated GPOs."
"The monitoring and reporting are extensive and we get all the information we need while they continue to enhance the capabilities of the product."
"The most valuable feature is the control of the file server."
"The most valuable feature of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is its reports."
"The documentation for this solution is good."
"We use the product to track events and monitor logs of servers and workstations. I am impressed with the tool's tracking ability. It is intuitive and easy to use."
"The Account Lockout Analyzer and the Inactive Users reports are particularly valuable."
"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."
"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."
"Manage Groups: The capability to group appropriate devices gives better visibility of sites, categories, or critical regions. The same can be used to represent a dashboard for higher management."
"Solarwinds has an open database that allows you to do serious integrations. It doesn't matter which service desk you have, you can implement and integrate it with SolarWinds."
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"SolarWinds SAM has provided us with dynamic thresholds based on historical trends and requirements. The threshold gets configured automatically, so it's no longer necessary to configure it manually every time."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."
"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."
"Sometimes the developers in technical support take time."
"It assists in managing the active directory and modifying the reintegrated GPOs."
"The solution's managing file server activity could be improved."
"There are so many reports that it sometimes makes it difficult to navigate to what you need."
"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."
"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 quite complex and required some research beforehand."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve by having a cloud version. They have an observability platform but it still needs to be maintained by us."
"The major concern in the product revolves around application performance monitoring since end-to-end application monitoring is not possible with the tool."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
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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 ManageEngine ADManager Plus, Quest Change Auditor for Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Netwrix Auditor and Tenable Identity Exposure, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and ServiceNow Discovery. See our ManageEngine ADAudit Plus vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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