ADAudit Plus: The right complement to your SIEM

Security teams today rely heavily on SIEM platforms to gain centralized visibility across their environments. These platforms excel at aggregating and correlating logs from diverse sources, including Active Directory. However, to take the visibility into AD even deeper and to detect granular threats that might afflict it, they need to integrate with a purpose-built AD auditing solution.

That's where ManageEngine ADAudit Plus comes in.

ADAudit Plus is a purpose-built Active Directory auditing solution that delivers detailed, real-time insights into user activity, group and GPO changes, privileged account usage, file access, and more—in a way that is difficult and time-consuming to replicate in most SIEM environments.

Why ADAudit Plus?

ADAudit Plus delivers crucial depth and precision, specifically into your Windows-based identity infrastructure.

• Real-time change auditing across domain controllers, member servers, and workstations.	• Fine-grained visibility into AD objects, permissions, and user behavior.
• Compliance-ready reporting aligned to mandates such as the GDPR, the PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, ISO 27001, and NIS2.	• Out-of-the-box dashboards and alerts with zero requirement for rule-writing or scripting.
• Hybrid environment support, including Entra ID/Azure AD, alongside on-premises AD.

Designed to plug into your existing security stack

ADAudit Plus integrates seamlessly with popular SIEM platforms such as Splunk, IBM QRadar, and ArcSight via Syslog.

Instead of sending raw, noisy, and cryptic Windows security logs to your SIEM, which then require correlation logic and normalization, ADAudit Plus serves as a preprocessing and enrichment layer. It delivers clean, meaningful, and structured AD events with clear user attribution, timestamps, and context. This helps improve:

Threat detection and investigation workflows.
Compliance tracking and audit readiness.
Mean time to detect and respond to identity-based threats.

The comprehensive workflow diagram showing log sources, processing engines, and output destinations

Where ADAudit Plus delivers strategic value

✅ Enterprise already using a SIEM platform: Enhances your SIEM with identity-aware audit trails and AD-specific insights, eliminating the need for complex correlation rule creation or custom log parsing.

✅ Compliance-driven organizations: Over 200 prebuilt audit reports and real-time alerting mapped to key compliance mandates, helping teams meet audit requirements without additional engineering overhead.

✅ Hybrid or cloud-transitioning environments: Provides unified visibility across on-premises AD and Entra ID (Azure AD), file servers, and critical infrastructure, ensuring consistent oversight in hybrid identity landscapes.

✅ Mid-sized enterprises with lean security teams: Delivers enterprise-grade functionality in an easy-to-deploy and cost-effective package, ideal for teams that need depth without the complexity of full-scale SIEM deployment.

✅ Forensic investigation and incident response: Supports detailed user activity trails, change logs, and privilege modifications, which is essential for analyzing lateral movement, privilege escalation, or insider threats.

ADAudit Plus provides the flexibility to be deployed as:

A stand-alone product for organizations focused specifically on AD auditing and compliance.
A module within Log360, our unified SIEM platform, for customers looking for broader infrastructure visibility.
A component within AD360, for those invested in identity governance, provisioning, and self-service automation.

This modularity ensures that organizations can start small and scale as needed without being forced into suites or bundles that don't match their maturity level or budget. Whether you're an enterprise with a mature SOC or a mid-sized business working toward compliance, ADAudit Plus gives you precise, actionable identity-layer visibility that most SIEMs simply weren't designed to handle.

ADAudit Plus delivers clarity and accountability for AD activity, working seamlessly with your SIEM.