Enhance security with Active Directory event auditing and PRTG
- Monitor and take control of Active Directory audit events
- Be notified of changes to group memberships or logged-in users
- Watch for changes to service accounts and Windows security policies
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PRTG makes Active Directory auditing easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent Active Directory replication and security issues.
Why PRTG is the Active Directory auditing tool of your choice
Enhance network security
Make sure that no AD event goes unnoticed: Active Directory auditing can track and log access attempts to network resources regardless of whether the attempt is legitimate, accidental, or malicious. As soon as matching event IDs are written to the Security Event Log, Paessler PRTG detects them.
Be notified in real time
Set custom warning and/or error thresholds for the sensors monitoring your Active Directory events. As soon as these thresholds are breached, PRTG notifies you via SMS, email, push notification, and other methods. This way, you can rest assured that if PRTG doesn’t sound the alarm, everything’s running as expected.
Analyze historical data
Keep track of your Active Directory events with PRTG’s wealth of historical monitoring data. Instead of going through tons of AD log data, you can zoom in on the events that really matter. With PRTG, you can also easily generate custom reports for in-depth data analysis or get a more high-level view for the management team.
What Active Directory auditing looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously monitoring and auditing Active Directory events. Show AD replication errors and changes to AD groups that can indicate a security issue in real time and visualize data in graphic maps & dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the visibility you need to troubleshoot your entire Active Directory domain.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Active Directory Replication Errors sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard showing a domain overview
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3 use cases of PRTG Active Directory auditing
Prevent Active Directory replication errors
The replication of directory data between various domain controllers can be prone to error. In turn, the resulting errors can cause problems with authentication and with access rights to resources.
The preconfigured Active Directory Replication Errors v2 sensor monitors different parameters during the replication of directories and the synchronization of the various domain controllers, including the number of consecutive synchronization failures, pending replication operations, and the time of the last synchronization attempt.
Identify logged-out & deactivated users
Maintaining an overview of logged-out or deactivated users is nearly impossible with standard AD tools. With PRTG, you get a ready-to-use script for the EXE/Script Advanced sensor, which searches the Active Directory for all logged-out and deactivated users, and then lists them in PRTG.
To use this script, PRTG requires the Active Directory PS module. With a Search-AD account, you can run the script with a number of different queries.
Monitor Active Directory group membership
Running a ready-to-use script for the EXE/Script Advanced sensor in PRTG, you can enumerate how many people are in a group and show an error status when the number of members exceeds the intended amount. This way, you’ll always be notified if someone joins an AD group like Domain Admins.
For AD security audits, you can set up the preconfigured Event Log (Windows API) sensor watching the Windows Security Event Log for changes to the Domain Admin Security Group.
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PRTG makes Active Directory auditing easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent Active Directory replication and security issues.
Auditing Active Directory: FAQ
What is the Active Directory?
Active Directory (AD) is a directory service created by Microsoft for use in a Windows Server environment. It provides authentication and authorization functions as well as a framework for other related services. The directory itself is an LDAP database that contains networked objects.
What is Active Directory auditing?
Active Directory auditing is the process of tracking and recording events that occur within an Active Directory environment. This includes actions such as logins, changes to user accounts, access to files or resources, and administrative activities. Auditing helps organizations maintain security, compliance, and accountability by providing a detailed record of who did what, when, and from where within the network.
Why do I need an Active Directory auditing tool?
One of the many functions Active Directory serves is that of a gate keeper – controlling which users can use resources on the network, and their level of interaction with those resources. File shares, applications, internet access, printers: all depend on Active Directory to allow or deny access. This makes it vitally important for system administrators to keep track of how AD is protecting those resources.
Microsoft has included excellent audit facilities within AD. Log on/log off, object access, policy changes, account management, and many other activities all leave detailed records in the Windows Security Event Log. Unfortunately, even for only a small network, AD auditing can create huge numbers of log events, making it very difficult to keep track of the really important ones. Active Directory auditing tools like PRTG help you keep track of these events and alert you if something is not working as it should.
Can PRTG monitor and audit only Active Directory?
No. PRTG is proprietary network monitoring software that lets you keep an eye on your entire IT infrastructure, including:
- SSL monitoring: PRTG determines the extent to which your connections are protected. You can therefore learn if your connections are strong, weak, or not protected at all.
- Ping monitoring: PRTG uses ping to check the availability of all your network devices. If the ping fails, you will be notified immediately.
- QoS monitoring: Is your line choppy? Do your video calls keep getting dropped? If so, then you have a problem with your quality of service. PRTG lets you set up easy and effective QoS monitoring and monitor values such as latency and jitter.
- Windows performance counter monitoring: Locate network bottlenecks, improve the performance of your system and applications, and get information on applications running on an IIS server using Windows performance counters.
- Web server monitoring: PRTG can monitor the availability of your web servers, including CPU, memory, web server performance, load times, and more.
- And much more
What is a sensor in PRTG?
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.
On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
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