Best IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools for Active Directory

Paessler PRTG is an all-inclusive monitoring solution with an intuitive, user-friendly interface powered by a cutting-edge monitoring engine. It optimizes connections and workloads, reduces operational costs, and prevents outages. It also saves time and controls service level agreements (SLAs). This solution includes specialized monitoring features such as flexible alerting, cluster failover, distributed monitoring, maps, dashboards, and in-depth reporting.

NetCrunch runs on Windows Server (virtual or physical) and allows for efficient, agentless network monitoring, network visibility and advanced alert and remediation action management system. It can monitor practically any device, system or data source in your network, as non standard data can be pushed to NetCrunch or read from log, file or database to be included in NetCrunch network atlas. Developed by AdRem Software, NetCrunch includes 540+ predefined monitoring packs and ready to use sensors to track and troubleshoot network services uptime, performance of switches, routers, storage devices and applications, cloud services, bandwidth, and traffic flow. AdRem NetCrunch supports monitoring of all major OS types, such as Linux, Windows, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Mac OS X, and BSD. It allows creating all types of live network maps, performance charts, flexible dashboards and graphical views that are updated automatically, displaying live status of any monitored device, connection link, metric or alert. Data collected by NetCrunch can be shared securely via web console or any of over 30 ready to use integrations with most popular help desk systems (Jira, Freshdesk) or group collaboration (Slack, MS Teams, PagerDuty, Trello).

Netwrix Auditor, a visibility platform, allows you to control changes, configurations, and access in hybrid IT environments. It also eliminates the stress associated with your next compliance audit. All changes in your cloud and on-prem systems can be monitored, including AD, Windows Servers, file storage, Exchange, VMware, and other databases. Reduce the complexity of your inventory and reporting. You can easily verify that your access and identity configurations match the known good state by reviewing them regularly.

Splunk is a secure, reliable, and scalable service that turns data into answers. Our Splunk experts will manage your IT backend so you can concentrate on your data. Splunk's cloud-based data analytics platform is fully managed and provisioned by Splunk. In as little as two days, you can go live. Software upgrades can be managed to ensure that you have the most recent functionality. With fewer requirements, you can tap into the data's value in days. Splunk Cloud is compliant with FedRAMP security standards and assists U.S. federal agencies, their partners, and them in making confident decisions and taking decisive actions at rapid speed. Splunk's mobile apps and augmented reality, as well as natural language capabilities, can help you increase productivity and contextual insight. Splunk solutions can be extended to any location by simply typing a phrase or tapping a finger. Splunk Cloud is designed to scale, from infrastructure management to data compliance.

Datadog is the cloud-age monitoring, security, and analytics platform for developers, IT operation teams, security engineers, and business users. Our SaaS platform integrates monitoring of infrastructure, application performance monitoring, and log management to provide unified and real-time monitoring of all our customers' technology stacks. Datadog is used by companies of all sizes and in many industries to enable digital transformation, cloud migration, collaboration among development, operations and security teams, accelerate time-to-market for applications, reduce the time it takes to solve problems, secure applications and infrastructure and understand user behavior to track key business metrics.

With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is a truly all-in-one monitoring solution, covering all traditional silos for specific monitoring: servers, networks, applications, logs, synthetic/transactional, remote control, inventory, etc. Pandora FMS allows you to quickly find and solve problems. It scales them so that they can be derived either from on-premise, multi-cloud, or both. You now have the ability to use your entire IT stack and analytics to solve any problem, even those that are difficult to find. You can control and manage any technology and application with more than 500 plugins, including SAP, Oracle, Lotus or Citrix, Jboss, VMware, AWS and SQL Server.

Optimize performance across your virtual infrastructure and databases. Foglight®, a performance monitoring tool that identifies and fixes performance issues in your cloud, virtual, and physical environments, allows you to go beyond basic performance monitoring. Foglight products can be integrated with your existing tools so that you can easily monitor and analyze data from any source and view it through one interface. Our fully customizable dashboards allow you to focus on the most important things in your organization and view data in ways that make sense for your business. This will give you the database visibility you require while increasing productivity. Foglight allows you to detect, monitor, manage, and resolve performance issues before they affect your business.

PowerPlug Pro is a PC Power Management System and a (patented), PC Wake Up Solution for medium-sized to large organizations. The product allows IT departments to create multiple power policies for different groups of PCs. These policies specify the conditions under which PCs will enter power-saving mode, without interfering with End-Users' work. Our patent-pending Wake Up solution allows IT technicians to perform all maintenance tasks outside of normal business hours. This increases the success rate for software distributions and patch distributions. End Users can also connect securely to their work PC via a special Wake Up Portal. This allows organizations to allow employees to work from home and save money and energy.

InsightFinder Unified Intelligence Engine platform (UIE) provides human-centered AI solutions to identify root causes of incidents and prevent them from happening. InsightFinder uses patented self-tuning, unsupervised machine learning to continuously learn from logs, traces and triage threads of DevOps Engineers and SREs to identify root causes and predict future incidents. Companies of all sizes have adopted the platform and found that they can predict business-impacting incidents hours ahead of time with clearly identified root causes. You can get a complete overview of your IT Ops environment, including trends and patterns as well as team activities. You can also view calculations that show overall downtime savings, cost-of-labor savings, and the number of incidents solved.

Centreon is a global provider for business-aware IT monitoring to ensure high performance and continuous operations. The company's AIOps-ready platform, which is holistic and ready for use in today's complex hybrid cloud infrastructures, is designed to meet the needs of these distributed clouds. Centreon monitors all aspects of the IT Infrastructure, from Cloud-to Edge for a clear and comprehensive view. Centreon eliminates blind spots by monitoring all equipment, middleware, and applications that are part modern IT workflows. This includes legacy assets on-premise, private and public clouds, and all the way to edge of the network where smart devices and customers come together to create business value. Centreon is always up-to-date and can support even the most dynamic environments. It has auto-discovery capabilities that allow it to keep track of Software Defined Network (SDN), AWS or Azure cloud assets and Wi-Fi access points, as well as any other component of today’s agile IT infrastructure.

Predicting and avoiding downtime is the first step to increasing service and support efficiency, and business satisfaction. EV Observe provides an end-toend service experience with its monitoring platform that includes network, IoT and IT infrastructure monitoring, cloud monitoring, and application monitoring. We make it simple for organizations to adopt a proactive and predicative approach to service delivery, support, and observability. This includes collaborative self-help and self-healing as well as comprehensive performance and availability insight. This allows teams to focus on innovation and value delivery that drives business outcomes. The result is higher employee engagement, improved customer experience, increased productivity and improved resilience. Cloud-based SaaS monitoring for multi-clients and multi-sites. Software production tool that integrates the entire spectrum of software development processes and incorporates DevOps.

Enterprise observability for all of your teams at scale Traditional tools only detect simple threshold-based anomalies. This makes it difficult to distinguish between real issues and false alarms. VMware Tanzu Observability from Wavefront allows you to create smart alerts that dynamically filter out noise and capture true anomalies. It is difficult to troubleshoot distributed cloud applications because of many moving parts, dependencies on other applications, and frequent code changes. Wavefront tracks all metrics from your cloud applications, infrastructure, and clouds. It can be difficult to find the right needle when dealing with thousands of metrics from containerized microservices and distributed cloud applications. AI Genie™, which automatically identifies "unknown unknowns", allows you to quickly find the root cause of an incident - isolate applications, infrastructure, and cloud.