Open-source alternative  ·  Security & Compliance

Replace ManageEngine ADAudit Plus with Wazuh + Sysmon.

Wazuh for SIEM/XDR with Active Directory audit rules. Sysmon for detailed Windows event logging. Together they provide AD change tracking, logon auditing, GPO monitoring, and compliance reporting. Self-hosted.

You'd keep~R15 000 to ~R39 996/year

Current licence  ·  Security & Compliance

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

~R15 000 – ~R39 996/yr

10-user estimate

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Wazuh + Sysmon

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R39 996/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. ManageEngine ADAudit Plus's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard (100 objects)

R15 000/yr

R1 250/month

Flat rate

With Wazuh + Sysmon

Keep R15 000/yr

Professional (500 objects)

R39 996/yr

R3 333/month

Flat rate

With Wazuh + Sysmon

Keep R39 996/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus grows around 10% per year on average. Wazuh + Sysmon hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR18kR35kR53kR71kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R64kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.24M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

ManageEngine ADAudit PlusWazuh + Sysmon, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Other security & compliance migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Migrate ManageEngine ADAudit Plus.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.