Netwrix Auditor Free Community Edition
Free audit software for Active Directory, file servers, and Windows
Effortlessly track all changes and access events in your critical systems. The free Community Edition keeps you dialed in with daily summaries straight to your inbox.
Get clear insights into user activity
Too often, IT teams are left guessing with no easy way to track what actually changed across environments. Without awareness, you’re left with security gaps, wasted time, and frustrated employees. Netwrix Auditor Free Community Edition gives you actionable audit data to help spot suspicious activity sooner, troubleshoot faster, and keep your critical systems locked down.
Effortless daily change tracking
Track all changes and access events in your critical systems and automatically get summaries straight to your mailbox every day.
Built on trusted Netwrix tech
Consolidate raw audit data into clear, actionable insights with tech backed by proven security expertise.
Always free, no expiration
Use the free auditing tool as long as you need it. Plus, get a free 20-day trial of Netwrix Auditor’s powerful features.
Upgrade to full visibility
When you need complete visibility and broader coverage, seamlessly upgrade to Netwrix Auditor without starting from scratch.
Capabilities
Free features, smarter workflows
Daily email summary sent to your inbox
Get a daily summary of changes and logons in your environment delivered straight to your inbox.
Clear reporting for simpler compliance
Track what was changed, when, and where it happened for faster troubleshooting and investigations.
Change, access, and configuration reporting
Get detailed reports on environment changes, access permissions, and configurations.
Broadest coverage across systems
Monitor and report on user activity across all of your on-premises or cloud-based IT systems.
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What's different
Free Community Edition vs. the full Netwrix Auditor
The Free Community Edition gives you a real look at Netwrix Auditor: recent changes, before-and-after values, and daily summaries. The full Netwrix Auditor keeps that same foundation and adds the reporting depth, risk visibility, and compliance mappings your team needs to run this day to day.
Free Community Edition
✓ Reporting on configuration changes, read attempts, and logons ✓ Daily activity summary sent to a single recipient ✓ Before-and-after values for every modification ✓ "What," "when," and "where" details for each reported event
Netwrix Auditor
✓ "Who" details for every reported event ✓ Ability to run, customize, and save reports ✓ Scheduled report delivery to any number of recipients ✓ State-in-time configuration reporting ✓ Risk assessment and behavior anomaly discovery ✓ Compliance reports mapped to PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, and more ✓ Dashboards, search, and threat alerts ✓ API integration and extended audit storage ✓ Role-based access, AD object restore, and full support
Download a free trialReady for deeper auditing?
The free edition tells you what changed. When you need the who, long-term reports and alerting, these editions of Netwrix Auditor go further.
