Netwrix Auditor: Free Community Edition

Effortlessly track all changes and access events in your critical systems. Our free audit software keeps you dialed in with daily summaries straight to your inbox.

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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.

Automate activity monitoring

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 our 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.

Trusted by professionals

Don’t just take our word for it

"Thanks for the use of your freebie. It worked as you said it should."

Ralph Hanahan

Denmark Technical College

"Incredible free auditing/monitoring tool. Indispensable tool for anyone who consider himself competent Windows sysadmin. Netwrix has many more free tools for serious IT people and I really appreciate that."

NedVis

Spiceworks Community

"Need to hunt down a GPO? This will do the job. Detects all changes in your Active Directory and Group Policy and provides the critical who, what, when and where details and before and after values."

Curtis3363

Spiceworks Community

"Incredible free auditing/monitoring tool. Indispensable tool for anyone who considers himself a competent Windows sysadmin."

Nedeljko Visnjic

Spiceworks Community

System requirements

What you’ll need to get started

Hardware
Processor:

  • 2 cores
    Memory:
  • 4 GB RAM
    Disk space:
  • 100 GB - System drive
  • 100 GB - Data drive (Long-Term Archive and SQL Server)
    Screen resolution:
  • Minimum 1280x1024
  • Recommended 1920x1080 or higher

Software
Operating system:

  • Windows Desktop OS: Windows 11, Windows 10, or Windows 8.1
  • Windows Server OS: Windows Server 2025, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2012 R2
    .NET Framework:
  • Any .NET Framework 4.8 and above
    Installer:
  • Windows Installer 3.1 and above

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