Windows event auditing and reporting

[rs <rsmade () gmail com>]

Can anyone recommend a good tool that will alert and report on Windows 
Event logs, especially DC logs for events such as New user accounts, 
changed user accounts, deleted user accounts, locked user accounts, 
failed login attempts, expired passwords, dormant accounts, etc. We have 
looked at both S.E.L.M from GFI (Reporting wasn't great) and Active 
Administrator from ScriptLogic (Reporting was great but event criteria 
was not customizable and it offers a ton of nice features that we don't 
necessarily need but would be paying for.) . Just wanted to see if there 
was anything else out there that someone could recommend?

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