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AppViewX AUTOMATION+ vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

AppViewX AUTOMATION+
Ranking in Network Automation
21st
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat Ansible Automation ...
Ranking in Network Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (3rd), Configuration Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Network Automation category, the mindshare of AppViewX AUTOMATION+ is 0.1%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is 20.5%, down from 22.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Automation
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1292271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Good automation, statistics gathering, and reporting, with helpful technical support
The initial setup is simple. It took a few weeks to set up and test, before going live. There is some maintenance required. We have to allocate the storage often. We have a team within App Ux, the vendor, who supports us, and the engineering team within the F5M security team manages that.
Surya Chapagain - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to manage and simple to learn
We use Red Hat a lot. I open tickets for the Red Hat cases, however, with Ansible, I haven't opened any cases. My manager worked with them a bit. If we have a problem with some file and we need to get Red Hat to analyze the issue and the file is 100GBs, we'll have an issue since we need to provide a log file for them to analyze. If it is around 12GB or 13GB, we can easily upload it to the Red Hat portal. With more than 100GBs, it will fail. I heard it should cover up to 250GB for an upload, however, I find it fails. Therefore, Red Hat needs to provide a way to handle this.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The features that I have found to be the most valuable are the collecting of statistics, reporting, and implementing changes to particular environments on a scheduled basis with no manual intervention."
"It is agentless. I don't have to think about which client system my unit has understanding in or not, because I can execute from my system. It will go and configure it, and any module that it is looking for will be shipped out."
"On the network side, I already have a lot of our firewall related processes automated. If it's not automated all the way from the ticket system, our network team members, our tier-one guys in India, can just go into the Tower web interface and fill in a couple of survey questions."
"It is very easy to use, and there is less room for error."
"It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well."
"Since it is in YAML, if I have to explain it to somebody else, they can easily understand it."
"The development tools are decent and being able to consistently manage those servers is really the key, which is why we went with Ansible in the first place."
"The ease of being able to use the modules and collections to define what our business processes are is valuable. We are able to give non-technical people the ability to look at a process and say, "We need a step here. Someone do something and put it right here.""
"Ansible Tower offers use a UI where we can see all the pushes that have gone into the server."
 

Cons

"Anything to do with storage needs improvement."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is not the best at server provisioning. Terraform is better."
"There could be more stuff in the workflows. I hope that if I have ten templates with different services on it, workflow could auto-populate all the template-based services."
"The product could do a better job at building infrastructure."
"There have been some differences between the operating systems that we have noticed. It could be down to cryptographic policies, but we have noticed some speed issues. They should work on the speed of deployment on different operating systems."
"I have seen indications that the documentation needs improvement. They are providing a "How to Improve Your Documentation" presentation at this conference."
"The scalability of the solution has some shortcomings."
"When you set up Playbooks, I may have one version of the Playbook, but another member of the team may have a different vision, and we will not know which version is correct. We want to have one central repository for managing the different versions of Playbooks, so we can have better collaboration among team members. This is our use case for using Git version control."
"On the Dashboard, when you view a template run, it shows all the output. There is a search filter, but it would be nice to able to select one server in that run and then see all that output from just that one server, instead of having to do the search on that one server and find the results."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is reasonable. It's not cheap, but it's not expensive, it's in the middle."
"The cost is high, but it still works well."
"Ansible Tower is pretty expensive."
"Like many Red Hat products, they have a no-cost version of the web application (AWX, formerly Ansible Tower), but you are on your own to install and it is a little more complicated than just installing Ansible."
"The pricing is okay."
"Red Hat's open source approach was a factor when choosing Ansible, since the solution is free as of right now."
"We're charged between $8 to $13 a month per license."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an expensive solution. There may be additional fees to use advanced features."
"Ansible Tower is free. Until they lower the cost, we are holding off on purchasing the product."
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Educational Organization
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Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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Ansible
 

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