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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
69
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (3rd), Configuration Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 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 20.0%, down from 22.8% 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 enabled me to take the old build manifest and automated everything. So when it came time to spin everything up, it was quick and simple. I could spin it up and test it out. And then, when it came time to roll production, it was a done deal. When we expanded to multiple data centers, it was same thing: Change a few IP addresses, change some names, and off we went."
"We can manage all the configuration consistency between all our servers."
"Ansible Galaxy is helpful for roles and Git Submodules: No dependency in managing playbooks. Also, fact caching in redis for host/role grp information speeds up execution. Finally, variable management is easy."
"Automation is valuable. It saves us time in performing tedious tasks or repetitive tasks."
"I like the fact that Ansible is agentless."
"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."
"I like the agentless feature. This means we don't install any agent in worker nodes."
 

Cons

"Anything to do with storage needs improvement."
"At this time, I do not have anything to improve. What we struggle with is the knowledge base, but that is more about us having to go and find it and learn the platform on our own rather than an actual Ansible issue."
"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."
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
"In modern infrastructure, there are more than just servers. The initial server-centric approach in Ansible is a bit strange."
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"The web GUI can be a little bit better. There should be a couple of more features."
"We are not using the Dashboard a lot because we have higher expectations from it. The default Dashboard from Tower doesn't give that much information. We really want to get down into more than if the job succeeded or what was the percentage of success. We want to get down to task-level success. If, in a job, there are ten tasks, we want to see this task was a success, and this was not, and how many were not. That's the kind of granularity we are looking for, that Tower does not give right now."
"More library support for microservices architecture and Kubernetes would be helpful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is reasonable. It's not cheap, but it's not expensive, it's in the middle."
"Ansible Tower is pretty expensive."
"We're charged between $8 to $13 a month per license."
"Everything is generally fair. No one ever likes to pay a lot of money, but we are getting the value. We also get support with it. It has been fair and worthwhile."
"You don't need to buy agents on servers or deploy expense management when using the solution, which affected our decision to go with it."
"The solution is inexpensive compared to other products."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an affordable solution."
"We went with product because we have a subscription for Red Hat."
"Users have to pay a per-node cost of around $ 100 per node."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
32%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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