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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
27th
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
72
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (3rd), Configuration Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Network Automation category, the mindshare of AppViewX AUTOMATION+ is 1.3%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is 14.3%, down from 18.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform14.3%
AppViewX AUTOMATION+1.3%
Other84.4%
Network Automation
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1292271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at a sports company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
Manas Kashyap - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Dev Ops Engineer at 11 East Capital
Automation has transformed server patching and has reduced months of work to minutes
The best features that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers is that it does not require any additional resources inside the servers. Python is the only requirement, and since Python is already present inside the servers, we can run it from our location and it automatically deploys things and does the work for us. The minimal requirements and easy deployment have definitely impacted my daily work and my team's efficiency. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is one of the best features that we depend on. We have evaluated other options, but Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform was the best choice because it has saved us a tremendous amount of time. We do not need to manually intervene in the servers or install third-party software to maintain these things. It is very easy to write playbooks for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Ansible Galaxy contains many playbooks that are readily available and ready to be used. It is highly configurable with Jinja templating, making it easy to maintain. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has positively impacted my organization. Previously, we needed to go into the servers and maintain them manually, which used to take a lot of time. For 200 to 300 servers, the maintenance took about one to two months. New patches would arrive and we would have to repeat the process. Now, it is a one-night work or a 10 to 15 minutes task. We write a playbook, maintain an inventory, and roll out the updates and it starts working for us. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform uses conditional clauses and has rollback options, functioning like a standard coding language that is simple to use. There is definitely a reduction in errors with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform because we have playbooks written with all the necessary clauses and rollback options. Manual work automatically creates more errors, whereas in automation, we have written sets that we do not forget every time we run it. We have protected written sets that we execute consistently.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"If you are a heavy user of eCommerce services, use cloud-based solutions, and you would like a central point with a single pane of glass to get any kind of statistics or visibility around your applications, this solution is a good tool."
"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."
"Its checking and validating ensures our packages are properly patched."
"The automation capabilities streamline deployment processes, providing reliability and reducing manual intervention and errors."
"It saves time; it cut our configuration time; it is very easy to use, and there is less room for error."
"The reason I like Ansible is, first, the coding of it is very straightforward, it's very human-readable. I'm also on a contract, and I can clearly iterate and bring people up to speed very quickly on writing a Playbook compared with writing up a Puppet manifest or a Salt script."
"It is quick to production. It has an API in the back which allows for integrations."
"It does not require staff for deployment and maintenance. It just works."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well."
 

Cons

"Anything to do with storage needs improvement."
"Anything to do with storage needs improvement. Storage is always very expensive; it fills up a lot and it's not very good at cloud-based solutions."
"I would like to see improvements in the dashboards. More detailed dashboards would be beneficial because there is a lack of dashboards on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform."
"What we need is model-driven, declarative software infrastructure management. However, things tend to break with new versions, requiring a lot of work to fix…The focus should be on improving the support for Ansible in the area of AI coding."
"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."
"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."
"It needs better documentation."
"In Community, there's a lot of effort towards testing, standardizing, and testing for module development to role development, which is why Molecule is now becoming real. Same thing with Zuul, which we are starting to implement. Zulu tests out modules from third-party sources, like ourselves, and verifies that the modules work before they are committed to the code. Currently, Ansible can't do this with all the modules out there."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is not the best at server provisioning. Terraform is better."
"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."
"We use the open-source version of the solution."
"The cost is high, but it still works well."
"We're charged between $8 to $13 a month per license."
"The solution is inexpensive compared to other products."
"The cost is determined by the number of endpoints."
"I don't see the pricing or licensing features, but from what I understand, it is fairly reasonable."
"We have to be mindful of how we use Ansible because of the licensing model. I am not saying that it is unfair or we do not find value in it. Because we are trying to automate so many different things, we have to be mindful of what we are doing and how we are doing it because we are trying to stay in compliance with it."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business25
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise52
 

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Also Known As

AUTOMATION+
Ansible, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Subscription on AWS
 

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