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Red Hat AMQ pros and cons

Vendor: Red Hat
4.1 out of 5

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PROS

Red Hat AMQ is lightweight, easy to configure, manage, and provides robust performance.
The operator-based automation in Red Hat AMQ saves significant time in infrastructure deployment.
Red Hat AMQ offers high scalability and can handle large volumes of messages efficiently.
Reliability is a key feature, making it suitable for critical environments like busy airports.
Red Hat AMQ facilitates easy organization with microservices, enabling use across various services.

CONS

Improvement is needed to keep the support libraries updated.
Some aspects of monitoring could be enhanced.
Red Hat AMQ needs tighter integration with Service Registry and better integration capabilities overall.
Adoption of new versions of underlying technologies is sometimes too slow.
The complexity of multiple components leads to challenges compared to IBM MQ.
 

Red Hat AMQ Pros review quotes

MS
Dec 19, 2021
This product is well adopted on the OpenShift platform. For organizations like ours that use OpenShift for many of our products, this is a good feature.
RH
Sep 1, 2021
The most valuable feature for us is the operator-based automation that is provided by Streams for infrastructure as well as user and topic management. This saves a lot of time and effort on our part to provide infrastructure. For example, the deployment of infrastructure is reduced from approximately a week to a day.
SN
Aug 4, 2025
The benefits of using Red Hat AMQ include easy configuration and monitoring; on the portal, I can monitor how many packets or alerts have been generated or sent to the end user via Red Hat AMQ along with messages or emails, and it also shows utilization in the tool.
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it_user1087029 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 13, 2019
My impression is that it is average in terms of scalability.
Bhushan Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
May 24, 2024
Reliability is the main criterion for selecting this tool for one of the busiest airports in Mumbai.
MS
Nov 14, 2022
The most valuable feature is stability.
Sther Martins - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 9, 2024
I can organize the tool with microservices, which allows me to use it across different services. It is easy to learn.
reviewer1312446 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 17, 2021
The solution is very lightweight, easy to configure, simple to manage, and robust since it launched.
Gustavo Magni - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 9, 2023
AMQ is highly scalable and performs well. It can process a large volume of messages in one second. AMQ and OpenShift are a good combination.
reviewer2150220 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 6, 2023
Red Hat AMQ's best feature is its reliability.
 

Red Hat AMQ Cons review quotes

MS
Dec 19, 2021
This product needs better visualization capabilities in general.
RH
Sep 1, 2021
There are some aspects of the monitoring that could be improved on. There is a tool that is somewhat connected to Kafka called Service Registry. This is a product by Red Hat that I would like to see integrated more tightly.
it_user1087029 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 13, 2019
There are several areas in this solution that need improvement, including clustering multi-nodes and message ordering.
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Bhushan Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
May 24, 2024
The challenge is the multiple components it has. This brings a higher complexity compared to IBM MQ, which is a single complete unit.
MS
Nov 14, 2022
The turnaround of adopting new versions of underlying technologies sometimes is too slow.
Sther Martins - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 9, 2024
The product needs to improve its documentation and training.
reviewer1312446 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 17, 2021
There is improvement needed to keep the support libraries updated.
Gustavo Magni - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 9, 2023
AMQ could be better integrated with Jira and patch management tools.
reviewer2150220 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 6, 2023
Red Hat AMQ's cost could be improved, and it could have better integration.