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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 July 2025, in the Network Automation category, the mindshare of AppViewX AUTOMATION+ is 0.3%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is 17.8%, down from 23.1% 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.
Muralitharan KS - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficient server management and detailed reporting with flexible deployment capabilities
We are primarily using Ansible for automation purposes as it is a configuration management tool. It is utilized for various activities such as DNS activity, changes to web servers, virtual host settings, and other day-to-day tasks, all of which are templated in Ansible Ansible allows us to manage…

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 has made our infrastructure more testable. We are able to build our infrastructure in CI, then are more confident in what we are deploying will work, not breaking everything."
"The capacity to install products on the operating system is very valuable."
"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."
"I like the fact that Ansible is agentless."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"This solution allows us to stitch a lot of different parts of the workflow together."
"It is all modular-based. If there is not a module for it today, someone will write it."
"It allows control over thousands of servers, whether virtual or physical."
 

Cons

"Anything to do with storage needs improvement."
"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."
"The solution must be made easier to configure."
"There needs to be improvement in the orchestration."
"They should think of this product as an end-to-end solution and begin to develop it that way."
"More library support for microservices architecture and Kubernetes would be helpful."
"For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation."
"There should be consistency. I know that it is always changing, but when we are trying to get some users to do something in basic Ansible that they are not really interested in doing but their job requires them to do it, they start finding inconsistencies."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is reasonable. It's not cheap, but it's not expensive, it's in the middle."
"We went with product because we have a subscription for Red Hat."
"The solution is inexpensive compared to other products."
"Ansible Tower is free. Until they lower the cost, we are holding off on purchasing the product."
"I don't see the pricing or licensing features, but from what I understand, it is fairly reasonable."
"The pricing is pretty standard."
"I am using the community edition of the solution which is free."
"We're charged between $8 to $13 a month per license."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an affordable solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
18%
Educational Organization
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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AUTOMATION+
Ansible
 

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