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Red Hat Lightspeed pros and cons

Vendor: Red Hat
4.4 out of 5

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PROS

Red Hat Lightspeed is praised for its simplicity and ease of use, with robust support and minimal outages.
It excels in enterprise governance, code stability, support, and integration capabilities.
Lifecycle management features help maintain compliance and keep components updated.
It provides comprehensive tracing and monitoring tools like syslog and SAR.
Red Hat Insights offers dynamic and proactive issue identification, enhancing visibility and reliability.

CONS

Red Hat Lightspeed cockpit server is considered non-functional and deemed useless by some users, with a preference for AWS images over those in GCP.
Concerns are raised about the need for more granularity in control and features within the GUI, as well as a centralized management solution similar to Windows' admin center.
The complexity of Red Hat Satellite infrastructure is highlighted, with suggestions for improvements in ease of use and subscriptions management.
Issues are noted with Red Hat Insights' limited automation, which primarily detects anomalies and triggers compliance issue actions but lacks compared to other tools.
There is a requirement for significant improvement in security compliance, data privacy management, and enterprise interlocking with Ansible Automation Platform.
 

Red Hat Lightspeed Pros review quotes

VishalSingh15 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Business at Variyas Labs Pvt Ltd
Oct 23, 2025
Red Hat support is very good; their response regarding SLAs has improved significantly in India, and I have no complaints about the support I continue to receive.
Daniele Palumbo - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise System Architect at Value Transformation Services
Jul 17, 2025
The most valuable feature of Red Hat Insights that I have found is the proactive information on issues that you don't see but are possibly going to happen in the environment.
Shabab Ali - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 23, 2023
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has made significant improvements in terms of storage. You can mount an 18 terabyte file system. It also supports NFS shares and the SIP share for the photos. There have been many features added since RHEL 6. It's more user-friendly and graphical.
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reviewer2298876 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Oct 23, 2023
The product is optimized for resource utilization.
Georgios Atsigkioz - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Atea AS
May 28, 2023
I have seen a return on investment, especially considering the time taken to resolve the problem where we bought some support from Red Hat.
RO
Server Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Oct 19, 2023
The tool is simple and easy to use. It has good support and doesn't have many outages due to the OS.
Ankit Gupta. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect Data Center & Cloud at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Nov 16, 2023
RHEL is the most reliable Linux flavor in terms of enterprise governance. I prefer it for its code stability, support, and integration. The lifecycle management features help us maintain compliance and keep the components updated.
BG
Network Administrator at Tommy Bahama
Jun 12, 2023
It identifies bugs and security vulnerabilities.
reviewer2304570 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Virtualization Owner at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Nov 2, 2023
The most valuable features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are the mobile applications and getting real-time notifications.
TR
Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Mar 17, 2022
We use this product's built-in tracing and monitoring tools such as syslog and SAR (system activity reporter) to provide us with greater insight and visibility into what's going on.
 

Red Hat Lightspeed Cons review quotes

VishalSingh15 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Business at Variyas Labs Pvt Ltd
Oct 23, 2025
Red Hat Insights has very limited automation; it only detects anomalies and triggers corrective actions for compliance issues, something which I found lacking when compared to other tools I've used.
Daniele Palumbo - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise System Architect at Value Transformation Services
Jul 17, 2025
What could be improved dramatically is the ability to have it used by an enterprise, which means to interlock with Ansible Automation Platform first.
Shabab Ali - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 23, 2023
AIX will be out of support in the next few years, so that is a problem because a lot of the clinical apps use AIX.
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reviewer2298876 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Oct 23, 2023
All resources should be available on the website.
Georgios Atsigkioz - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Atea AS
May 28, 2023
New products need better documentation. The websites also have a single sign-on to get you from one side to the other. As a partner, I had a problem finding out how I needed to connect and to which side of the solution.
RO
Server Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Oct 19, 2023
The cockpit server doesn't work and is useless. I don't like the images shown in GCP. I prefer the ones in AWS. It seems like the solution is in tune with what we deploy on the private cloud.
Ankit Gupta. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect Data Center & Cloud at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Nov 16, 2023
I also want the co-pilot to provide more granular control and more features in the GUI, so we can have one configuration from the GUI itself. It would be helpful to have a feature similar to the one in Windows where we can manage all the net flows from one console in a single pane of glass and install it on-premises like an admin center. It would be great if Red Hat had some kind of admin center to manage all the RHEL boxes without using an additional product like Satellite or something, we could use the co-pilot on all the systems to monitor the dashboard.
BG
Network Administrator at Tommy Bahama
Jun 12, 2023
Sometimes, the product has outages that affect the site's ability.
reviewer2304570 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Virtualization Owner at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Nov 2, 2023
A lot of improvement is required to get security compliance, especially with the privacy of the data, managing it, and storing it.
TR
Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Mar 17, 2022
I would like to see improvements made to the subscriptions and management of them.