--- title: Rudder Reviews meta_title: 'Rudder Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Rudder works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 18 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Vulnerability Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/vulnerability-management --- # Rudder Reviews **Vendor:** Rudder **Category:** [Patch Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/patch-management) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About Rudder Rudder is a solution for automating your IT infrastructure to ensure security, reliability and compliance of your systems, whatever the OS. Gain instant visibility of IT compliance and benefit from continuous remediation to ensure an environment well configured and secured. Rudder keeps all your systems in the desired states, monitor all your configurations and security rules every five minutes and ensures compliance by performing automatic remediation. Rudder also includes vulnerability and patch management features. What makes Rudder different: - Its graphical interface makes Rudder easy to use and your use cases easy to implement. Collaboration and sharing are facilitated. - Rudder has been designed for critical environments and offers high scalability and customization to meet your organization's requirements. - With Rudder, you get central visibility of your systems. You can manage all your devices (physical and cloud servers, desktops, IoT...) and OS (Linux and Windows systems) in one place. - Rudder is based on robust technology and can manage several thousand devices from a central server. - Rudder provides continuous visibility of the compliance status of your systems. For this, we use a lightweight agent installed on each system that ensures data security, optimized execution and reliable service even in case of network failure. ## Rudder Reviews ### 1. Unlocking the Power of Modern Data Governance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Rudder?** Rudder provides a very intuitive user interface with comprehensive data governance features. It adds emphasis on collaboration and integration with existing tools along with scalable performance **What do you dislike about Rudder?** The lack of extensive reporting and analytics capabilities hinder its use for deeper insights along with limited customization options for user roles and permissions **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rudder has been instrumental in solving critical business challenges related to data governance from my perspective. It has helped my organization effectively manage unstructured data by providing intuitive tools to organize and catalog our data assets. This has dramatically enhanced our ability to discover and utilize information across the company. ### 2. Blanco y Prieto LLC **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diana Díaz B. | Ventas, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Rudder?** It reduces and organizes my time in IT infrastructure when I am managing all the processes related to the company. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** Greater scope is needed in the system to encompass more security and management in the companies that use it. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** High availability in the infrastructure provided by the system. ### 3. Hybrid and distributed IT & security infrastructure management made easy!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Rudder?** Improved data accuracy, streamlined data collection, and leveraging data for deep analytics & data science. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** Certification and training courses for teams does not happen throughout the year - resulting in delayed onboardings. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rudder provides an easy and sophisticated way to manage and automate IT hybrid infrastructure. ### 4. Designed for hybrid infra **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Rudder?** One platform for automatiion, patching orchestrating complex flows **What do you dislike about Rudder?** Not free, there are several open sources but again this is a complete suit **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orchestrating hybrid infrastructure ### 5. Amazing Technology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew F. | Director, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Rudder?** With Rudder we are able to maintain a global overview of critical infrastructure and reassure our customers that we are in control constantly. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** So far the only thing i "dislike" and it's a minor in comparison to the time we save, is the configuration editor would love a more visual editor with a flow like interface. Think node red as an example. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to ensure systems are up to date, installed with correct security agents, we are instantly aware of threats and compliance violations and above all thanks to the amazing rest API we were able to build a company portal that we can show compliance information to customers! ### 6. Best visibility and design flow **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Florian H. | Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** I can use Rudder to break the communication barriers I normally have to deal with in IT. Normally, there's "the technical stuff" and "the stuff management needs". Both are distractions from each other and fixing one doesn't solve the other at all. With Rudder I can easily show non-admins what's working, what we need to do, and they can digest that information to a complete understanding. Project managers, bosses and beginners can understand what's happening. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** I would like it to be easier to file away what I built, in a sanitized version. I hope for more interfaces to other tools (i.e. there's an ansible plugin, I would love to use that as an an exporter so I don't have to ever build ansible code again). Community size. It is also a bit "too much" for very small setups. **Recommendations to others considering Rudder:** Set it up, and slowly start doing what you always wanted to do (i.e. have a really great .bash_profile). Keep in mind, since this is agent-based it is almost impossible (never say never) to lock yourself out. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Built some very flexible infrastructures that adapt well no matter where deployed. Ensure things aren't just provisioned, but kept OK all the time. Allow people to easily change what they need in a place they understand. Gather year-long statistics on system maintenance needs, and as such, be able to tell when everything is tidy, or how far we have move from that point. I am dumping that data into Nagios (Check_MK to be specific, and also into ElasticSearch. My dream is to have this full circle - I'm also collecting other data, including IPFIX metrix into the same ElasticSearch instance, and am just waiting for DARPA to come up with some cool aggregation technique for all-different data :-) ### 7. Industrualization of our managed services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maxime L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** There are many reasons to choose Rudder for implementing an excellent quality of services. First of all, for creating and dynamically updating groups of machines based on their inventory. Thus, we can create a node group of a certain distribution, containing some packages in a certain ip range for example. On these dynamic groups, it is possible to create a directive composed of a series of generic methods (creation of a directory, modification of a line, rebooting of a service etc.). For example, about thirty of these small bricks (generic methods) have allowed us to transform our installation and maintenance procedures of our internal wiki into rules in Rudder. The intuitive interface allows us to quickly see the quality of our compliance with our rules across our entire IT. Changes to these rules always require a multi-person workflow process to be validated and deployed in production. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** At the ergonomics level, we sometimes get lost between certain notions of general methods, directives, techniques and rules. The concept of rule is powerful because different directives can be applied for certain groups and not for others. And another rule may also contain some of these directives associated with other groups. But in use for more practice we often make a rule for a directive. So it's a lot of clicks for a single directive in a single rule. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our managed services is now dedicated to creating value through the creation of configuration rules and security policy. This expertise can then be easily deployed throughout the entire IT. An update of our policy or an optimization of a service is then quickly implemented throughout our entire IT. Rudder also allows us to respond to 0day alerts to patch and/or modify system configurations until we have the editor patches available. Rudder also gives us the opportunity to show our clients the work done by the compliance reports of all the rules applied on their system. ### 8. Service Provider manage severals hundred of servers with Rudder **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ilan C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** Rudder has a large number of features to manage all configurations of an operating system or application. Its clear and intuitive web interface makes it easy to manage and organize all configurations items. The highest added value of the product is the concept of continuous compliance. Managed through dashboards and detailed reports, this one guarantees the application of our continuous configurations on all our resources. The Rest API is also very useful for connecting Rudder with third-party tools. The team behind this project is very awesome. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** By design, we can not control the execution order of tasks in a compliance and sometimes the goal can not be reach the first time. In this case you just have to execute compliance a second to reach 100% of desire state. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have visibility on the state of our configurations. We can prove that we meet our and security standards with Rudder which help us to obtain certifications like PCI-DSS, GDPR ... ### 9. Why more people should use Rudder **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** At ITsense we strongly support open source project and Rudder has always been a tool with tremendous potential. First of all, Rudder is very easy to instal an deploy; the user interface is cleverly designed and they provide a full documentation to help you get started (we do apreciate that they have translated it). In addition we appreciate the codeless user interface with build-in template library. At last, Rudder can manage quite everything (only HP-UX and iOS don't have their own agent version), everything else is available already. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** So few people in the community. Even though it's growing, it's hard for Rudder to compete against giants ( such as Puppet for instance). Also it can be difficult to use before understanding how it works. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to manage both our server and our client's server. Rudder is really usefull time-saving automation tool. ### 10. Great "Plug-And-Play" Configuration Management Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rémi V. | Business & Integration Architecture Manager | Infrastructure Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** Rudder is very easy to install and setup with a basic configuration set. The Audit mode is a killer feature, and thanks to the clean webgui you have a clear dashboard to know what you have to fix. API is also usefull if you want to automate some tasks and plug it to another tool (like Ansible to perform some tasks). Moreover, the agent node has a very light footprint on the nodes. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** Be carefull when writing complex techniques and directives, as it can lead to some headache. I use Rudder for continuous configuration once servers are deployed. I tried using it for deploy nodes from scratch, but there are better tools for that use case. It would be nice to edit techniques directly from CLI. **Recommendations to others considering Rudder:** use rudder to check configuration once servers are deployed. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was looking for a nice vizualisation tool to check servers conformity. Rudder was the only one with a clean dashboard, plus simple drag and drop configuration system. ### 11. One of the easiest configuration management tool on the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Olivier M. | IT Systems Expert - Linux Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** Rudder has by far the lowest learning curve across configuration management tools on the market. Once the server side is deployed, installing and pluging in agents is a breeze. Where other tools force you to learn fancy implemented DSL, brand new functionnal languages or specific YAML syntaxes, Rudder let's you create your management rules in a very graphical way that your whole team will be able to adapt to very quickly and easily. The graphical reporting let's you quickly access the compliance of your whole infrastructure. The integrated inventory, can easily be queried from the integrated API to let you programmatically populate other internal tools - Big plus when having to integrate 3rd party corporate tools. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** The graphical interface - almost only - can sometimes be less flexible than what could be provided. Luckily the Rudder devs are working on that point with the integrated technique editor. It needs some easier way to plug shared-files with external Git repositories to make admin life easier. Git push to deploy modifications also makes sense. **Recommendations to others considering Rudder:** Coming from a "classical" IT system and/or Infrastructure team, moving to a full infrastructure/configuration as code can be a big challenge, especially depending on the dev skillset of your teams. Rudder can make your team leverage automation and configuration management in an easier an quicker way. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Baseline compliance and installation reproducibility of more than 5 hundreds production servers. ### 12. Powerfull long-term compliance ensured **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** The desired state is enforced continously and near real-time reporting is provided on a very detailed level, which is easy to understand in the complex but useful WebGUI. Supported operating systems range in a very large timeframe, which is essential for enterprise distros having sometimes ~5-8 years of lifetime. The REST API provides a quite usable way to interface with the functionalities, and also the Datasource plugin allows to integrate it with other existing **What do you dislike about Rudder?** Multi-staged environments are hard to maintain, and are only working when all environments share the exact same version. Any change introduced on a policy level results in it getting pulled in by all nodes, there is no built-in staged rollout with canaries and/or 1-5-10..% rollouts, so it needs to be worked around by the admins/architects. The policy generation is done on a central server, which is OK if you have <3000 nodes, but over 5000 it adds a quite big overhead on each bit policy change. **Recommendations to others considering Rudder:** Do use if you have audit/compliance requirement for long-running instances. Do not use if you are using short-lived cloud instances / container. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to manage 3k+ physical and 12k+ virtual servers, which are not cloud-based, and are long-running instances (many years), and security and config-compliance (also reporting) is an important aspect of managing those. ### 13. Quick setup and Easy deployment for hundred remote systems **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francois B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** the server installation is very simple and the rules create is quickly learned to make custom deployment **What do you dislike about Rudder?** the logging flow is sometime too high if you are on limited bandwidth **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** managing remote device over the world to maintain system update to date and push new internal software release. The device was connected over mobile network without broadband so we need a tools who can realize secure update (only when everything is localy ready) ### 14. Powerful and easy to use configuration management tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pierrick P. | Ingénieur supervision, systeme et réseaux chez Open-IT.ch, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** creating rules with a easy to use graphical interface, free linux agent with a lot of pre-defined rules, low ressources consumption and an agent with a "push" mode protocol. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** They need to improve the Windows agent wit mores rules and templates. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Rudder as an internal tool for manage our servers and to spread new features and maintaining it in the state of the art. We use rudder for our customers too for same reason. ### 15. Integration between Rudder and iTop **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** During our integration project we had to integrate Rudder information into iTop CMDB What is really interesting is that we collect easily all the information using the REST/JSON API which complete and easy to use. As of today we use Rudder to collect the system inventory and then we link them to Directive and Rules status. This all an configuration manager to get in one click all the rules non compliant that can impact an application solution. Moreover we worked directly with the R&D team that was really responsive and that improved a lot the REST web services over the different version **What do you dislike about Rudder?** As of today the user management is not really easy to manage as we cannot make it in the web user interface. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration of iTop for some of our customers that want to analyse the impact of non compliant system rule on their business application ### 16. Want an automation, configuration management and compliance checking tool that just works ? **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** It just works, deploys on a vast range of operating systems and enables me to manage configuration (or verify its state) easily, without eating tons of resources. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** May sometimes prove itself a bit difficult to debug, but the tooling to guide the user through the process has improved a lot since the latest releases. **Recommendations to others considering Rudder:** Start simple: manage low level things, build knowledge about Rudder and your own infrastructure configuration needs, and improve. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Configuration management accessible to the majority of users, with clean and readable feedback. ### 17. Compliance rocks! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas (Nÿco) V. | Consultant solutions opensource collaboration/communication, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** Deployments are done by many tools with different levels of happiness, but the real killer quality of Rudder is its capacity to measure conformity of what you've deployed, otherwise you stay blind. **What do you dislike about Rudder?** Maybe it is not famous enough for its differentiator... **Recommendations to others considering Rudder:** The team behind Rudder is just awesome **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is highly customisable and constantly evolves in the right directions. Its CFengine basis make it trustful. Its grows to large scale. The GPLv3 license rocks. ### 18. Centralisation an managment of configurations on some severals hundred of computers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guillaume B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Rudder?** Appearance and ergonomics Complience report Simplicity of installation **What do you dislike about Rudder?** Presentation of "File download" directive wen you have a lot of files. Dificulty to avoid redundancy between rules an directives. **What problems is Rudder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralisation of configurations. ## Rudder Discussions - [What is Rudder used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-rudder-used-for) - [View Rudder pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/rudder/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-04+01%3A37%3A11+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=590988a6-41e4-4a1a-8775-4efc3f974778&secure%5Btoken%5D=805a1b58c503ff5d19a6018c8ef200face036f2be6e14b80818392e8149e60dd&format=llm_user) ## Rudder Features **Generative AI - Security Compliance** - Predictive Risk - Automated Documentation ## Top Rudder Alternatives - [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (369 reviews) - [Puppet Enterprise](https://www.g2.com/products/puppet-enterprise/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (43 reviews) - [CloudBees](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudbees/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (591 reviews)