Compare the Top On-Premises Runbook Automation Platforms as of August 2025

What are On-Premises Runbook Automation Platforms?

Runbook automation platforms are designed to automate repetitive and routine IT operations tasks, improving efficiency and reducing human error. These platforms allow businesses to create, manage, and execute workflows (runbooks) that automate system monitoring, incident response, software deployments, patch management, and other critical operations tasks. By integrating with various IT systems, cloud services, and monitoring tools, runbook automation platforms enable IT teams to respond to events and incidents in real-time, following predefined processes to maintain system uptime and compliance. Additionally, they often include features for error handling, logging, and alerting, ensuring that operations are performed smoothly and that issues are addressed proactively. These platforms help businesses achieve faster response times, improve operational consistency, and enhance scalability. Compare and read user reviews of the best On-Premises Runbook Automation platforms currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Azure Automation
    Automate all of those frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks. Azure Automation service helps you focus on work that adds business value. By reducing errors and boosting efficiency, it also helps to lower your operational costs. Update Windows and Linux systems across hybrid environments. Monitor update compliance across Azure, on-premises, and other cloud platforms for Windows and Linux. Schedule deployments to orchestrate the installation of updates within a defined maintenance window. Author and manage PowerShell configurations, import configuration scripts, and generate node configurations—all in the cloud. Use Azure Configuration Management to monitor and automatically update machine configuration across physical and virtual machines, Windows, or Linux—in the cloud or on-premises. & more
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    Shoreline

    Shoreline

    Shoreline.io

    Shoreline is the Cloud Reliability platform — the only platform that lets DevOps engineers build automations in an afternoon, and fix issues forever. Shoreline reduces on-call complexity by running across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, and VMs allowing operators to manage their entire fleet as if it were a single box. Debugging and repairing issues is easy with advanced tooling for your best SREs, automated runbooks for the broader team, and a platform that makes building automations 30X faster. Shoreline does the heavy lifting, setting up monitors and building repair scripts, so that customers only need to configure them for their environment. Shoreline’s modern “Operations at the Edge” architecture runs efficient agents in the background of all monitored hosts. Agents run as a DaemonSet on Kubernetes or an installed package on VMs (apt, yum). The Shoreline backend is hosted by Shoreline in AWS, or deployed in your AWS virtual private cloud.
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    Runbook Studio
    Kelverion's Runbook Studio is a graphical design application that enables organizations to harness the power of Azure Automation for developers and non-developers alike. The Studio comes packaged with integrations and solutions, making the process of creating, managing, and supporting automation runbooks accessible to all team members. It offers a drag-and-drop, code-free, graphical authoring approach, empowering users to create runbooks using a low-code/no-code capability. This approach allows users to transform manual processes into automation without the need to write any code, utilizing shapes, diagrams, and drop-down list forms. Runbook Studio provides over 800 integrations, including multi-vendor, cloud, and on-premise integrations, enabling API connections between enterprise IT systems. It also offers fully configured Runbook Solutions powered by Azure Automation for common automation use cases, ready to deploy at scale in a production environment with full logging.
    Starting Price: $1,095 per month
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    XiteiT

    XiteiT

    XiteiT

    Master your cloud operation flow with a centralized platform for all production events, runbook governance, automations, operational procedures and advanced analytics. Built to improve productivity and assist every team member to achieve more. Whether you are running on-premise or cloud native, a scale-up startup or a multinational, XiteiT takes away the pain of managing the day to day complexities of your cloud operations team. A CloudOps orchestration and automation platform that integrates all of an organization’s monitoring, productivity tools and related automation platforms. Manage all your cloud operational tasks from one place to create 360o observability and operational consistency utilizing existing people and processes for a more effective incident response and production management. Drive operational visibility, so decisions are prioritized, and remediation time is dramatically reduced.
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    Kelverion Automation Portal
    Kelverion's Automation Portal is a lightweight, self-service interface designed to simplify IT process automation by enabling end users and IT teams to trigger, track, and manage automated tasks across various platforms. It offers a forms-driven, intuitive interface that integrates seamlessly with automation tools like Azure Automation, Power Automate, Logic Apps, and System Center Orchestrator, as well as third-party systems via a full REST API. The portal supports both on-premise and cloud-hosted deployments and can be hosted as an IIS web application. Authentication is handled through Microsoft Entra ID, ensuring enterprise-grade user security. Key features include a live dashboard displaying time and cost savings from automation, request statuses, and top requests; support for high availability via Windows Network Load Balancing (NLB), allowing users to submit and manage IT requests on the go.
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    Cutover

    Cutover

    Cutover

    The Cutover platform enables enterprises to simplify complexity, streamline work, and increase visibility. Cutover’s AI-powered automated runbooks connect teams, technology, and systems, increasing efficiency and reducing risk in IT disaster and cyber recovery, cloud migration, release management, and technology implementation. As a centralized system of execution, Cutover differentiates itself with scalable and proven dynamic, automated runbook technology that transforms enterprise IT operations with a new way of working. Cutover enables the creation of a template library of comprehensive, executable, and auditable runbooks covering the entire IT infrastructure. Cutover is trusted by world-leading institutions, including the three largest US banks and three of the world’s five largest investment banks.
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    HCL iAutomate

    HCL iAutomate

    HCLSoftware

    HCL iAutomate is a part of Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration offering under the HCLSoftware AI & Intelligent Operations framework. It is an Intelligent Runbook Automation product that brings Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation together to simplify and automate enterprise IT operation lifecycle. It leverages Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to comprehend issues, recommend corrective actions, and initiate automatic resolution, enabling zero-touch automation. By leveraging a repository of over 3400 configurable and reusable runbooks, it provides robust end-to-end incident remediation and task automation across the infrastructure and applications landscape.
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