Hey Phil, What use cases are you trying to work on?
I work for Kentik on the product side of things and this kind of info is very interesting for me to hear. Happy to take your reply in a DM or here. Dan On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 6:01 AM Phil Lavin <phil.la...@cloudcall.com> wrote: > > Doesn't Kentik cost like $2000 a month minimum? > > We recently got a quote from Kentik and I fell off my chair. The annual > cost was slightly more than the total upfront purchase cost of the hardware > they were collecting Flow from and was significantly more than the total > cost each year of running the network (when factoring in power, > cross-connects, transit, etc.). I'm told that collecting Flow and BGP from > two routers which both do < 10Gbit is "~$32K USD per year for Kentik Pro" - > even that feels disproportionally expensive. It does look like an excellent > product though I'm struggling to find a business case that justifies the > cost on relatively small (sub 2 Tbit/s) networks. > -- Thanks, Dan
