Logging and monitoring: the business case for the move

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Current platforms

Add the logging, monitoring and related platforms you pay for today.

Volumes

Today's volumes for the platforms being replaced.

GB
devices
days
Assumed
years
To confirm per data type

Run cost of the open stack

Annual, from the end of implementation. Unit rates are placeholders until the platform is sized.

Annual run cost–

Volume-driven

Logging platform hosting
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per GB a dayPlaceholder rate. At a 90-day searchable window; scales with the window.
Archive storage
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per GB a monthFrom your storage quote. Charged on the archive's average size over the horizon.
Logging platform licence and support
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per GB a dayPlaceholder rate. Graylog Open has no licence fee. Graylog Enterprise is priced on daily volume, from $15,000 a year at 10 GB a day (list price, 27 October 2026). The edition depends on whether archive tiering, single sign-on or audit logs are required.
Monitoring hosting (Zabbix)
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per devicePlaceholder rate. No licence fee; servers and proxies only.
Security hosting (Wazuh)
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per devicePlaceholder rate. No licence fee.

People and support

Internal operationsYour team's time to run the platform. Placeholder until confirmed
Deployflow managed supportOptional. Patching, upgrades and incident response; you retain ownership
SizifOptional. Deployflow's event intelligence layer; excluded until selected and priced

Implementation

Timeline, fee and the conventions the figures are read with.

Design, build, migration and enablement by Deployflow. Illustrative until estimated; approval lead times excluded
The run cost starts when it ends
Both estates run; nothing is retired before acceptance
A renewal that falls before acceptance extends that contract by one term
Counted from acceptance, once measured

Financial conventions

Three is usual; five for estate migrations
Costs +10%; each contract retired one term later
Applied to the net present value

Business case

Generated from the figures entered; the link carries them.
CurrentProposedRetained, unchanged