RE: Service Provider NetFlow Collectors

[Phil Lavin <phil.lavin () cloudcall com>]

> 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.