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Custom proprietary alert systems

The Expensive Option

  • Closed Source (Black box)
  • Expensive monthly fees per user
  • Data stored on their servers
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10 people
150100200+
$

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Estimated Annual Waste
$1,440
Monthly Burn Rate$120
5-Year Projection$7,200
Cost with Self-Hosted$0
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Detailed Breakdown

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Multi-second polling
Sub-second Kafka
1
Socket / Binary
Kafka / JSON
2
Legacy Telnet
Modern Web API