Right if talking top notch that’s 3-4M/y alone. Admittedly I’m completely unaware what the splunk’s ballpark rate is (i heard it’s quite high) but still I doubt that very many companies are at that scale. Also in the current market convincing execs to save on something that doesn’t translate directly to cogs can be a challenging proposition =)

I’ve heard this before and it sounds like Splunk’s margins are just way too high. Why doesn’t someone sell a logging platform that’s cheaper than writing your own at scale?