Value calculator

What is evidence-backed network assurance worth to your team?

Enter six numbers about your network operations. The model shows a range (a conservative case and a base case) with engineer capacity and outage economics kept separate, and the share of outage cost you choose to count always visible. Nothing here uses a vendor target as a result.

Your numbers

Network / NOC engineers in scope (FTE)

Fully loaded annual cost per engineer ($)

High-impact (P1/P2) network incidents per month

Average high-impact outage duration, detect + resolve (minutes)

Industry average: 41 minutes to detect + 54 to resolve (New Relic, 2026 Observability Forecast).

Cost per hour of a high-impact outage ($)

Reference points: 57% of organizations said their most recent major outage cost more than $100,000 (Uptime Institute, 2026); the survey mean across 2,575 respondents was $1.85M per hour (New Relic, 2026), most organizations’ own figures are far lower, so build your own below.

Help me estimate cost per hour

Annual revenue ($)

Share that depends on the network (%)

Operating hours per year

Share lost, not deferred, in an outage (%)

Employees affected

Their loaded hourly cost ($)

Productivity lost (%)

Other direct cost per hour ($)

Network changes per month

Optional: annual investment you would consider ($)

Advanced assumptions (defaults from the full model)

Other incidents per month

Engineer-hours per high-impact incident

Engineer-hours per other incident

Share of the effort reduction that applies to other incidents (%)

Alert-triage hours per week (team)

Hours per change: pre-checks + verification

RCA documentation hours per high-impact incident

Audit-evidence hours per year

Share of restoration time spent localizing the fault (%)

Incidents that recur within 90 days (%)

Incidents caused by a change (%)

Productive hours per engineer per year

What the model says

Share of modeled outage cost you choose to count (realization: Conservative starts at 25%, Base at 50%; move it yourself): 50%

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Sources: New Relic (opens in a new tab), 2026 Observability Forecast (opens in a new tab) (September 2026): average 41 minutes to detect and 54 minutes to resolve a high-impact outage; mean cost $1.85M per hour; engineers spend 37% of their time on disruptions. Uptime Institute (opens in a new tab), Annual Outage Analysis 2026 (opens in a new tab) (May 2026): 57% of respondents said their most recent major outage cost more than $100,000; one in five more than $1 million. Improvement assumptions are hypotheses to be measured in a pilot, not results. Capacity is expressed as FTE-equivalents of engineer time redeployed, not headcount reduction.

Numbers are the start of the conversation.

The pilot replaces every assumption above with a measurement from your own network.

Scope a proof of value