Cut WCF Logging Costs 85% vs. Splunk
Manufacturing company scenario: 18 WCF services across production (EDI OrderImport, MES ProductionScheduling, QualityControl, ShipmentTracking, SupplierPortal, etc.). Splunk ingests 15GB/day of WCF trace data. Splunk cost: $24,000/year (500MB/day license tier × 30 = 15GB overage fees).
Before Nodinite: Splunk indexes all WCF trace events but truncates SOAP payloads >10KB (Splunk TRUNCATE
setting). Production issue: "QualityControl service rejected Part #XYZ-789, but we can't see the full inspection report XML (42KB payload)." Engineers can't root cause without full data.
With Nodinite: Nodinite Pickup Service consumes trace files from C:\inetpub\logs\WCF\
folder. SQL Server stores unlimited SOAP payloads (42KB QualityControl inspection reports, 125KB EDI X12 856 shipments, 8KB OrderImport purchase orders). Full-text search on payloads. No truncation.
Cost comparison:
- Splunk: $24,000/year license + $12,000/year AWS S3 long-term storage = $36,000/year
- Nodinite: $3,600/year license + $1,800/year SQL Server storage (15GB/day × 365 days × 2-year retention = 10.95TB compressed to 2TB) = $5,400/year
- Savings: $30,600/year (85% reduction)
Plus: Full payloads retained (no 10KB truncation), 7-year retention vs. Splunk 90-day default, business self-service Log Views (no Splunk SPL query language required).