Collectord
Focus on your applications. We will take care of infrastructure monitoring and log forwarding.
Two ways to license Collectord. Self-service starts at $1.25 per vCPU per month, billed monthly via Stripe - sign up online and start in minutes. Business / Enterprise customers get annual contracts with volume pricing, SLA-backed support, and offline-license options.
Self-service
$1.25 / vCPU / month
Billed monthly via Stripe, measured hourly.
- Pay only for what's running - your bill drops automatically when you scale down
- Built for autoscaling - scale up and down freely
- Cancel anytime via the customer portal
- Shared license across all our solutions
- Online license verification (required for usage metering)
- Updates, bug fixes, and access to our knowledge base
- No vendor onboarding required
Business / Enterprise
From $23 / vCPU / year, with volume tiers
Annual contract. Multi-year discounts available.
Larger deployments pay significantly lower per-vCPU rates — typically $6–$15 per vCPU at 1,000+ cores.
- 2-year and 3-year terms with locked pricing
- Enterprise Support with 2-business-day response SLA (1,000+ vCPUs)
- Offline (air-gapped) license available (4,000+ vCPUs)
- Procurement and legal review supported
- Named contact for technical questions and onboarding
- Shared license across all our solutions
- Updates, bug fixes, and access to our knowledge base
Every license includes the full Splunk app - 50+ pre-built dashboards, 39+ pre-configured alerts, search macros, lookups, and field extractions.
Browse the Kubernetes dashboards → · Compare to Splunk Connect for K8s & OTel → · OpenShift dashboards →
Evaluation Licenses
Try Collectord yourself.
Receive your trial license by email instantly. Need higher capacity, an offline license, or a longer term? Let us know and we'll work with you.
Developer License
For homelabs, learning, and personal projects.
- Licensed capacity up to 64 vCPUs (typically 4–8 nodes)
- License term: 180 days, renewable
- Online license verification required
- Not for production use at scale - see Self-service when you're ready to deploy commercially
Evaluation License
For teams testing Outcold for production deployment.
- Licensed capacity up to 384 vCPUs (typically 12–24 nodes)
- License term: 30 days
- Online license verification required
- Not for production use - when you're ready to deploy, our team will help you get to a paid license
Custom Evaluation
Need something the standard licenses don't cover?
- More than 384 vCPUs of test capacity
- Offline (air-gapped) trial license
- Longer evaluation window
- Multiple test environments
Kubernetes Search
Live cluster access, priced per user.
Kubernetes Search is a separate Splunk app that queries the live Kubernetes API right from the search bar - no agent in the cluster, no ingestion. It runs free for one user and one cluster on one search head; a paid license, priced per user, adds your whole team, any number of clusters, search head clustering, per-user credentials, and impersonation. Tell us about your environment and we'll send a quote.
Kubernetes Search license
Free tier included - one user and one cluster on a single search head, no license key required. A paid license unlocks:
- Your whole team, priced per user
- Any number of clusters, and search head clustering
- Per-user credentials and Kubernetes user impersonation
- A 30-day evaluation is available on request
Search for AWS
Live AWS access, priced per user.
Search for AWS is a separate Splunk app that queries the live AWS APIs right from the search bar - inventory, CloudWatch logs and metrics, CloudTrail, Athena and Cost Explorer - with nothing ingested. It runs free for one user and one account on one search head; a paid license, priced per user, adds your whole team, any number of accounts, search head clustering, assumed roles and per-user credentials. AWS bills its API calls to your account as usual. Tell us about your environment and we'll send a quote.
Search for AWS license
Free tier included - one user and one account with access keys or the instance role, on a single search head, no license key required. A paid license unlocks:
- Your whole team, priced per user
- Any number of accounts, and search head clustering
- Assumed roles and per-user credentials
- An evaluation license is available on request
OS AI Agent
Your model, your Splunk, priced per user.
OS AI Agent is a separate Splunk app: an AI agent that runs inside Splunk on the model you choose - OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or a local model - and in Chat changes nothing without your approval. You pay your model provider directly. It is free for one provider and one user on one installation, for non-commercial use; a paid license, priced per user, adds any number of providers, your whole team, and commercial use. Tell us about your environment and we'll send a quote.
OS AI Agent license
Free tier included - one provider and one user on one installation, for non-commercial use, no license key required. A paid license unlocks:
- Any number of providers
- Your whole team, priced per user
- Commercial use
- An evaluation license is available on request
Partners and Resellers
We work with partners and resellers.
This list is not complete. If you are a partner, feel free to send us a logo to update this page. If you are a customer, it's highly likely we work with a reseller/Splunk partner that is not on this list.
About Outcold Solutions
Outcold Solutions builds applications for Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. Our certified monitoring solutions, powered by Collectord, bring logs, metrics and events from Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker clusters, Linux hosts and Windows containers into Splunk, with the dashboards and alerts that help developers watch their applications and operators keep their clusters healthy. Our search apps query Kubernetes and AWS live from the search bar, with nothing to ingest, and OS AI Agent puts the model you choose to work inside Splunk, with each user's own permissions. Since 2017 we have been helping businesses keep what they need to answer complex questions about their infrastructure in one place.
