What is manual checking really costing you?
Estimate the time and money spent on manual checks - and what you'd get back if 2Steps ran them instead.
Most IT teams have someone manually check critical apps on a schedule just to confirm things still work. This calculator estimates the labor cost of that routine, plus the cost of outages missed between checks.
Your current process
Adjust the numbers to match your environment. Every field is editable.
Who runs the checks
Selecting a role fills in a typical AU salary below. Adjust it to your own team.
Total cost to employ: base salary plus super, leave, and overhead.
The manual check routine
Citrix published apps, VDI pools, core business systems.
Login, navigate, verify the screen, log out.
E.g. start of day, end of day, after a change, or spot-checks in between.
Downtime impact (optional)
Lost productivity or revenue while a critical app is unusable.
Roughly incidents per year × extra hours they'd go unnoticed between manual checks.
Your estimated annual value
Updates live as you adjust the numbers.
$0
Estimated value per year
Hours reclaimed
0 hrs/yr
Labor value reclaimed
$0
Downtime cost avoided
$0
Manual routine today
0 hrs/yr · $0
$0
Estimated value over 3 years
Estimates only, based on the assumptions above. Adjust them to match your environment. 2Steps pricing is consumption-based on the number of user journeys monitored; talk to us for an exact quote and payback period.
A periodic check isn't the same as watching all day.
A manual routine only ever tells you the state of things at the moment someone happened to look.
1-2×
Typical manual check rounds per day
24/7
2Steps coverage, nights and weekends included
~3 hrs
Median detection time saved per incident
30 sec
Average time for 2Steps to detect and alert