Rapax 2.0 · NOC-in-a-Box

Everything a NOC needs. None of the platform team.

Rapax 2.0 puts log collection, polling, correlation, root cause, service impact, ticketing and SLA reporting in one hosted platform. It is built so one NOC manager runs it in a couple of hours a week (our design target), and you can try it free for 14 days on your own network.

Hosted for you in the US, Canada, Mexico or Europe. A login to your own system within two business days.

The real cost of monitoring

The license is the cheapest part.

Most teams don’t struggle with monitoring because their tools lack features. They struggle because running the tools takes expertise they can’t hire, and the people they have are needed on the network.

52%of network teams struggle to hire and keep network engineers, up from 26% in 2022.EMA, 2026 [1]
37%of alerts point to a real problem. The rest is noise someone has to read.EMA, 2026 [2]
~$141Ka year for one fully loaded systems administrator, before recruiting or training.BLS median wage × benefits share; our arithmetic [3]

Running the tools costs more than buying them.

Every monitoring tool brings its own upgrades, certificates, backups, integrations and credentials. The typical IT organization runs 4 to 10 of them. We estimate that one self-hosted platform takes a quarter to half of a person to keep alive.

Rapax 2.0 is one platform with one thing to administer, and the administration runs from the browser.

See the cost model

Chart: the labor to run monitoring costs more than the software (modeled from BLS data)
Labor to run monitoring against the software itself. Modeled from BLS data; assumptions shown on the NOC-in-a-Box page.
What’s in the box

One platform where you used to run several.

NOC-in-a-Box is the real-time operations stack in one hosted system, plus the AI agents and setup hours to put it to work. Your team still makes the calls. Rapax does the watching, sorting and paperwork.

Log collection

Syslog and SNMP trap receiver, search, live tail and export.

Polling

Ping and SNMP v2c/v3 with latency and loss, plus a discovery wizard.

Correlation and root cause

Parent/child, topology and service correlation. Root cause is one click away.

Service impact

Every alert mapped to the business services and customers it affects.

Availability and SLA

Targets, error budgets and scheduled reports per device and service.

Analytics

Baselines, anomaly detection and capacity forecasts that give you a date.

Ticketing and portal

Native incident management, a customer portal and an AI tier-1 agent.

Knowledge

Answers grounded in your own runbooks, with the source cited.

See everything in the box  ·  How the platform works

One incident, start to finish

One problem, not three alerts.

1

Detect

A remote collector reports the failure to Rapax over TLS.

2

Correlate

Downstream alerts nest under one parent: a router outage and its two failed interfaces show as one critical problem.

3

Show impact

The alert names the business service that is down and the customers on it.

4

Answer

Ask what to do and get the answer from your own runbook, with the source cited.

5

Update

The AI tier-1 agent updates the ticket and the customer portal.

6

Close

An administrator confirms the fix. No command line, no specialist.

Rapax console showing a router outage with its two failed interfaces nested beneath it as one critical problem
The Rapax console: a router outage with its two failed interfaces nested beneath it. Product screen.
Ask the KB answer that cites the runbook it came from and says what the knowledge base does not cover
Every answer cites its source, and says what your documentation does not cover.
Built to run itself

A couple of hours a week. Design target

Most assurance platforms assume a dedicated team behind every install. Rapax 2.0 assumes you don’t have one.

  • Updates and patches in one click, with a snapshot first and rollback if anything fails
  • Backups and Let’s Encrypt certificates that look after themselves
  • New devices found by discovery and held until you approve them
  • Users, collectors, reports and components managed from the browser

The two-hour week is our design target for running the tools, not a measurement and not incident work. Test it during your evaluation.

Updates and patches page running an update from the browser with live output and job history
Updates run from the browser with live output and a full job history.
Who it’s for

Built for teams that run networks without a platform team.

For network and IT managers

IT operations

A 40-person IT department doesn’t need four monitoring tools and a specialist for each. Get the coverage of several tools with the administration of one.

Rapax for IT operations

For MSPs and partners

Managed service providers

One platform, every customer in their own locked view, with their own branding, reports and support portal. You do not need expensive, complex tools to run an MSP.

Rapax for MSPs

For ISPs and regional carriers

Service providers

Fiber cuts, PON outages and subscriber impact in one alert, built from the network drawings you already have.

Rapax for service providers

Why trust it

Tested at release. Proven in production telecom.

Our data

Release quality

Rapax 2.0 passed all 46 of its test suites at general availability: 4,475 checks, zero failures. ZAP/OWASP security testing is part of every release.

Customer deployment

Production telecom

Before 2.0, a mid-market fiber ISP serving more than 600,000 subscribers deployed Rapax against its existing Kafka streams. The initial deployment took under two hours, with no device agents and no schema changes.

TM Forum Catalyst

Industry showcase

Demonstrated at TM Forum DTW Ignite 2026 in a multi-vendor Catalyst: three sites, 113 devices and six equipment vendors.

Leadership

Built by people who did this before

Rapax is led by founder Shawn Ennis, who spent 25 years building service assurance platforms and founded Assure1, acquired by Oracle in 2021.

About Rapax

Sources and notes
  1. EMA Network Management Megatrends 2026: 52% struggle to hire and keep network engineers (26% in 2022).
  2. Network World on EMA 2026: 37% of alerts point to a real problem; 4 to 10 tools per organization.
  3. BLS Occupational Outlook, network and computer systems administrators (median wage $99,130) × 1/(1−0.299) from BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, December 2025 (benefits 29.9% of compensation) = about $141,000. Our arithmetic.
  4. Platform administration at 0.25–0.5 of a person is our estimate from field experience, not a survey figure.
Getting started

Days, not quarters.

No servers to approve, no integrator to hire, no RFP. Fill in a short form and see correlated alerts on your own devices.

1

Request

Tell us your size, region and devices. It takes about three minutes, and we never ask for passwords or API keys.

2

Sign in

Within two business days you get a login to your own hosted Rapax system. The Get Started guide walks you through setup.

3

Decide by day 14

Keep it with a license install and everything you built stays. Or walk away and owe nothing.

Run the network, not the tools.

Request your free 14-day evaluation and get a login to your own Rapax system within two business days.

Request your free evaluation

Prefer to talk first? Book 15 minutes or email sales@rapax.us.