- Overview
- Requirements
- Recommended: Deployment templates
- Manual: Preparing the installation
- Manual: Preparing the installation
- Step 1: Configuring the OCI-compliant registry for offline installations
- Step 2: Configuring the external objectstore
- Step 3: Configuring High Availability Add-on
- Step 4: Configuring Microsoft SQL Server
- Step 5: Configuring the load balancer
- Step 6: Configuring the DNS
- Step 7: Configuring the disks
- Step 8: Configuring kernel and OS level settings
- Step 9: Configuring the node ports
- Step 10: Applying miscellaneous settings
- Step 12: Validating and installing the required RPM packages
- Step 13: Generating cluster_config.json
- Cluster_config.json Sample
- General configuration
- Profile configuration
- Certificate configuration
- Database configuration
- External Objectstore configuration
- Pre-signed URL configuration
- ArgoCD configuration
- External OCI-compliant registry configuration
- Disaster recovery: Active/Passive and Active/Active configurations
- High Availability Add-on configuration
- Orchestrator-specific configuration
- Insights-specific configuration
- Process Mining-specific configuration
- Document Understanding-specific configuration
- Automation Suite Robots-specific configuration
- AI Center-specific configuration
- Monitoring configuration
- Optional: Configuring the proxy server
- Optional: Enabling resilience to zonal failures in a multi-node HA-ready production cluster
- Optional: Passing custom resolv.conf
- Optional: Increasing fault tolerance
- Adding a dedicated agent node with GPU support
- Adding a dedicated agent Node for Task Mining
- Connecting Task Mining application
- Adding a Dedicated Agent Node for Automation Suite Robots
- Step 15: Configuring the temporary Docker registry for offline installations
- Step 16: Validating the prerequisites for the installation
- Manual: Performing the installation
- Post-installation
- Cluster administration
- Managing products
- Getting Started with the Cluster Administration portal
- Migrating objectstore from persistent volume to raw disks
- Migrating from in-cluster to external High Availability Add-on
- Migrating data between objectstores
- Migrating in-cluster objectstore to external objectstore
- Migrating to an external OCI-compliant registry
- Switching to the secondary cluster manually in an Active/Passive setup
- Disaster Recovery: Performing post-installation operations
- Converting an existing installation to multi-site setup
- Guidelines on upgrading an Active/Passive or Active/Active deployment
- Guidelines on backing up and restoring an Active/Passive or Active/Active deployment
- Monitoring and alerting
- Migration and upgrade
- Migrating between Automation Suite clusters
- Upgrading Automation Suite
- Downloading the installation packages and getting all the files on the first server node
- Retrieving the latest applied configuration from the cluster
- Updating the cluster configuration
- Configuring the OCI-compliant registry for offline installations
- Executing the upgrade
- Performing post-upgrade operations
- Applying a patch
- Product-specific configuration
- Best practices and maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- How to troubleshoot services during installation
- How to uninstall the cluster
- How to clean up offline artifacts to improve disk space
- How to clear Redis data
- How to enable Istio logging
- How to manually clean up logs
- How to clean up old logs stored in the sf-logs bucket
- How to disable streaming logs for AI Center
- How to debug failed Automation Suite installations
- How to delete images from the old installer after upgrade
- How to disable TX checksum offloading
- How to manually set the ArgoCD log level to Info
- How to expand AI Center storage
- How to generate the encoded pull_secret_value for external registries
- How to address weak ciphers in TLS 1.2
- How to check the TLS version
- Unable to run an offline installation on RHEL 8.4 OS
- Error in downloading the bundle
- Offline installation fails because of missing binary
- Certificate issue in offline installation
- SQL connection string validation error
- Prerequisite check for selinux iscsid module fails
- Azure disk not marked as SSD
- Failure after certificate update
- Antivirus causes installation issues
- Automation Suite not working after OS upgrade
- Automation Suite requires backlog_wait_time to be set to 0
- Volume unable to mount due to not being ready for workloads
- Support bundle log collection failure
- Single-node upgrade fails at the fabric stage
- Upgrade fails due to unhealthy Ceph
- RKE2 not getting started due to space issue
- Volume unable to mount and remains in attach/detach loop state
- Upgrade fails due to classic objects in the Orchestrator database
- Ceph cluster found in a degraded state after side-by-side upgrade
- Unhealthy Insights component causes the migration to fail
- Service upgrade fails for Apps
- In-place upgrade timeouts
- Docker registry migration stuck in PVC deletion stage
- AI Center provisioning failure after upgrading to 2023.10 or later
- Upgrade fails in offline environments
- SQL validation fails during upgrade
- snapshot-controller-crds pod in CrashLoopBackOff state after upgrade
- Setting a timeout interval for the management portals
- Authentication not working after migration
- Kinit: Cannot find KDC for realm <AD Domain> while getting initial credentials
- Kinit: Keytab contains no suitable keys for *** while getting initial credentials
- GSSAPI operation failed due to invalid status code
- Alarm received for failed Kerberos-tgt-update job
- SSPI provider: Server not found in Kerberos database
- Login failed for AD user due to disabled account
- ArgoCD login failed
- Update the underlying directory connections
- Failure to get the sandbox image
- Pods not showing in ArgoCD UI
- Redis probe failure
- RKE2 server fails to start
- Secret not found in UiPath namespace
- ArgoCD goes into progressing state after first installation
- MongoDB pods in CrashLoopBackOff or pending PVC provisioning after deletion
- Pods stuck in Init:0/X
- Missing Ceph-rook metrics from monitoring dashboards
- Running High Availability with Process Mining
- Process Mining ingestion failed when logged in using Kerberos
- After Disaster Recovery Dapr is not working properly for Process Mining and Task Mining
- Unable to connect to AutomationSuite_ProcessMining_Warehouse database using a pyodbc format connection string
- Airflow installation fails with sqlalchemy.exc.ArgumentError: Could not parse rfc1738 URL from string ''
- How to add an IP table rule to use SQL Server port 1433
- Automation Suite certificate is not trusted from the server where CData Sync is running
- Running the diagnostics tool
- Using the Automation Suite support bundle
- Exploring Logs
Estimating cloud infrastructure costs
On this page, we use the cloud templates as a reference point to evaluate the infrastructure costs required to support Automation suite. We also call out a few additional notes to help forecast the total cost of ownership for Automation Suite. The resulting estimates can approximate your future spending on infrastructure with high confidence for cloud deployments. You can also use the estimates as a reference point to compare the costs of physical bare-metal implementations.
Each cloud template deployment automatically provisions a set of components based on the provided inputs.
To calculate the cost of the infrastructure provisioned by the cloud templates based on your scenario needs, refer to the following guidelines and estimates.
There are multiple factors impacting the cost of the infrastructure deployed by the cloud templates, such as the following:
- Number of server nodes
- Server node instance type
- Number of agent nodes
- Number of GPU nodes
- GPU node instance type
- Products selected
You can accurately estimate the cost of your cloud infrastructure by taking the following steps:
- Determine the resources your scenario requires using the UiPath® Automation Suite Install Sizing Calculator.
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Use the pricing calculator of your public cloud provider:
Refer to the following examples to help you get started with the pricing calculators.
The following table describes the multi-node HA-ready production infrastructure cost estimate for the Complete product selection in the context of the previously introduced guidelines.
The estimates do not account for the load balancers, Bastion, key vault, and backup.
|
Number of server nodes |
AWS |
Azure |
|---|---|---|
|
3 |
Automation Suite seems to have a considerable infrastructure footprint. However, when comparing it with the total amount of infrastructure needed to run production use cases of standalone UiPath® products, the costs are similar and, in some cases, even lower for Automation Suite.
To give concrete examples of infrastructure cost differences between Automation Suite and standalone products, we leveraged the pricing calculators of cloud providers where possible, along with our hardware requirements. The following table summarizes the results:
|
Automation Suite Milestone |
Product |
Monthly cost in standalone |
Monthly cost in Automation Suite |
Yearly cost in Automation Suite |
Link to estimate in Azure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Enterprise grade Orchestrator |
Orchestrator |
$2,250 |
$2,813 |
$33,756 | |
|
Coming from standalone |
Orchestrator |
$2,850 |
$3,144 |
$37,728 | |
|
Test Manager | |||||
|
Insights | |||||
|
Action Center | |||||
|
Modern basic platform |
Orchestrator |
N/A |
$3,476 |
$41,712 | |
|
Test Manager | |||||
|
Insights | |||||
|
Action Center | |||||
|
Data Service | |||||
|
Automation Hub | |||||
|
Automation Ops | |||||
|
Apps light |
Orchestrator |
N/A |
$3,476 |
$41,712 | |
|
Data Service | |||||
|
Apps | |||||
|
Modern platform with Apps |
Orchestrator |
N/A |
$3,808 |
$45,696 | |
|
Test Manager | |||||
|
Insights | |||||
|
Action Center | |||||
|
Data Service | |||||
|
Automation Hub | |||||
|
Automation Ops | |||||
|
Apps | |||||
|
Full platform + Document Understanding Starter |
Orchestrator |
N/A |
$4,139 |
$49,668 | |
|
Test Manager | |||||
|
Insights | |||||
|
Action Center | |||||
|
Data Service | |||||
|
Automation Hub | |||||
|
Automation Ops | |||||
|
Apps | |||||
|
AI Center | |||||
|
Document Understanding | |||||
|
Scale to Document Understanding for every 50k pages/day |
Extraction |
$100 |
$1,200 |
D4 VM | |
|
Classification |
$100 |
$1,200 |
D4 VM | ||
|
OCR |
$100 |
$2,400 |
NC4 VM | ||
|
Task Mining |
Task Mining on dedicated agent |
N/A |
$531 |
$6,372 |
B20Ms |
|
Process Mining |
Process Mining on dedicated agent |
N/A |
$498 |
$5,952 |
F16s v2 + SQL license |
|
Automation Suite Robots |
Automation Suite Robots on dedicated agent |
N/A |
$496 |
$5,925 |
F16s v2 |
In addition, the total costs of supporting Automation Suite are lower compared to standalone product deployments when considering the following:
- Automation Suite requires fewer staff members to maintain operation since fewer machines must be managed as compared to standalone products.
- The IT department does not require any new skills to support additional products because the Automation Suite instance management is the same regardless of which products are used. Therefore, Automation Suite required less IT staff to support the range of UiPath® products.
- The infrastructure spend does not change significantly when adding new products to the Automation Suite instance and increasing its ROI (i.e., when adding Automation Hub).
- Automation Suite also includes out-of-the-box monitoring, cluster management, as well as unified admin and end-user experiences across all products.
