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AstraRunner vs DIY orchestration

You can build this yourself with a queue, an OTel collector, and a year of glue code. We did. Then we packaged it so you do not have to.

Who AstraRunner is for

If your team has one platform engineer dedicated to agent infrastructure full-time, DIY can work. Most teams cannot justify that headcount and ship faster on a managed runtime.

When to pick Rolling your own (OTel + queue)

·You have hard sovereignty requirements no SaaS can meet.
·Your agents must run inside an air-gapped network.
·You enjoy maintaining queue infra at 3am.

Feature-by-feature

Side by side

Time-to-first-team

Feature	AstraRunner	Rolling your own (OTel + queue)
Team running in < 30 min
Traces visible same-day		usually weeks
Cost dashboard same-day

Ongoing cost

Feature	AstraRunner	Rolling your own (OTel + queue)
Managed runtime
No queue / DB to operate
Compliance package		DIY
Upgrades + patches		DIY

Stop reinventing infra.

Use the runtime; spend your headcount on the agents themselves.

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