Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables sysadmins, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, cloud, containers and more) and act quickly to resolve them.
More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open-source users worldwide use Checkmk to ensure high availability and performance.
Key product features:
• Service state monitoring with 1,900 checks 'out of the box'
• Log and event-based monitoring
• Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage
• Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs
• Flexible notifications and automated alert handling
• Monitoring of business processes and complex systems
• Hardware and software inventory
• Graphical, rule-based configuration and automated service discovery
Broad set of unique benefits:
Ultra-scalable
• Distributed set-ups of several hundred sites or several thousand retail stores
• Millions of services in one monitoring
• Very low use of CPU resources
• Superior memory performance for live data due to RAM storage
• Highly optimized I/O performance,
• Very short measurement intervals of up to 1s
One of the shortest set-up times and lowest operations efforts in the industry
• One integrated system, fully packaged, and ready in a few minutes
• High degree of automation enables very broad monitoring scope
• Automation of agent threshold configuration, installation, and updating
• Automatic creation of configuration files
• Unique rule-based configuration to drastically reduce manual configuration
Very low Total Cost of Ownership
• Low consulting and operations cost due to fast installation and automation
• Low monitoring hardware needs due to low CPU usage
Various other benefits exists, e.g.
• Support for 5+ Server operating systems
• Many options to realize ‘High Availability’, including own appliance
• Future proof incl. monitoring of Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure
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Comments and Reviews
Checkmk has a lot of features, but sadly since version 2.0 the raw version is no longer 100% free. It's limited to 25 hosts, so it is more freemium than free. If you don't reach this limit or you are willing to pay the enterprise solution it's still the first choice.
I have the raw version installed at home and have 60 hosts without any problem. Was on 2.0 and migrated to 2.1 recently.
Checkmk is easy to setup and operate
Suitable for both basic and complex monitoring. Rule-based configuration method is not familiar to most but offers flexibility esp when adding new hosts/services. Nagios users will find it very familiar