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Checkmk

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Checkmk is a monitoring tool of servers, applications, networks, cloud, containers, storage, databases, IoT and more. Checkmk is available as Raw Edition, which is 100% pure open source, and as Enterprise Edition with a lot of additional features.

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License model

  • FreemiumOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Docker
4.7 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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Properties

  1.  Scalable

Features

  1.  Distributed Monitoring
  2.  Performance Monitoring
  3.  Server Monitoring
  4.  Uptime Monitoring
  5.  Storage Monitoring
  6.  Downtime Detection
  7.  Application Monitoring
  8.  Computer monitoring
  9.  Database Monitoring
  10.  Kubernetes Monitoring
  11.  NGINX Monitoring
  12.  Rule based
  13.  Docker Monitoring
  14.  Apache Monitoring
  15.  SLA Monitoring
  16.  Cloud Monitoring
  17.  Container monitoring
  18.  Automatic discovery
  19.  Network Mapping
  20.  IT Asset Management
  21.  SNMP Trap Support
  22.  Kubernetes
  23. Grafana icon  Grafana Integration

 Tags

  • SNMP
  • snmp-monitoring
  • ipmi-monitoring
  • aws-monitoring
  • oracle-tool
  • visualizing-iot-data
  • nagios
  • tcp-port-monitoring
  • linux-monitoring
  • Devops Tool
  • vmware-monitoring
  • domain-name
  • azure-monitoring
  • web-server-monitoring

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Checkmk information

  • Developed by

    DE flagtribe29
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $960 and $5700 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.7
  • Alternatives

    40 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  1,866 Stars
  •  502 Forks
  •  28 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 11, 2025 
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Checkmk was added to AlternativeTo by ikus060 on Aug 4, 2015 and this page was last updated Sep 22, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
NetReaper80
Sep 23, 2022
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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.

Nomis38
Mar 9, 2023

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.

Guest
Feb 15, 2022
0

Checkmk is easy to setup and operate

ainals
Nov 9, 2021
0

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

What is Checkmk?

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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