Checkmk

    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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    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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    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

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    Scales really, really well
    Positive comment • 11 months ago • as an alternative to   Icinga

    Categories

    Network & Admin • Business & Commerce

    Tags

    • Business Intelligence
    • visualizing-iot-data
    • nagios
    • tcp-port-monitoring
    • linux-monitoring
    • domain-name
    • azure-monitoring
    • web-server-monitoring
    • devops-tool
    • vmware-monitoring
    • snmp-monitoring
    • ipmi-monitoring
    • aws-monitoring
    • oracle-tool
    • snmp
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    Summary

    Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Checkmk, and it has gotten 16 likes

    • Developed by tribe29
    • Open Source and Free product.
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    Checkmk was added to AlternativeTo by ikus060 on Aug 4, 2015 and this page was last updated Jan 21, 2021.

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    • ainals reviewed Checkmk
      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
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