Checkmk is a full-stack monitoring and observability platform designed to provide unified visibility into hybrid IT infrastructures. With more than 2,000 built-in integrations, it offers broad coverage across networks, servers, cloud workloads, Kubernetes and applications.
The platform is highly automated, featuring auto-discovery of hosts and services and rule-based configuration to reduce manual setup. It is highly scalable, capable of efficiently monitoring thousands of hosts and millions of services. A central web-based interface allows users to manage configuration, visualize data with customizable dashboards, and track system performance over time. Checkmk is available as packages for all common Linux distributions, as a virtual or physical appliance, through AWS and Azure Marketplace images, or as SaaS.
Checkmk is available in four editions: Checkmk Community offers free and open source monitoring for small infrastructures. Checkmk Pro allows for monitoring at speed and scale for data center infrastructures. Checkmk Ultimate offers full-stack observability for hybrid and cloud-native infrastructures which is also available with multi-tenancy and data segregation to support security and compliance. And Checkmk Cloud for full-stack observability for hybrid and cloud-native infrastructures in a SaaS platform. Available extensions include synthetic monitoring and OpenTelemetry for application monitoring.
The Checkmk Relay enables secure data collection for segmented networks using outbound-only communication, supporting fully air-gapped and zero-inbound monitoring deployments. Checkmk supports integration with ITSM tools and third-party platforms, enabling automatic ticket creation and consistent alerting. Features such as forecasting, capacity planning, and asset inventory as well as lifecycle management and auto-registration help teams manage dynamic IT environments.
Monitoring capabilities:
- Monitoring of hybrid infrastructures: cloud, on-premises, virtual, and container environments.
- 2000+ built-in integrations networks, servers, cloud workloads, Kubernetes and applications out-of-the-box dashboards provide key metrics for AWS and Azure environments, Linux and Windows servers, and Kubernetes clusters.
- Automated discovery and configuration.
- Alerting with native ITSM integrations.
Operational benefits:
- Provides insights into system health, capacity trends, and future resource needs through built-in assessments and forecasting tools.
- Reduces manual effort with auto-discovery, rule-based configuration, and centralized agent management as well as auto-registration and host lifecycle management.
- Accelerates incident response time by using custom self-healing workflows via the ‘Alert Handler’.
- Allows creation of tailored dashboards and views to focus on the most relevant metrics for each team.
- Maintains an up-to-date inventory of hardware and software assets, enriched with live monitoring data.
- Supports distributed monitoring and can handle massive amounts of data.
Why choose Checkmk?
- Cost Efficiency: Transparent pricing model with a strong price-performance ratio
- Security: Meets stringent security requirements, including fully air-gapped deployments and zero-inbound monitoring.
- Visibility: Delivers broad and deep visibility with flexible deployment options.
- Scalability: Scales efficiently to support large, distributed environments with high host and service counts.
- Extensibility: Supports custom plug-ins, integrations, synthetic monitoring to monitor you applications from the user’s perspective and OpenTelemetry for application monitoring.
Customers include: Adobe, Cloudera, Fujitsu, Siemens, Orange, VW, HP, Zalando, Fitbit, NEC, Continental, NHL, Capgemini, Sixt, Intesa SanPaolo
Average Rating: 4.7/5.0
Total Reviews: 295
How Do G2 Users Rate Checkmk?
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Performance Metrics: 7.3/10 (Category avg: 8.3/10)
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Root Cause Analysis (RCA): 7.8/10 (Category avg: 8.4/10)
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Real User Monitoring (RUM): 7.0/10 (Category avg: 8.3/10)
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Has the product been a good partner in doing business?: 9.0/10 (Category avg: 8.9/10)
Who Is the Company Behind Checkmk?
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Seller: Checkmk
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Company Website:
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Year Founded: 2007
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HQ Location: Munich, DE
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Twitter: @checkmk
1,755 Twitter followers
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LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
232 employees on LinkedIn®
Who Uses This Product?
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Who Uses This: IT Engineer, Systemadministrator
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Top Industries: Information Technology and Services, Computer & Network Security
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Company Size: 42% Medium, 40% Large
What Do G2 Reviewers Say About Checkmk?
AI-generated summary from verified user reviews
Pros
- Users appreciate the ease of use of Checkmk, finding it quick to deploy and well-documented.
- Users commend Checkmk for its flexibility and powerful monitoring capabilities, effectively managing diverse IT infrastructures.
- Users appreciate the comprehensive monitoring capabilities of Checkmk, enabling effective oversight of diverse IT environments.
- Users value the flexibility and customization of Checkmk, making it a powerful solution tailored to their needs.
- Users value Checkmk for its real-time monitoring capabilities, allowing efficient oversight of diverse systems and applications.
Cons
- Users find the steep learning curve challenging, making onboarding difficult for non-regular users and complicating their experience.
- Users find difficult learning due to complex customization and limited data insights in Checkmk, affecting usability.
- Users find the configuration process overly complex, especially during onboarding for new and non-regular users.
- Users find the learning difficulty steep due to complex configurations and lacking intuitive documentation for advanced features.
- Users find the complex setup of Checkmk challenging, especially for newcomers unfamiliar with the system.
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