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At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (41.8% of reviews)
Mid-Market (43.3% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at €2,100.00 3000 Services Per Year
Free Trial 5 Users Per Month
Checkmk
Star Rating
(292)4.7 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (41.8% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at €2,100.00 3000 Services Per Year
Free Trial is available
Browse all 6 pricing plansPagerDuty
Star Rating
(914)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (43.3% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free Trial 5 Users Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 4 pricing plansSummary
AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- Users report that PagerDuty excels in "Workload Processing" with a score of 9.8, indicating its strong capability in managing alerts and incidents efficiently, while checkmk's automation resolution score of 6.8 suggests it may struggle in this area.
- Reviewers mention that checkmk shines in "Multi-Site Monitoring" with a score of 8.4, allowing users to effectively monitor various locations, whereas PagerDuty's score in this category is lower, indicating less robust multi-site capabilities.
- G2 users highlight that PagerDuty's "Timely Alerts" feature scores an impressive 9.5, ensuring that users receive notifications promptly, while checkmk's alerting capabilities, although decent, do not match this level of responsiveness.
- Users on G2 appreciate checkmk's "Performance Monitoring" capabilities, scoring 8.6, which provides detailed insights into system performance, while PagerDuty's performance monitoring features are rated slightly lower, suggesting a potential gap in depth of analysis.
- Reviewers say that checkmk's "AI/ML Integration" is rated at 5.5, indicating a lack of advanced features in this area, while PagerDuty's strong scores in "Artificial Intelligence" and "Machine Learning" (9.7 and 9.5 respectively) suggest a more sophisticated approach to leveraging AI for incident management.
- Users report that PagerDuty's "Administration Console" is highly rated at 9.8, providing a user-friendly interface for managing incidents, while checkmk's administration features, with a score of 8.3, may not offer the same level of ease and efficiency.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Checkmk
Checkmk Enterprise
Starting at €2,100.00
3000 Services Per Year
Includes additional features, provides greater scalability and offers enterprise-grade support through the vendor or partner network. Vendor support included.
- All functionalities available in Checkmk Raw, plus:
- Monitor an unlimited number of hosts & services
- Distributed monitoring
PagerDuty
Free
Free Trial
5 Users Per Month
Start with on-call and incident response for small teams.
- 100/month international phone/SMS notifications included
- 1 On-call Schedule
- 1 Escalation Policy
Free Trial
Checkmk
Free Trial is available
PagerDuty
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.8
243
9.1
786
Ease of Use
8.1
250
8.6
793
Ease of Setup
8.5
242
8.3
419
Ease of Admin
8.2
237
8.5
408
Quality of Support
8.8
210
8.9
597
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.0
206
8.9
346
Product Direction (% positive)
9.5
242
8.4
783
Features by Category
Automation
Not enough data
9.7
49
Not enough data
9.6
49
Not enough data
9.5
47
Administration
Not enough data
9.8
49
Not enough data
9.6
49
Not enough data
9.7
49
Not enough data
9.6
48
Not enough data
9.6
47
Not enough data
9.8
47
Functionality
Not enough data
9.6
48
Not enough data
9.6
48
Not enough data
9.6
47
Agentic AI - Workload Automation
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
8.2
78
Not enough data
8.7
81
Not enough data
8.5
79
Not enough data
7.5
78
Not enough data
8.2
77
Not enough data
7.1
71
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
8.9
93
Not enough data
8.7
94
Not enough data
7.4
88
Not enough data
8.0
91
Not enough data
7.2
84
Not enough data
7.8
87
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Database Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
8.5
110
Not enough data
8.5
113
Not enough data
7.5
106
Not enough data
8.4
97
Not enough data
Monitoring - Network Monitoring
7.8
27
Not enough data
7.6
27
Not enough data
8.3
27
Not enough data
Management
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.0
102
Not enough data
7.2
94
Not enough data
Analytics - Network Monitoring
7.3
25
Not enough data
6.8
26
Not enough data
Security - Network Monitoring
8.0
27
Not enough data
7.3
25
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Network Performance - Network Monitoring
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
AI Automation - Network Monitoring
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.6
62
Not enough data
8.4
61
Not enough data
7.6
58
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
8.3
62
Not enough data
7.7
52
Not enough data
7.7
59
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analysis
7.5
57
Not enough data
8.2
62
Not enough data
7.2
59
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
9.2
149
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.5
165
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.2
157
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.8
15
Management Tools
Not enough data
9.2
153
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.1
182
Not enough data
9.0
171
|
Verified
Generative AI
Not enough data
8.0
42
Not enough data
8.1
42
Agentic AI - Incident Management
Not enough data
7.6
9
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.5
9
Not enough data
8.7
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Functionality
Not enough data
9.7
34
Not enough data
9.5
34
Not enough data
9.7
35
Issue Resolution
Not enough data
9.6
35
Not enough data
9.6
34
Not enough data
9.8
35
Management
Not enough data
9.6
36
Not enough data
9.7
36
Not enough data
9.6
36
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
8.1
136
Not enough data
8.6
136
Not enough data
7.4
132
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.9
115
Not enough data
8.2
117
Not enough data
8.7
125
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Hardware Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
8.1
65
Not enough data
8.4
66
Not enough data
7.6
61
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.4
62
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
8.1
136
Not enough data
8.6
131
Not enough data
7.6
122
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
8.4
123
Not enough data
7.9
116
Not enough data
8.3
113
Not enough data
8.5
126
Not enough data
8.3
126
Not enough data
8.2
116
Not enough data
Cloud environment support
7.5
92
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Server Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
8.5
65
Not enough data
7.3
61
Not enough data
8.3
66
Not enough data
5.7
54
Not enough data
Management
7.4
63
Not enough data
7.7
68
Not enough data
7.7
61
Not enough data
8.2
64
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
ServiceNow Apps
Not enough data
9.6
41
Not enough data
9.6
41
Agentic AI - ServiceNow Store Apps
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data Preparation
8.1
29
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.0
25
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.3
27
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.8
23
|
Verified
Not enough data
Analysis
8.2
27
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.7
25
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
28
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.3
27
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
27
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.2
24
|
Verified
Not enough data
Visualization
8.5
28
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.2
28
|
Verified
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Analysis
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.0
46
Not enough data
8.2
47
Not enough data
8.4
46
Not enough data
5.7
38
Not enough data
8.4
42
Not enough data
Response
7.9
44
Not enough data
8.3
45
Not enough data
7.8
45
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance
7.0
44
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Functionality
7.0
40
Not enough data
7.0
37
Not enough data
7.2
44
Not enough data
7.2
39
Not enough data
Alerts management
8.0
31
Not enough data
6.9
31
Not enough data
8.5
32
Not enough data
Monitoring
7.4
30
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.5
29
Not enough data
7.4
31
Not enough data
Automation
6.5
28
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Analysis
7.1
29
Not enough data
7.0
31
Not enough data
7.6
32
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Issue Resolution
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.1
27
Not enough data
Generative AI
5.6
27
8.5
28
Agentic AI - IT Alerting
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
7.4
7
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
8.1
7
Automation Support - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
8.3
7
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
8.3
6
Error Management - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
7.9
7
Customization - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Compliance and Reporting - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
8.1
7
Performance - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
8.3
7
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
8.3
6
Agentic AI - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Observability Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Features - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Checkmk and PagerDuty are categorized as IT Alerting
Unique Categories
Checkmk is categorized as Enterprise Monitoring, Server Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Hardware Monitoring, Database Monitoring, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Monitoring, Container Monitoring, Log Analysis, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and Observability Software
PagerDuty is categorized as AIOps Platforms, ServiceNow Store Apps, Incident Management, Workload Automation, and Runbook Automation
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Checkmk
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
PagerDuty
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
14.5%
Computer & Network Security
6.4%
Computer Software
6.0%
Telecommunications
4.6%
Financial Services
4.3%
Other
64.2%
Information Technology and Services
22.7%
Computer Software
21.5%
Financial Services
5.6%
Internet
5.4%
Retail
3.7%
Other
41.1%
Alternatives
Discussions
Is Checkmk open source?
8 Comments
PL
Yes.Read more
Upgrading to Enterprise / Managed Services
2 Comments
Official Response from Checkmk
Yes, you can safely upgrade from the demo to the full version any time, without losing your previous configuration setup. The demo version is identical to...Read more
Scalability
2 Comments
Official Response from Checkmk
Yes. The Checkmk Enterprise Edition has basically no limit in how many servers you can monitor and the pricing is not based on the number of servers you...Read more
What is PagerDuty used for?
2 Comments
AR
As part of the Customer Experience Team, we use it as automation for the distribution of workloads. While other departments use it as a ticketing tool for IT...Read more
How can we do better?
1 Comment
CC
Hi Subhash,
I've passed your question over to our Client Services team. They should be reaching to you via email shortly.
Read more
How much does PagerDuty cost?
1 Comment
GO
This really depends on what you need from Pagerduty and how many users need those features.Read more
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