# Is Checkmk open source?

Is Checkmk open source?

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Pinned by G2 as a common question



## Comments
### Comment 1

YES, checkmk is open source

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: deputy IT director



### Comment 2

Yes.

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Principal System Engineer



### Comment 3

most parts

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Customer Care Manager bei Comline GmbH - an IQVIA Business



### Comment 4

Raw Edition is Open Source Community.    Enterprise and Multi-Tenant editions contain code that it not Open Source

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Senior Systems & Network Engineer at EDIFICOM SA



### Comment 5

No it's not; though a lot of it is written in Python3 or bash, so the source of that is available but not published under an open source license. The source code of the core is not available.

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Linux System Administrator at digio



### Comment 6

It is available as raw edition which is open source and enterprise edition which is licensed 

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: APM ,cloud, capacity management,



### Comment 7

yes

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Sr System Engineer



### Comment 8

The Checkmk raw edition (community) is. And is very very capable btw.  It should not be underestimated vs the commercial offering.  See:  https://github.com/tribe29/checkMK


##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Sr. DevOps Engineer at Skopos Financial dba Springlight Financial




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