# What does Checkmk do?

What does Checkmk do?

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



## Comments
### Comment 1

Checkmk is an enterprise class network monitoring tool.  It monitors hosts, services on those hosts, events, messages.  It provides queryable data and graphing.  It can use agents, snmp, abitrary remote calls to get at data.  It can even handle pushed data.  It provides fully customizable alerting with any number of backends, from email, to SMS, to Slack, to Teams, etc.  Custom plugins are easy to create allowing you to monitor very custom services.  Also supports multiple site single pane of class views to different site Checkmk instances.  So you can monitor a very large enterprise easily via the web.  Supports integrations into your local wiki or even one provided.

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



### Comment 2

Checkmk provides monitoring of servers, network devices,databases, containers,cloud(AWS & azure) and applications and we can build a single pane of glass for end to end monitoring

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




## Related Product
[Checkmk](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/reviews)

## Related Category
[Network Monitoring](https://www.g2.com/categories/network-monitoring)

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