Checkmk Reviews & Product Details

updates are very easy to implement, intitive GUI, performance is very good, rule-based parameterisation is top Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the past the documentation was poor, but over the years it is advancinging. Today some parts are very well documented (even instruction videos) , other things poor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Within our Smart Cities projects, we work with multiple components such as City Platforms, Databases, Servers, etc. All these resources can be easily monitored with Check-mk, indicating system failures to act quickly. It is based on Nagios, being even more powerful. Lets you customize notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Perhaps there are more powerful alternatives with payment tools, but within free and open software, which is an essential requirement in many of our projects, Check-mk is a very powerful tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

check_mk is a very intuitive, easy to use and easy to setup monitoring system. It scales perfect vertically and also horizontal. it provides already a huge amount of monitoring functionalities for a lot of environments and it is quite simple extensible with own functionalities. Beside state based monitoring it has also a complete solution to integrate event based monitoring. With the Business Intelligence we are able to picture our mission critical processes in monitoring and able to simulate the impact of outages to the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The design of the front-end is a bit vintage style and in our highly distributed implementation it is somewhat slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Check_MK is easy to configure but also really flexible for all kinds of special requirements. Be it notification through SMS, special hardware for which you can easily write new checks or simply generating various views to analyse problems. The developers really know what they are doing and providing quick and helpful support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The new design of their website is just plain generic. Yet another copy & paste HTML5 site, which is in my opinion a big step back compared to the old unique design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The automatic service discovery (agent and SNMP based) detects nearly all necessary checks for a host.

The web GUI makes it easy to use and the API provides automation, but still text config files are there and no database is required. Convenient for users of all experience levels.

More than 1700 builtin checks varying from basic system information to hardware vendor specific items like fans, power supplies and environment sensors.

A framework that is easily extended with plugins for the check engine and web GUI written in Python.

Customized views, dashboards, graphs, bookmarks, reports show the information that is needed.

Distributed monitoring makes it easy to monitor across the whole world or just two data centers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is realy not much I do not like about Check_MK Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Check_MK has done a really amazing job at making the information you need easily accessible and with good readability. As we have used many monitoring systems over the years, both before check_mk and after, we always value the ability to access information and understand what we are seeing. Many monitoring system that focus on the visualization of data seem to over do it and while it may be fancy it is still complicated. In the reverse of that several just don't have good simplistic visualization of date and that makes it hard to narrow down and find out what is going on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the event console that gathers snmp traps and email alarming from systems is a bit segregated from the main screens and can take time to make rules and get it all tuned and integrated into the main part of the polling based system.

Also the lack of a

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The best thing about check_mk is its ability to monitor all sorts of operating systems, appliances and applications in one central place. Combined with custom checks and performance data we are using it for monitoring as well as capacity management. The compatability to nagios and it's huge plugin repository made migration from classical nagios to check_mk very easy. We have been using check_mk for 5 years and are not planning to change that in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The menu structure is unintuitive in some cases and the Web API does not make use of HTTP response codes (You get a 200 even if the call fails). The Agent output is not encrypted by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Check_MK in just a few minutes after being installed will provide you with deep insight and visibility into your systems and applications. Auto-discovery of services is a time saving feature that gets you up and running very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to dislike really. The product delivers on its promise and is a focused IT monitoring product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- High amount of standard checks and the possibility to group them for the different requirements (Helpdesk, Application Teams, Management Views) allows a fast first time integration in new IT environments with a great level finetuning in a second step.

- We use the Availability and Performance SLA reporting.

- Granular rule based configuration and user roles let us adapt currently every aspect. We use both manual and API based configuration and information extraction to other tools.

- The upgrade and patching procedures are very comfortable and seamless for the production. The automatic agent distribution is saving much time and avoids using further tools like external packaging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The graphical views for the management reporting and customer dashboards could be bit more "fancy" (for the technical reporting there are no complaints).

- When a discovery of the components of system is running there is no progress bar (only on discovery of environments) and system looks like it is get stuck. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Very fast and easy implementation

- Incredible low costs

- Very close communication with and fast feedback from the company behind Check_MK

- Almost complete API set for all automations need for an enterprise sized infrastructure

- Highly customisable, flexible and extensible by several plugin mechanisms

- A vast set of monitors already shipped with the product

- A very secure architecture

- A limit footprint on the monitored servers and devices

- No Java, no application server needed to run the product

- Much more, you have to experience Check_MK Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To cut a long story short: to my and all of my customers opinions there is nothing to criticise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Low cost, excellent value

- Great monitoring feature set

- Broad range of monitoring plugins for a broad range of monitored systems

- Small system footprint; product is slim and performant

- Excellent scalability

- Quickly implemented

- Manufacturer support provided directly by experts

- Manufacturer is dedicated to his product

- Manufacturer is driven by what is helping his customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Some product features are not yet fully documented Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The whole Check_MK environment has a very mature, stable foundation of supported checks and performance counters. Yet it grows almost on a daily basis. Support for new systems is being implemented very often and if you are willing to request it yourself, you can have it included in the core distribution in very little time. This agility really has no match among the larger competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Web-GUI could use a facelift, but this is already in the pipeline for the next version as I hear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Check_MK gives us all we need to monitor our server landscape. It's very stable and we did not notice major problems. It comes with a lot of useful graphs displaying current and historical data. It provides a business intelligence like feature, notofications, an event console and much more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes one might lose overview as the menus are quite "crowded" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use to moniter multiple systems at once without having to leave the office. It also works on your monitor if you use it vertically. It also makes it super easy to detect outages! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The layout could use an update and change the colors a little bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My favorite part of the software is the automatic discovery. This allows us to add hundreds of servers at a time without having to manage each of them separately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI could use an update but I hear this will be in one of the next major updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

fast and easy implementation , Offers a free open source version that packs the same checks as the enterprise version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The available documentation on the website is sometimes outdated or incomplete Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy configuration, nice overviews and build in checks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI looks a little old fashioned, overall product UX needs an overhaul Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fit the projects. Getting to learn it more and utilize it in more projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need more additional training in order to ge very effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.