Checkmk Reviews & Product Details

Checkmk is now also highly automatable via REST API and Ansible. With the help of Ansible code, we are able to fully automate the deployment of new remote sites, and we perform an unattended migration from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9. This saves a lot of resources and improves the error rate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Update process requires still a lot of attention and needs good testing before deployment but that highly depends also on the amount of customizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The bit i like most about Checkmk is that it can basically connect to anything from a monitoring point of view. There are numerous agents available which can be setup easy enough. If all that fails you can use what they call Local Checks. These are checks that can simply analyze basic text or numbers at stated intervals. We use the system to analyze data values rather than any physical device on our network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We need to consider more elements for the end user that is consuming the data within Checkmk. While Checkmk is great at getting data, Data Insights are limited enough. You can have dashboard for sure but customizing Graphs is hard and requires a lot of programming knowledge. I find the features like trending basic enough. The next level is to bring more Data Analytics capability to it to try and answer the question my end users are asking. I'm finding that i'm reaching the limits of Checkmk in this regard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Checkmk excels in its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, covering everything from network devices and servers to applications and cloud services. The auto-discovery feature is a huge time-saver, and the customizable dashboards provide excellent visibility into our infrastructure's health. The scalability is also a major plus, allowing us to monitor a growing environment effectively. The check plugin ecosystem is vast, meaning we can monitor almost anything we need to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While incredibly powerful, the initial learning curve for some of the more advanced configuration options and custom check development can be a bit steep for new users. Sometimes, troubleshooting very specific or niche monitoring issues can require a deeper dive into the documentation or community forums. The UI, while functional, could benefit from some modernization in certain areas to improve the overall user experience, especially for less technical users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CHECKMK have the real time alerting function with various plug in available. It is used from the server ping alert to the database alerting function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need some tuning skill as there are plenty of alerting feature/services which need to prevent using default value. Else, ones will keep on receiving the alert but not knowing what is the alert mesage related to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is so much power and capability - choosing which to use / implement is the toughest part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation should be better as Checkmk has grown to be an established Enterprise Monitoring solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really stable, light and fully customizable on.premise monitoring tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reporting module isn't so user friendly on customization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Thanks to its API, Checkmk's functionality can easily be extended

* There are a lot of pre-shipped integrations with major applications and frameworks

* The Checkmk REST API allows integrations to all you favorite external application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not much negative I can tell. Tuning Checkmk performance, especially in a distributed setup, can be somewhat tricky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been using Checkmk for many years.

The installation itself for both the server and the agent is very simple and quick.

The default limit values set are perfectly adequate for a standard environment.

It is impossible to imagine our everyday life without Checkmk. My first step in the morning is to check the dashboard to see if there are any problems or faults.

The community is also very helpful and you can already find posts and solutions to most problems in forums.

I can only really recommend Checkmk to everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is only one negative point regarding Checkmk.

So far there is no support for ARM CPUs. However, it has already been announced that this is already being worked on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use in setup. It was probably easier for me after years of command line administration. The product is very versatile. I was blown away at being able to make my own custom dashboards. Implementation was pretty easy and again I was familiar with cli installation. I have been leaning toward Debian lately and it runs on an old server just fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are still areas that need worked on. The email integration is a little awkward since you have to go command line Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's fast and easy to deploy. I started without any training or support. The docs are very clear and it's easy to find content about it. The documentation really improved from last year with more examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's no Brazilian Portuguese support yet.

Don`t support multiple timezones Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.