--- title: Checkmk Reviews meta\_title: 'Checkmk Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 305 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Checkmk works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.7 review\_count: 305 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Monitoring url: https://www.g2.com/categories/monitoring --- # Checkmk Reviews & Product Details Visit Website Checkmk is a full-stack monitoring and observability platform designed to provide unified visibility into hybrid IT infrastructures. With more than 2,000 built-in integrations, it offers broad coverage across networks, servers, cloud workloads, Kubernetes and applications. The platform is highly automated, featuring auto-discovery of hosts and services and rule-based configuration to reduce manual setup. It is highly scalable, capable of efficiently monitoring thousands of hosts and millions of services. A central web-based interface allows users to manage configuration, visualize data with customizable dashboards, and track system performance over time. Checkmk is available as packages for all common Linux distributions, as a virtual or physical appliance, through AWS and Azure Marketplace images, or as SaaS. Checkmk is available in four editions: Checkmk Community offers free and open source monitoring for small infrastructures. Checkmk Pro allows for monitoring at speed and scale for data center infrastructures. Checkmk Ultimate offers full-stack observability for hybrid and cloud-native infrastructures which is also available with multi-tenancy and data segregation to support security and compliance. And Checkmk Cloud for full-stack observability for hybrid and cloud-native infrastructures in a SaaS platform. Available extensions include synthetic monitoring and OpenTelemetry for application monitoring. The Checkmk Relay enables secure data collection for segmented networks using outbound-only communication, supporting fully air-gapped and zero-inbound monitoring deployments. Checkmk supports integration with ITSM tools and third-party platforms, enabling automatic ticket creation and consistent alerting. Features such as forecasting, capacity planning, and asset inventory as well as lifecycle management and auto-registration help teams manage dynamic IT environments. Monitoring capabilities: - Monitoring of hybrid infrastructures: cloud, on-premises, virtual, and container environments. - 2000+ built-in integrations networks, servers, cloud workloads, Kubernetes and applications out-of-the-box dashboards provide key metrics for AWS and Azure environments, Linux and Windows servers, and Kubernetes clusters. - Automated discovery and configuration. - Alerting with native ITSM integrations. Operational benefits: - Provides insights into system health, capacity trends, and future resource needs through built-in assessments and forecasting tools. - Reduces manual effort with auto-discovery, rule-based configuration, and centralized agent management as well as auto-registration and host lifecycle management. - Accelerates incident response time by using custom self-healing workflows via the ‘Alert Handler’. - Allows creation of tailored dashboards and views to focus on the most relevant metrics for each team. - Maintains an up-to-date inventory of hardware and software assets, enriched with live monitoring data. - Supports distributed monitoring and can handle massive amounts of data. Why choose Checkmk? - Cost Efficiency: Transparent pricing model with a strong price-performance ratio - Security: Meets stringent security requirements, including fully air-gapped deployments and zero-inbound monitoring. - Visibility: Delivers broad and deep visibility with flexible deployment options. - Scalability: Scales efficiently to support large, distributed environments with high host and service counts. - Extensibility: Supports custom plug-ins, integrations, synthetic monitoring to monitor you applications from the user’s perspective and OpenTelemetry for application monitoring. Customers include: Adobe, Cloudera, Fujitsu, Siemens, Orange, VW, HP, Zalando, Fitbit, NEC, Continental, NHL, Capgemini, Sixt, Intesa SanPaolo * * * Product Website Checkmk Seller [Checkmk](https://www.g2.com/sellers/checkmk) Discussions [Checkmk Community](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/discuss) Languages Supported German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Carolin Adams Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Checkmk. ### Checkmk Community €0.00 [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/pricing) ## Checkmk Integrations (26) What do users say about integrations? 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Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Checkmk ](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/discussions/new) ![Peter G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Peter G.") PG Peter Govaerts • Last activity over 5 years ago With 1.6, the windows agent is shipped as an msi. Before it was an exe. 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