Verified User in Retail
AR
Verified User in Retail
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Large scale infrastructure monitoring"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Checkmk?

Easy to learn, easy to teach. Managing hosts is quite straightforward, many technologies are already covered out of the box, but creating custom checks is also beginner friendly. This way we can manage lots of hosts with relative ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkmk?

Reviewing historical data for services could be more straightforward and user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PK
Peter K.
Senior System Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Improving proactive IT with CheckMK"
5/5
What do you like best about Checkmk?

Userfriendly and very flexible monitoring solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkmk?

Complexity of BI configuration and lacking intuitive documentation for Bi Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Broadcast Media
AB
Verified User in Broadcast Media
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best Montitoring Solution for Application Monitoring"
5/5
What do you like best about Checkmk?

It's open! Ou can read the code (python) and understan how the application work and write own extension very flexible and easy in every way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkmk?

At the moment the new nternal api's changes but thos is to become more stable and better in the future Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
AB
Verified User in Banking
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Swift responsiveness"
4/5
What do you like best about Checkmk?

Solid server-centric monitoring tool with good support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkmk?

Product still not fully "enterprise ready"...but work in progress Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sara Garifullina of Checkmk

Hello and thank you for your review!

We’re glad to hear that you find Checkmk helpful for your infrastructure.

If you have ideas on how we could improve the product, we’d love to hear them!

You’re very welcome to share your input in our Ideas Portal (https://ideas.checkmk.com) or take part in our UX Research (https://lists.checkmk.com/mailman3/postorius/lists/ux-research.lists.checkmk.com) — or both.

Thanks again for your feedback!

SL
Sascha L.
Systemadministrator
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Super Tool"
5/5
What do you like best about Checkmk?

Powerfull Monitoring App for Server and network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkmk?

More Network Monitoring would bei nice. For example Cisco ise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
CF
Verified User in Financial Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Checkmk - monitor what’s going on"
5/5
What do you like best about Checkmk?

Checkmk allows you to monitor almost everything - out of the box!

Comprehensive rules adjust, link and even create your working environment.

The great GUI allows easy access even if it’s not your day-to-day business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkmk?

Sometimes it’s not obvious which rules are needed to link stuff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sebastian K.
SK
Sebastian K.
Senior Information Technology Security Consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"The universal monitoring and operational safety"
5/5
What do you like best about Checkmk?

The flexibility of the application and the wide range of possibilities for use with the customer. Tekken Car, the optimal tool for ensuring operational events at the monitoring and security level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkmk?

Currently, at most minor issues with migration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
CC
Verified User in Consulting
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"One stop monitoring solution"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Checkmk?

Checkmk is a great one stop monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure. Cloud and on premise resources are monitored as well as network devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkmk?

Checkmk could be better with monitoring Microsoft Windows Servers and the services these provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sergio D.
Sysadmin
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Monitoring with checkmk is very easy and intuitive"
5/5
What do you like best about Checkmk?

The installation and updates are quite easy, even major updates are a fairly quick process. It is very easy to monitor all types of servers, whether with an agent or with SNMP, special agent, etc. There are many integrations with other tools that facilitate either the import of metrics (for example, Prometheus) or the export of metrics (for example, InfluxDB+Grafana). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkmk?

One thing I didn't like was that in version 2.2 the integration of Openshift was not included since it was only available for the cloud version. But I have seen that for 2.3 it will be available. I mention it simply so you know that we are currently on 2.2 and we cannot monitor our Openshift clusters and our client was a bit upset about it since it was announced (without nuances) that Openshift would be supported in version 2.2.

Just for custom graph, I think the graphs could be improved to be more visual like they are in Grafana and to be dynamic. For example, if you make a custom graph of the CPU of several servers, you can click on a server and it only shows its graph or click on several and it shows several. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jean T.
System administrator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great monitoring software based on nagios for the RAW edition"
5/5
What do you like best about Checkmk?

I like that the RAW edition is open source and without limitation of any kind. We have been able to deploy it at work for a fair number of hosts without problem. There is an API that allow automation which is great and an ansible collection is also available. We have used it to automate the installation of the agent and plugins on hosts to monitor, to add them to checkmk and also to update the agent after checkmk has been upgraded. The different integrations for notifications are also a good point for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Checkmk?

Sometime, there are bugs after some upgrades but they are fixed fairly quickly on the next updates. Because of the great flexibility of the software, configuring it can sometimes be cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christian Reiser of Checkmk

Thank you Jean for sharing your experience with Checkmk! We're glad to hear you're enjoying the flexibility and automation capabilities. We appreciate your understanding regarding occasional bugs, and we're committed to providing fixes. Your feedback on configuration challenges is valuable, and we'll continue to work on making it even more user-friendly with various UX initiatives. Thanks again!