What is Checkmk?
Checkmk is a comprehensive solution for IT Monitoring of servers, applications, networks, cloud infrastructures (public, private, hybrid), containers, storage, databases and environment sensors.
Checkmk is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Who uses Checkmk?
Companies
12 companies reportedly use Checkmk in their tech stacks, including RatePAY GmbH, Statista, and Interhyp AG.
Developers
51 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Checkmk.
Checkmk Integrations
Decisions about Checkmk
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Checkmk in their tech stack.
toby4213
I am looking for an easy to set up and use monitoring solution for my servers and network infrastructure. What are the main differences between Checkmk and Zabbix? What would you recommend and why?
Checkmk's Features
- State-based monitoring
- Log- and event-based monitoring
- Graphing and analytics
- Customizable GUI
- Reporting
- Business Intelligence
- Hardware and software inventory
- Notifications and alert handler
- Rule-based configuration, auto-discovery and agent deployment
- Scalability
- User Management with LDAP/Active Directory
- Predictive Monitoring
- Capacity Management
- Single Sign-On
- Dynamic host configuration
Checkmk Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Checkmk?
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
Nagios
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
