Cacti vs Checkmk: What are the differences?

What is Cacti? Cacti stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box.

What is Checkmk? A tool for Infrastructure & Application Monitoring. It is a software developed for IT Infrastructure monitoring. It is used for the monitoring of servers, applications, networks, cloud infrastructures, containers, storage, databases and environment sensors.

Cacti and Checkmk belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Cacti are:

• Unlimited number of graph items can be defined for each graph optionally utilizing CDEFs or data sources from within cacti.
• Automatic grouping of GPRINT graph items to AREA, STACK, and LINE[1-3] to allow for quick re-sequencing of graph items.
• Auto-Padding support to make sure graph legend text lines up.

On the other hand, Checkmk provides the following key features:

• State-based monitoring
• Log- and event-based monitoring
• Graphing and analytics