Helping you stay up and running from simple to the most complex environments

Languages supported: German, English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.2/10 (Expert Score) ★★★★★
Product is rated as #41 in category Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Software
Ease of use
8.8
Support
9.2
Ease of Setup
8.7

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Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases) and act quickly to resolve them.

More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily to ensure high availability and performance.

Key product features:

– Service state monitoring with 1,900+ checks ‘out of the box’
– Log and event-based monitoring
– Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage
– Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs
– Flexible notifications and automated alert handling
– Monitoring of business processes and complex systems
– Hardware and software inventory
– Graphical, rule-based configuration and automated service discovery

Broad set of unique benefits:

Ultra-scalable
– Distributed set-ups of several hundred sites or several thousand retail stores
– Millions of services in one monitoring
– Very low use of CPU resources
– Superior memory performance for live data due to RAM storage
– Highly optimized I/O performance,
– Very short measurement intervals of up to 1s

One of the shortest set-up times and lowest operations efforts in the industry
– One integrated system, fully packaged, and ready in a few minutes
– High degree of automation enables very broad monitoring scope
– Automation of agent threshold configuration, installation, and updating
– Automatic creation of configuration files
– Unique rule-based configuration to drastically reduce manual configuration

Very low Total Cost of Ownership
– Low consulting and operations cost due to fast installation and automation
– Low monitoring hardware needs due to low CPU usage

Various other benefits exists, e.g.
– Support for 5+ Server operating systems
– Many options to realize ‘High Availability’, including own appliance
– Future proof incl. monitoring of Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure

Customers include: Airbus, Bosch, Continental, Zalando, Swisscom, Deutsche Telekom, DB Schenker, The Linde Group, BT Group, Marketo, Groupon, and Hortonworks.

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Peter G.

Advanced user of checkmk
★★★★★
Monitor 5000 hosts with it in a very performant way

What do you like best?

updates are very easy to implement, intitive GUI, performance is very good, rule-based parameterisation is top

What do you dislike?

In the past the documentation was poor, but over the years it is advancinging. Today some parts are very well documented (even instruction videos) , other things poor.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Before we used nagios. Because of lack of time, we only used basic functionality : the most of all the hosts was only pinged.

Monitor more was perfectly possible but very time consuming to achieve.

By using CMK, on unix and windows hosts a lot of checks are automatically monitorred.

Before, we had a awful lot of scripts that send messages to people when a problem occured.

By changing such a script to a local check which does not send emails but send its results to Check_MK, you have one central point where you can see what is checked, who was notified when, escalate problems to other notification manners like slack, sms.

Network devices are monitorred by using snmp and this gives you.

We try to monitor as much as devices possible, not to get notifications from every device but to have a central point where you can see the impact of e.g. a network problem.

Review source: G2.com

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