Infrastructure monitoring for servers, networks, cloud and containers with automatic service discovery; the base edition is open source and paid editions add more.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Open source
- Yes (GPL-2.0)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2008
- Status
- Active
- Website
- checkmk.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Server and infrastructure monitoring checklist
10 of 10 confirmed in Checkmk's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Infrastructure.
- Host agent Yes
- Agentless checks Yes
- Windows hosts Yes
- Auto-discovery Yes
- Process and service checks Yes
- Log collection Yes
- Containers Yes
- Alerting with notifications Yes
- Dashboards Yes
- Plugins or integrations Yes
Checked against: checkmk.com, checkmk.com (2)
Network monitoring checklist
7 of 10 confirmed in Checkmk's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Network.
- SNMP polling Yes
- Flow analysis Not confirmed
- Device discovery Yes
- Topology maps Yes
- Latency and path Not confirmed
- Bandwidth graphs Yes
- Syslog and traps Yes
- Configuration backup Not confirmed
- Alerting Yes
- Wireless Yes
Checked against: checkmk.com, checkmk.com (2), checkmk.com (3)
Kubernetes and container monitoring checklist
4 of 10 confirmed in Checkmk's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Kubernetes.
- Cluster, node and pod metrics Yes
- Kubernetes events Not confirmed
- Pod logs Not confirmed
- Cluster view Yes
- Requests and limits advice Not confirmed
- Change timeline Not confirmed
- Network visibility Not confirmed
- Alerting Yes
- Multi-cluster Yes
- Runs in your cluster Not confirmed
Collectors run in-cluster via Helm but the Checkmk server runs separately; K8s events, container logs and change tracking not covered by the Kubernetes guide. Map = built-in cluster/namespace/workload dashboards.
Checked against: docs.checkmk.com, checkmk.com
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