Checkmk
Unified IT Observability for the Hybrid World. For cloud. For on-premises.·checkmk.com
Checkmk is an IT monitoring and observability platform that provides unified visibility across servers, networks, storage, containers, Kubernetes, cloud environments, and applications. It offers automated discovery of hosts and services, over 2,000 pre-built integrations, dashboards, SLA reporting, and AI-assisted root-cause analysis. The product is available as self-hosted editions (Community, Pro, Ultimate) and as a fully managed SaaS edition (Checkmk Cloud).
What it's for
Features 19
- 2,000+ pre-built/officially supported integrations
- Agent-based and agentless monitoring
- AI-powered root cause analysis and troubleshooting
- Air-gapped deployment support
- Auto-discovery of hosts and services
- Availability and SLA reporting
- Business process / dependency health monitoring
- Centralized agent management via Agent Bakery
- Checkmk Relay for lightweight remote/zero-inbound monitoring
- Cloud monitoring for AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Customizable dashboards and time-series graphs
- Distributed monitoring at scale (100,000+ hosts)
- Kubernetes and OpenShift monitoring
- Multi-tenancy and strict data segregation
- Native OpenTelemetry and Prometheus ingestion
- REST API
- Smart and granular alerting
- SNMP monitoring
- Synthetic monitoring powered by Robot Framework
At a glance
Integrations
Complianceself-reported
Pricing
Prices are shown in EUR (a Dollar currency toggle exists on the pricing page but no USD figures are given). Pro and Ultimate list starting monthly-equivalent prices when billed annually, with final price requiring a custom quote based on monitored hosts/services. Application Observability is included only with Ultimate and Cloud subscriptions and is not sold standalone.
Free and open source edition for small infrastructures and personal projects
Easily scalable up to ~100 hosts
Contact sales for a custom quote based on monitored hosts/services
Monitored hosts scale from 100 to 1000+ hosts
Contact sales for a custom quote; scales to 100,000+ hosts with distributed monitoring
Monitored hosts scale from 100 to 1000+ hosts
Fully managed SaaS edition hosted by Checkmk on AWS, available in Frankfurt (EU) or Northern Virginia (US)
Services to monitor: 1K to 50K services; capped at 50,000 services