Checkmk

Checkmk Products

Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring platform designed to provide a complete view of your entire IT infrastructure. It supports a wide range of environments, including public cloud providers, data centers, servers, networks, and containers. Checkmk is engineered to help ITOps and DevOps teams maintain peak performance across their IT systems.

Key Features

Checkmk’s High Performance Core is capable of scaling up to millions of services while maintaining a small footprint. The platform offers a REST API and numerous automations, such as auto-registration of hosts, which significantly reduce manual work for IT teams. Security is a top priority for Checkmk, which includes granular access control, encryption, and two-factor authentication (2FA).

Monitoring Capabilities

With over 2,000 vendor-maintained plug-ins, Checkmk allows for automated acquisition of health statuses and metrics from various data sources. The platform is designed to be ready in minutes, automatically recognizing relevant data to monitor and displaying key metrics in ready-to-use graphs. This extensive library of plug-ins ensures that users can monitor everything that powers their business without missing critical components.

Analysis and Alerts

Checkmk provides pre-defined thresholds for alerts, offering out-of-the-box health assessment capabilities for most hosts in your IT infrastructure. Users can analyze performance using built-in time-series analyses or compare metrics across multiple graphs. Historical stats are available for forecasting future IT infrastructure requirements or determining the root cause of performance issues. The alert system is highly configurable, allowing for granular alert settings and automated escalation of issues when they are not handled promptly.

Resolution and Integration

Checkmk offers ultimate visibility through built-in and custom dashboards that pack key metrics and real-time insights. The platform supports Business Intelligence, providing a bird’s-eye view of the availability and performance of key business processes. Custom self-healing capabilities allow users to automatically trigger actions upon detection of new problems. Checkmk integrates seamlessly with third-party tools like ServiceNow and Jira, streamlining workflows by automatically creating tickets or sending notifications via email, SMS, or Slack.

About Checkmk

Checkmk is headquartered in Munich, Germany. Founded in 2007, the company has grown to employ 189 people.

Commitment to Open Source and Community

Checkmk is committed to open source principles and maintains an active community where users, partners, and developers collaborate to improve the platform. This community-driven approach ensures that Checkmk remains at the forefront of IT monitoring solutions.