Checkmk 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Having an overview over your IT-infrastructure 24x7, recognizing misconfiguration/misbehaviour before it becomes a real problem (predictive monitoring). Being able to automate many tasks to save a lot of time with the configuration via API or through other configuration management systems (eg. I use puppet to keep the agent and the plugins up-to-date all the time). The possibilites to notify yourself, customers, co-workers, etc. are endless and also very flexible.

I've been using checkmk for at least 12 years and there is nothing that I couldn't deliver. It's flexibility and extended community always there for you.

Checkmk offers a whole monitoring framework that you can use to monitor like everything out there. With the help of the ~1800 check plugins and the ability to write your own checks you can monitor whatever you want. The amount of abilitys to do things like sending out notifications, configuration etc. are huge. Checkmk offers a steep learning curve and the benefits you're getting from it are great and I personally learned a lots of new things with the help of Checkmk. The insights you're getting from it are great and help to resolve problems even before they are real problems. One of the greatest things is the opensource edition (RAW Edition) of Checkmk. The ability to contribute your own code to the final product is great. I'm working with Checkmk everyday and used almost every type they're offering (CME,CEE,RAW, virt. Appliance). I'm consulting companys in monitoring projects and my company is part of the Checkmk Partner Programm. I only had good experiences with the Checkmk Team.

We are using the Checkmk Enterprise Edition to monitor our infrastructure with around 500 hosts (Linux, Windows, Cisco, Barracuda Firewalls, VMware, Surveillance cameras, Building Access Control Systems). The hosts are located in different sites in Germany and India. This year we are starting to monitor our user endpoints (Windows and Linux) too. We wanted to gain a better insight in which system run which OS version and patch level, hardware health, and which systems are offline for long periods of time. This works very well for us with Checkmk.

We are using the Checkmk Raw Edition since 1.2.something to monitor ~500 hosts (mostly Linux VMs, but some are Windows and some are actual hardware, too). Many of those run web applications which we try to monitor using active HTTP checks, too. Some specific monitoring of Docker and Kubernetes components is also used.

Here a short system overview what we do with the Enterprise Version Monitoring of about 150K services such as - SNMP devices - Server Linux / Windows / AIX - SAP - diverse applications - Tracking of deliveries (trains & ships) - Tracking of large vehicles for maintenance - Control and monitoring of the building services engineering - Automatic ticket handling in the ServiceNow - Alerts ... and a thousand other things

great product

- component based state monitoring: -- all kind of servers (real, virtual; Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, ESX, AS400...) -- all kind of network devices and appliances -- full stack - component based event monitoring - monitoring of business processes by using the Check_MK business intelligence - alarming via e-mails, ticketing tools, umbrella managers, SMS etc.

Monitoring complex heterogeneous IT environments and capacit management.