Gain a complete view of your hybrid IT infrastructure with an award-winning monitoring platform. Checkmk is hyper-scalable, cloud-ready, cost-effective, and comes with over 2,000 always-free plugins.
Monitor everything
Monitor your entire IT infrastructure and almost any network device out-of-the-box with our leading library of more than 2,000 vendor-maintained plug-ins.
Cloud ready
Add and remove cloud hosts and services in real-time, and benefit from out-of-the-box cloud dashboards, and native support for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Extensive integrations
Native integrations with major ITOM/ITSM and popular enterprise IT tools such as Slack, MS Teams, Jira, PagerDuty, Grafana, Datadog and many others.
Highly scalable
Monitor hundreds of thousands of hosts across the globe with minimal resource consumption, thanks to a high-performance distributed architecture.
Flexible deployment
Enjoy maximum flexibility in deploying Checkmk on a native Linux server, on a VM, as a container image, or directly from AWS and Azure marketplaces.
Broad documentation
Benefit from vast resources such as the official User Guide, monitoring best practice guides, video tutorials, and the active Checkmk Forum.
Smart alerts
Configure granular alerts with a wide range of criteria, set up issue escalation rules, automatically create tickets in ITSM systems, and notify only the responsible team.
Visualize your IT
Track key metrics on out-of-the-box dashboards, for any kind of monitored objects, including cloud and Kubernetes, and customize graphs to suit specific needs.
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Frequently asked questions about the Checkmk trial
Trials of Checkmk are now easier than ever - simply download the latest build of the Checkmk Cloud Edition and start using it. The Checkmk Cloud Edition includes all features of the Enterprise Edition. Features that are exclusive to the Cloud Edition (e.g., cloud dashboards, push agent, etc.) are marked as such in the GUI, so you won’t risk testing anything that won’t be available later on.
The trial expires after 30 days, at which point your site can either be licensed as a paid subscription, or you can continue using it for free for as long as you want. In the free state, your site will be limited to 750 services and one site.
To purchase a Checkmk license, you can either purchase online or request a quote.
Windows is not a supported operating system for Checkmk server. Nevertheless, Checkmk is available as an OVA (Open Virtualization Appliance), which can be loaded and launched on your desktop hypervisor for Windows like Proxmox and VMvare vSphere. The Checkmk virtual appliance contains a pre-installed Linux operating system, firmware, and a graphical interface. The web GUI allows you to configure the operating system, the appliance, and Checkmk without needing to use the Linux command line. More information about Checkmk virtual appliance deployments steps you will find in our comprehensive installation guide.
The easiest way to get started with a POC is to simply install the Cloud Edition, create a new site and use the 30-day trial period. If you need more than 30 days to build your POC, please contact our sales team who will be able to issue a POC license.
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