User-friendly meets Powerful

A feature-rich, easy-to-use IT monitoring platform for environments of any size and complexity.

Automation

Automate monitoring to streamline operations

Auto-discover components, complete with pre-configured metrics and thresholds
Automatically add and remove monitoring of containers, pods, and VMs, through features such as the auto-registration of hosts and host lifecycle management
Centralize management and updating of agents with the Agent Bakery
Automate configuration and operation with the REST API
Integrate with other systems using APIs to automate almost anything

Configuration

Flexible deployment and easy configuration

Install quickly from a single, integrated installation package, without having to separately install and maintain databases and web servers
Install on various Linux distros, or deploy as an image from AWS and Azure marketplaces, or as a container image for Docker, or as virtual or physical appliances
Easily configure everything through a web interface, and scale effortlessly with rule-based 1-to-N configuration
Detect hosts and services automatically, enriched with pre-defined key metrics and thresholds
Detect hosts and services automatically, enriched with pre-defined key metrics and thresholds
Acquire data in multiple ways: via monitoring agent, via agentless monitoring via HTTP or SNMP, or through APIs
Control internal usage by setting up granular role-based access

Plug-ins

Monitor everything out-of-the-box

Collect metrics across heterogeneous infrastructures with an unparalleled library of 2,000+ regularly maintained and updated plug-ins
Benefit from additional custom plug-ins contributed by the Checkmk Community

Scalability and efficiency

Scalable and efficient distributed architecture

Scale monitoring with a performance-optimized, distributed architecture
Monitor thousands of services in a single instance, eliminating the need to maintain and synchronize multiple monitoring instances in a single data center
Scale across hundreds of sites and millions of devices
Leverage highly efficient, self-contained agents with minimal resource utilization, able to run even on the smallest servers
Store metrics in disk-space-efficient long-term storage

Hybrid IT Monitoring

Modern monitoring for hybrid IT

Monitor any kind of IT architecture in one platform: on-premises, cloud, and hybrid, as well as container environments
Monitor everything out-of-the-box thanks to 2,000+ vendor-maintained plug-ins
Cover essential cloud use cases such as compute, networking, and storage, as well as advanced cloud-native tech such as managed databases, functions, and microservices
Automatically map ephemeral hosts and workloads in dynamic cloud and microservice environments
Configure agents in push mode to push monitoring data autonomously to the Checkmk server in a cloud-based configuration or a segmented network
Identify problems in your IT with a status ("OK", "WARN", "CRIT") appended to each monitored component or system – including deeper analysis with one click
Tag your data manually or auto-discover tags and labels to ease filtering – labels offer full flexibility and tags ensure consistency

Network Flow Monitoring

Get detailed insights into your network

Analyze in-depth your network traffic with the ntopng add-on, integrating network flows into Checkmk
Benefit from network traffic dashboards
View alerts, characterized by duration, severity and alert type
Filter flows in multiple dimensions for network analysis
Detailed views for hosts: traffic, packets, ports, peers

Extensibility and customization

Easily customize or extend to suit your needs

Customize or extend the Checkmk source code, written in easy-to-read Python
Rely on our expert consultants and our partners to customize Checkmk or its plug-ins
Program your own plug-ins using the Check-API, or write local checks in any programming language
Learn from the extensive developer documentation

Dashboards ans Graphs

Visualize your data with modern, customizable dashboards

Visualize your data with modern and customizable dashboards
Get out-of-the-box dashboards showing key metrics for AWS, Azure and GCP cloud environments, Linux and Windows servers, and Kubernetes clusters
Leverage graphic maps and diagrams with live monitoring data
Analyze time-series metrics with interactive HTML5 graphs
Customize dashboards and views to your specific needs with different dashboard elements to visualize your most important metrics
Compare metrics across multiple graphs at a glance
Custom dashboards and views for users or user groups, e.g., vSphere specific views for VMware admins
Customize the side menu with snap-ins and bookmarks
Visualize your data in Grafana using the Grafana Checkmk datasource plug-in or using Checkmk's Graphite exporter for InfluxDB

Alerts

Granular alerting and convenient ITSM integrations

Notify the responsible team granularly – e.g., notify the storage admins for a failing disk – and escalate problems if they are not handled in time
Use well-documented APIs to build deep integrations with popular ITSM and messenger solutions
Automatically send notifications via email, SMS, Slack, and MS Teams
Create tickets automatically for incident handling through integrations with ITSM tools, such as ServiceNow, Jira, PagerDuty, and VictorOps
Configure additional alerts or pause alerts in specific situations, such as scheduled downtimes
Test your configured notifications with simulated events
Handle alerts centrally – even in distributed environments
Use the alert handler to automatically trigger actions upon detection of new problems – e.g., for self-healing

Combine metrics with Log data

Combine metrics and log data for root cause analysis

Monitor events from various sources, such as syslog, SNMP traps, Windows event logs, log files, and other applications
Filter and forward events, trigger scripts, or generate notifications
Collapse duplicate entries into a single event to prevent operator overload
Filter incoming messages to show only important events

Advanced Analytics and forecasting

Predict trends and resource utilization with advanced analytics

Analyze historical data to identify trends or forecast future resource consumption
Use sophisticated predictive monitoring algorithms to dynamically adapt thresholds based on historical events
Rely on capacity management that incorporates one-time or seasonal factors in its forecasts

Business Process health Monitoring

Monitor the health of key business processes

Monitor business processes by mapping application dependencies into a single overview and view the availability and performance of complex systems at a glance
Aggregate services and hosts into a single state
'Freeze’ aggregations and compare them to the live state of your infrastructure to visualize changes and receive an explanation for any resulting status changes
Review historical states to determine the root cause for degraded performance
Deliver more reliable services to customers by maintaining awareness through a completely transparent, easy-to-understand view
Support all possible setups – high availability with two or more nodes, HPC, and more – with unprecedented freedom
Simulate worst case scenarios in real time, studying the impact of failing components to determine areas of operational weakness

Hardware and software inventory

Inventory all assets in your IT

Identify and inventory all hardware and software, monitoring changes proactively
Combine inventory tables with service or other inventory table data in a unified one view
Integrate regularly updated monitoring data, such as CPU utilization or disk usage, into your CMDB view and add "dynamic" parameters to the health of your assets
Configure monitoring using existing information from a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) via Checkmk APIs

Reporting

Keep the business informed with automatically generated reports

Generate branded PDF reports with all views, either at the push of a button or at user-defined intervals
Review historical states with a single click, calculating availability in real time
Clean up available data by excluding unmonitored times, changing resolution, or ignoring short intervals
Monitor complex SLAs and get notifications to prevent violations – even if the SLA definition only includes work hours

Observability Integrations

Connect your monitoring to observability tools

Visualize your Checkmk data in Grafana / Grafana Cloud by exporting metrics and labels
Bridge the gap between DevOps and Ops teams with Prometheus integration
Import monitors and events from DataDog into Checkmk
Interface with standard, off-the-shelf Configuration Management Database (CMDB) software
Centralize metrics monitoring by combining metrics from Checkmk with other monitoring tools’ in a TSDB, such as InfluxDB

Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic monitoring for any application

Monitor anything from native Windows applications to web apps from the user’s perspective
Analyze performance, availability, and features of applications
Monitor critical user journeys to prevent friction and roadblocks
Test UIs on any browser, device, and operating system
Deploy hassle-free and automatically, thanks to the open-source tool RCC
Benefit from vast libraries to test any asset, or write your own tests to cover any special use case

Note: Some of these features are available in the commercial Checkmk Editions only

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