Checkmk Pricing
Transparent and predictable pricing that scales with your IT estate. Pay for the value you realize, plan with certainty, and grow without limits.
Community
FREE
Forever free of charge
Benefits:
- 2000+ pre-built integrations
- Easily scalable up to ~100 hosts
- Community support
- Infrastructure Monitoring
Pro
€190
/month, billed annuallyAs low as ~€1.90/host per month
Everything in Community, plus:
- Up to 80% more resource efficient
- Advanced analytics and reporting
- Powerful automation
- Distributed monitoring
- Professional support: 8h X 5d
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Synthetic Monitoring
Ultimate
€275
/month, billed annuallyAs low as ~€2.75/host per month
Everything in Pro, plus:
- Full-stack observability
- Advanced security compliance
- Advanced cloud integrations
- Automated mass rollouts
- Professional support: 10h X 5d
- Upgrade to 24h X 5d support
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Application Monitoring
- Synthetic Monitoring
Community
Only available in higher editions
Pro
Ultimate
Synthetic Monitoring
Test your user experience proactively and catch issues before your users do.
€0
/ month, billed annually€0.00 /test
Track user experience end-to-end:
- Monitor infrastructure, applications and user experience in one platform
- Save on hundreds of hours of manual testing
- Track user flows with objective KPIs
- Monitor any web or desktop application
- Monitor black box applications outside of immediate control
Requires base subscription for Pro or Ultimate
Synthetic Monitoring
€0
/ month, billed annually€0.00 /test
Track user experience end-to-end:
- Track user flows with objective KPIs
- Proactive detection of issues before they affect users
- Monitor any interface within one integrated platform
- Monitoring of crucial interfaces outside of immediate control
Requires base subscription for Pro or Ultimate
CloudAI
With Cloud you get:
- Fully managed offering
- 99.95% availability
- End to end observability
- Advanced security with no inbound traffic
- Advanced cloud integrations
- Automated mass rollouts
- Professional support: 10h X 5 d
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Application Monitoring
Checkout the service calculator for an estimation.
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Community
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Pro
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Ultimate
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|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure monitoring | |||
| Server monitoring | |||
| Network monitoring | |||
| Log & event monitoring | |||
| Container monitoring | |||
| Kubernetes monitoring | |||
| OpenShift monitoring | |||
| Zero-maintenance remote monitoring, with Relay | |||
| Monitor your customers' IT | |||
| Application monitoring | |||
| Integrations for common enterprise applications | |||
| Native OpenTelemetry & Prometheus ingestion | |||
| Visual metric query builder | |||
| Interactive data exploration | |||
| Synthetic monitoring | |||
| Desktop & web application monitoring | |||
| User experience testing | |||
| Special cases | |||
| Cloud monitoring | |||
| AWS monitoring | basic | basic | extended |
| Azure monitoring | basic | basic | extended |
| GCP monitoring | basic | basic | extended |
| Quick Setup | |||
| Built-in dashboards | |||
| Automations | |||
| Auto-discovery of hosts and services | |||
| REST API | |||
| Automated monitoring of dynamic infrastructure | |||
| Agent management & automated agent updates | |||
| Automated remediation handler | |||
| Recurring maintenance downtimes | |||
| Host lifecycle management | |||
| Auto-registration of hosts | |||
| Dashboards & graphs | |||
| Live customizable dashboards | |||
| Time-series graphs | |||
| Efficient long-term data storage | |||
| Modular customizable graphs | |||
| Overview dashboards | |||
| Built-in dashboards | |||
| Responsive dashboards for any screen size | |||
| Share dashboards with public links | |||
| Large variety of graphs and widgets for custom dashboards | |||
| Built-in cloud dashboards | |||
| General functionality | |||
| Smart and granular alerting | |||
| Business process health monitoring | |||
| Powerful search and filter options | |||
| Tags & Labels | |||
| Hardware / Software inventory | |||
| Customizable GUI | |||
| Granular role & permission management | |||
| Unlimited user accounts | |||
| Distributed monitoring | |||
| HA support | |||
| Use in affiliated entities | included from 60k Services | included | |
| Performance | |||
| Scalability | 100+ hosts | 100,000+ hosts | 100,000+ hosts |
| CPU efficiency | medium | very high | very high |
| Shortest measurement interval | 1m | <1m | <1m |
| Distributed monitoring performance | medium | very high | very high |
| Long-term availability analysis | slow | very fast | very fast |
| Dynamic configuration | |||
| Advanced analytics | |||
| Trend predictions | |||
| Advanced forecasting/capacity planning | |||
| Reporting | |||
| Availability analysis | |||
| PDF Reports | |||
| SLA Reporting | |||
| Monitoring coverage | |||
| 2,000+ officially supported integrations | |||
| Agent-based monitoring | |||
| Agentless monitoring | |||
| Pull agents | |||
| Push agents | |||
| Deployment | |||
| Linux Distribution (RHEL / SLES / Debian / Ubuntu) | |||
| Docker | |||
| Virtual Appliance | |||
| Hardware Appliance | |||
| Marketplaces | AWS & Azure | ||
| Security | |||
| Secure agent by design | |||
| Encrypted communication | |||
| Non-root agent | |||
| Password store | |||
| 2FA | |||
| SAML | |||
| Integrations | |||
| SSO | LDAP & AD support | ||
| Slack & Mattermost | |||
| Opsgenie | |||
| Splunk On-Call | |||
| PagerDuty | |||
| Cisco WebEx Teams | |||
| Prometheus | |||
| Grafana & Grafana Cloud | |||
| MS Teams | |||
| Jira | |||
| Service Now | |||
| Support | |||
| Professional support | 8h x 5d | 10h x 5d | |
| Premium support | 24h x 5d | ||
| MSP | |||
| Central management of customers | |||
| Multi-tenancy and strict data segregation | |||
| Automatic customer reporting | |||
| Autonomous monitoring | |||
| Intelligent Alerting |
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CloudAI
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|---|---|
| Infrastructure monitoring | |
| Server monitoring | |
| Cloud monitoring | |
| Web service monitoring | |
| Network monitoring | |
| Container monitoring | |
| Kubernetes & OpenShift monitoring | |
| Zero-maintenance remote monitoring, with Relay | |
| Application monitoring | |
| Integrations for common enterprise applications | |
| Native OpenTelemetry & Prometheus ingestion | |
| Visual metric query builder | |
| Interactive data exploration | |
| Cloud monitoring | |
| AWS monitoring | extended |
| Azure monitoring | extended |
| GCP monitoring | extended |
| Cloud cost monitoring | |
| Built-in dashboards | |
| Automations | |
| Auto-discovery of hosts and services | |
| REST API | |
| Automated monitoring of dynamic infrastructure | |
| Recurring maintenance downtimes | |
| Host lifecycle management | |
| Auto-registration of hosts | |
| Dashboards & graphs | |
| Live customizable dashboards | |
| Time-series graphs | |
| Modular customizable graphs | |
| Overview dashboards | |
| Built-in dashboards | |
| Responsive dashboards for any screen size | |
| Share dashboards with public links | Large variety of graphs and widgets for custom dashboards |
| Built-in cloud dashboards | |
| AI-enabled workflows | |
| AI-powered troubleshooting | |
| Natural language explanations | |
| General functionality | |
| Smart and granular alerting | |
| Business process health monitoring | |
| Powerful search and filter options | |
| Tags & Labels | |
| Hardware / Software inventory | |
| Long-term data retention | |
| Customizable GUI | |
| User accounts | 20 |
| HA support | 99,5% uptime SLA |
| Use in affiliated entities | included |
| Interactive onboarding guide | |
| Self-service user management. | |
| Performance | |
| Scalability | 50,000 Services |
| Shortest measurement interval | <1m |
| Long-term availability analysis | very fast |
| Dynamic configuration | |
| Advanced analytics | |
| Trend predictions | |
| Advanced forecasting/capacity planning | |
| Reporting | |
| Availability analysis | |
| PDF Reports | |
| SLA Reporting | |
| Monitoring agents | |
| Central agent management | |
| Automated agent updates | |
| Push mode for data collection | |
| Pre-configured agents | |
| ~1,000 officially supported integrations | |
| Data protection | |
| Data residency | Choose between EU and US |
| ISO 27001 | |
| SOC2 type I | |
| Security | |
| Secure agent by design | |
| Encrypted communication | |
| Password store | |
| SAML | |
| Automatic updates | |
| Daily security patches | |
| Backups | |
| Integrations | |
| SSO | |
| Slack & Mattermost | |
| Opsgenie | |
| Splunk On-Call (prev. VictorOps) | |
| PagerDuty | |
| Cisco WebEx Teams | |
| Prometheus | |
| MS Teams | |
| Jira | |
| Service Now | |
| Support | |
| Community support | |
| Professional support | included |
Hosts have approximately 30 services each, on average. However, a database host or a core switch may have a much larger number of services. A service may be anything – for example, a file system, a hardware sensor, or a switch port – but it can also be a specific metric, such as CPU usage. Check out our service calculator.
We believe that services are the fairest metric to calculate pricing: a Wi-Fi access point has way fewer aspects requiring monitoring compared to a database server, thus it should also cost less!
No, our subscription model continues to be based on services, and we do not place any restrictions or impose any additional charges beyond the number of services in your subscription.
You can upgrade to Checkmk Ultimate at any time. Please contact our sales team for details.
Trials of Checkmk are now easier than ever – simply download the latest build of Checkmk Ultimate and start using it. This will automatically start a 30-day trial period.
You can also continue using Checkmk Ultimate in Free mode for as long as you want. Free mode does not require a license and is limited to 750 services and one site.
You can test Checkmk Pro by installing the Checkmk Pro trial.
The easiest way to get started with a POC is to simply install Checkmk Ultimate, 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.
Yes, you can deploy Checkmk Ultimate from the AWS and Azure cloud marketplaces and natively run your sites directly in your respective tenants. The same licensing mechanism applies to sites launched from a cloud marketplace. Our Azure and AWS marketplace listings use the ‘Bring your own license’ (BYOL) model, so you can use the same application account in sites deployed by one of these marketplaces.
Support is included in every commercial edition. Check out our support page for more details.