Checkmk Ultimate
Full-stack monitoring for hybrid and cloud-native infrastructures—with unified visibility, advanced automation, and enterprise-grade security and compliance.
Unified visibility
Monitor anything, anywhere across your entire IT stack in a single platform.
Advanced automation
Rapid time-to-value with intelligent automation and deep actionable insights.
Secure by design
Strictly outbound, fully encrypted, and trusted by some of the world’s most demanding IT environments.
Automation at enterprise scale
Checkmk Ultimate automates your entire monitoring lifecycle, so your teams can focus on resolution.
- Instant detection and onboarding of new hosts and services.
- Automated tracking of hosts from provisioning to decommissioning.
- Automatically onboard cloud assets with zero manual intervention.
- Centrally build, sign, and mass-distribute custom agents for rapid roll-outs.
- Set up secure monitoring for segmented environments in minutes, using efficient, encrypted data transport.
- Programmable workflows for seamless integrations and orchestrations.
What you can monitor
Checkmk Ultimate puts your entire stack into one view, whether it's on-prem or in the cloud. Deploy it anywhere, monitor everything, and apply the same standards consistently.
- Monitor AWS, Azure, GCP, private clouds, Kubernetes clusters, and traditional data centers, all with customizable dashboards.
- Monitor serverless functions, microservices and other managed assets easily.
- Monitor any application with native OpenTelemetry and Prometheus integration, powered by a high-performance analytics engine.
- Gain deep insights into your end user experience across any application and interface with synthetic monitoring.
Full-stack monitoring and observability
Checkmk Ultimate unifies your application and infrastructure telemetry into a single platform for full-stack monitoring and observability.
- Monitor any application with standardized OpenTelemetry and Prometheus metrics.
- Robust analytics engine that can handle data with high cardinality and provide deep insight.
- Build custom dashboards in minutes. Slice and dice your metrics to uncover trends and pinpoint issues in the stack.
Secure by design
Fully outbound and encrypted communication that meets the world’s most stringent IT security standards.
- Role‑based access and audit trails for stronger security and compliance.
- Agents that can push data outward – no inbound ports required, with fully encrypted communications.
- A lightweight transmitter for segmented networks, enabling SNMP/API monitoring without exposing internal systems.
Multi-tenant deployment option
Built for MSPs and global enterprises with distributed IT environments and strict compliance needs.
- Oversee every customer or business unit from a single, unified console.
- Keep data, configurations, and users completely segregated with zero crossover between environments.
- Schedule and deliver custom status reports to all customers or stakeholders automatically.
Get a customized proposal for your organisation or MSP practice.
Professional and premium support
Included
Support is bundled with your Checkmk Ultimate subscription. We offer tiered response times, 10 hours a day, 5 days per week, and up to 7 support contacts.
Response Time:
- Critical (L1): ≤ 4 hours
- Significant (L2): ≤ 8 hours
- Limited (L3): Next business day
- Minimal (L4): ≤ 2 business days
Premium Support (Add-on)
For more advanced support, a premium tier can be purchased as an add-on. This includes unlimited support contacts and enhanced response times, 24 hours a day, 5 days per week.
Response Time:
- Critical (L1): ≤ 2 hours
- Significant (L2): ≤ 4 hours
- Limited (L3): ≤ 8 hours
- Minimal (L4): Next business day
For more information, please visit our support page.
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FAQ
Please contact the Checkmk sales team to upgrade your subscription to Checkmk Ultimate.
No, your subscription can either be for Checkmk Pro, or Checkmk Ultimate.
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 Licensing Credentials in sites deployed from one of these marketplaces.
Yes, Checkmk Ultimate provides great flexibility in terms of hosting-options. You can self-host in the same way as Checkmk Pro. Additionally, you can also deploy Checkmk Ultimate natively from the Azure and AWS marketplaces.
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.
The trial is a full-fledged and unlimited version of Checkmk Ultimate. You can use all features, and monitor as many services as you need. The trial is valid for 30 days.
Yes, this is possible. A (central) site can be connected to remote sites, and have Relays in parallel.
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