Checkmk Editions
| Checkmk Raw | Checkmk Enterprise | Checkmk Enterprise | Checkmk Enterprise | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open-Source Free of charge, completely open-source — a comprehensive and flexible IT monitoring system. | Free Free version of our commercial product limited to two sites, each with a maximum of 10 hosts. | Standard More automation, higher dynamics, performance, scalability, and enterprise-grade support. | Managed Services Special features targeted at firms that want to offer monitoring with Checkmk as a managed service. | |||||||
| FREE | FREE | From €600 | From €1200 | |||||||
| Monitoring coverage | ||||||||||
| 1,800+ officially supported plug-ins | ||||||||||
| Agent-based monitoring | ||||||||||
| Agentless monitoring | ||||||||||
| Server monitoring | ||||||||||
| Network monitoring | ||||||||||
| Application monitoring | ||||||||||
| Multi-cloud monitoring | ||||||||||
| Dynamic container monitoring | ||||||||||
| Database monitoring | ||||||||||
| Storage monitoring | ||||||||||
| SNMP monitoring | ||||||||||
| Log & event monitoring | ||||||||||
| General functionality | ||||||||||
| Smart and granular alerting | ||||||||||
| Business process health monitoring | ||||||||||
| Powerful search and filter options | ||||||||||
| Tags & Labels | ||||||||||
| Hardware / software inventory | ||||||||||
| Customizable GUI | ||||||||||
| Granular roles & permission mgmt. | ||||||||||
| Unlimited user accounts | ||||||||||
| Distributed Monitoring | ||||||||||
| High Availability (HA) support1 | ||||||||||
| Virtual Appliance1 | ||||||||||
| Dashboarding & Graphing | ||||||||||
| Real-time dashboards | ||||||||||
| Time-series graphing | ||||||||||
| Modern, advanced time-series graphing | ||||||||||
| Efficient long-term data storage | ||||||||||
| Advanced Analytics | ||||||||||
| Trend prediction | ||||||||||
| Advanced forecasting | ||||||||||
| Reporting | ||||||||||
| Availability analysis | ||||||||||
| PDF Reports | ||||||||||
| SLA reporting | ||||||||||
| Automation | ||||||||||
| Automatic network discovery | ||||||||||
| Automatic service discovery | ||||||||||
| Powerful APIs | ||||||||||
| Automated monitoring for dynamic ephemeral infrastructures | ||||||||||
| Agent mgmt. & automated agent upates | ||||||||||
| Automatic remediation handler | ||||||||||
| Recurring maintenance downtimes | ||||||||||
| Extension packages management | ||||||||||
| Managed Services Features | ||||||||||
| Multi-customer management | ||||||||||
| Multi-customer dashboards | ||||||||||
| Multi-customer data segregation | ||||||||||
| White-label solution | ||||||||||
| Performance | ||||||||||
| Monitoring kernel | Nagios | Checkmk Microcore | Checkmk Microcore | Checkmk Microcore | ||||||
| Scalability | 1,000+ hosts | 2 * 10 hosts | 100,000+ hosts | 100,000+ hosts | ||||||
| CPU efficiency | medium | very high | very high | very high | ||||||
| Shortest measurement interval | 60s | 1s | 1s | 1s | ||||||
| Distributed monitoring performance | medium | very high | very high | very high | ||||||
| Long-term availability analysis | slow | very fast | very fast | very fast | ||||||
| Integrations | ||||||||||
| LDAP & AD support | ||||||||||
| Slack & Mattermost | ||||||||||
| Opsgenie | ||||||||||
| VictorOps | ||||||||||
| PagerDuty | ||||||||||
| Prometheus | ||||||||||
| Prometheus for dynamic infrastructure | ||||||||||
| Grafana | ||||||||||
| Jira | ||||||||||
| ServiceNow | ||||||||||
| i-doit2 | ||||||||||
| Security | ||||||||||
| Secure agent by design | ||||||||||
| Encrypted communication | ||||||||||
| Password store | ||||||||||
| Support | ||||||||||
| Community support | ||||||||||
| Email support3 | ||||||||||
| Support portal3 | ||||||||||
| SLA response time3 | ||||||||||
| FREE | FREE | From €600 | From €1,200 | |||||||
1) Requires a virtual appliance subscription or the Checkmk physical appliances.
2) Requires the i-doit add-on
3) Support is sold separately as an add-on to your chosen software subscription.