Checkmk Pricing
Choose between four Editions aimed at monitoring any kind of cloud and IT infrastructure. Fine-tune your investment to your scale and support requirements. IT monitoring has never been more flexible.
Free and open source IT monitoring for mid-sized infrastructures.
Monitor your entire IT:
- Auto-discover your IT
- Monitor out-of-the-box with 2000+ plug-ins
- Auto-detect issues
- 100% Open Source
and more
Support: Checkmk Community
April 2024 update: enhanced product plans now include unlimited support tickets, previously available as a paid option
Monitor your applications from the user's perspective. Create diverse synthetic tests covering any use case, seamlessly consolidating IT infrastructure and synthetic monitoring within the Checkmk UI. Powered by the Robot Framework.
Available for: Enterprise | Cloud | MSP
Operate Checkmk within your existing virtualization platform or in a dedicated appliance. Both come pre-configured for a fast deployment, ensuring maintenance-free operations thanks to automatic patches and updates.
Available for: Enterprise | Cloud | MSP
| Raw | Enterprise | Cloud | MSP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use cases | ||||
| Server monitoring | ||||
| Network monitoring | ||||
| Application monitoring | ||||
| Log & event monitoring | ||||
| Container monitoring | ||||
| Kubernetes monitoring | ||||
| OpenShift monitoring | ||||
| Monitor your customers' IT | ||||
| Cloud monitoring | ||||
| AWS monitoring | basic | extended | extended | |
| Azure monitoring | basic | extended | extended | |
| GCP monitoring | basic | extended | extended | |
| Built-in dashboards | ||||
| Synthetic monitoring | ||||
| Desktop & web application monitoring | ||||
| User experience testing | ||||
| Special cases | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Large variety of graphs and dashlets 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 | open source | separate license | included | included |
| Performance | ||||
| Scalability | 1,000+ hosts | 100,000+ hosts | 100,000+ hosts | 100,000+ hosts |
| CPU efficiency | medium | very high | very high | very high |
| Shortest measurement interval | 1m | <1m | <1m | <1m |
| Distributed monitoring performance | medium | very high | very high | very high |
| Long-term availability analysis | slow | very fast | 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 plugins | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Password store | ||||
| 2FA | ||||
| SAML | ||||
| Integrations | ||||
| LDAP & AD support | ||||
| Slack & Mattermost | ||||
| Opsgenie | ||||
| VictorOps | ||||
| PagerDuty | ||||
| Cisco WebEx Teams | ||||
| Prometheus | ||||
| Grafana | ||||
| MS Teams | ||||
| Jira | ||||
| Service Now | ||||
| Support | ||||
| Community support | ||||
| Pro support | ||||
| Advanced support | ||||
| MSP | ||||
| Central management of customers | ||||
| Multi-tenancy and strict data segregation | ||||
| Automatic customer reporting | ||||
| Autonomous monitoring | ||||
| Intelligent Alerting |
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 the Cloud Edition at any time. Please contact our sales team for details.
Trials of Checkmk are now easier than ever – simply download the latest build of the Checkmk Cloud Edition and start using it. This will automatically start a 30-day trial period. You can also continue using the Cloud Edition 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 Checkmk Cloud Edition includes all features of the Enterprise Edition. The best way to test the Enterprise Edition is to use the Checkmk Cloud in Trial mode. 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. You can also continue using the Cloud Edition 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 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.
Yes, you can deploy the Checkmk Cloud Edition 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.
There are two different support packages to address the needs of different users: Pro and Advanced. Check out our support page for more details.