About Checkmk
Checkmk is an IT monitoring platform designed to provide a complete view of hybrid IT infrastructure—from data centers and public clouds to servers, networks, containers and more. It features a High Performance Core that scales to millions of services, a REST API and automated onboarding via auto-registration, and a vast library of 2,000+ vendor-maintained plug-ins. The platform emphasizes security with granular access control, encryption and 2FA, and offers built-in dashboards, time-series analysis, and business intelligence to keep IT operations and development teams informed and in control.
What Checkmk offers
- End-to-end monitoring for applications and user experience
- Auto-discovery and auto-configuration via REST API
- 2,000+ vendor-maintained plug-ins for broad data acquisition
- Centralized agent management and automated agent updates (Agent Bakery)
- Flexible, real-time dashboards and visualization
- Time-series analysis and long-term data storage
- Advanced alerting with granular rules and multiple integrations (ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, MS Teams, etc.)
- Auto-remediation and self-healing options via alert handler
- Integration with ITSM, CMDB, and external systems through rich APIs
- Cloud and on-premises support with scalable, distributed architecture
- Open source option (Raw) and commercial editions with enhanced features
What sets Checkmk apart
- Monitors everything across hybrid IT environments (cloud, data centers, containers, networks, IoT)
- Highly automated with auto-discovery, REST API, and agent management reducing manual toil
- Extremely scalable, suitable for thousands of hosts and millions of services
- Extensible with open APIs and a large ecosystem of plug-ins
- Rich, out-of-the-box dashboards and robust alerting to prevent outages
- Strong security posture, RBAC, encryption and 2FA
- Flexible deployment models (self-hosted Raw/Enterprise or Checkmk Cloud SaaS) and cloud marketplace options