Centreon vs. Checkmk

Centreon

Checkmk

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Centreon	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	Centreon, from the French company of the same name, is an IT infrastructure monitoring platform.	N/A
Checkmk	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	Checkmk is a solution for IT Monitoring of servers, applications, networks, cloud infrastructures (public, private, hybrid), containers, storage, databases and environment sensors. It can be deployed under all major Linux distributions or users can run it as Docker container or virtual appliance on other operating systems including Windows. The tool is available as a Raw Edition, which is open-source, and as an Enterprise Edition with a many additional enterprise features. The…	$0 up to 10 systems

Pricing

Centreon

Checkmk

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Checkmk Free Edition: $0.00
up to 10 systems
Checkmk Raw Edition: $0.00
unlimited & always free
Checkmk Enterprise Edition: starting at $600.00

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Centreon	Checkmk
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

$600 for up to 3,000 Services / around 100 hosts

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Centreon	Checkmk
Considered Both Products	Centreon TS Terry Schultz IT Consultant Chose Centreon Centreon does a good job against these products. Of courseCentreon can be free and that is what we used. So it is not quite the same the other products are more polished and support is readily available. But Centreon is still good and if you have some knowledge can work just as … Incentivized Helpful?	Checkmk Verified User Anonymous Chose Checkmk As we needed a solution for Linux servers, the Microsoft solution did not fit. Although the agent provided basic information, it crashed frequently, used excessive system resources, and was not flexible enough. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Checkmk We moved over to Checkmk from Nagios which felt like a natural evolution at the time as the raw version is based on Nagios, I vaguely not having any major issues moving over at the time. We still use the Raw version but we are planning to move to the enterprise version in the … Incentivized Helpful? DH DJ Hammett IT Manager Chose Checkmk Checkmk free version is far superior to PRTG free version. For the paid versions PRTG was more efficient and easier to use. Checkmk provides unlimited services on their free version while PRTG is limited. We like to use the free version to avoid monthly or annual costs while … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Centreon

Checkmk

Monitoring Tasks

Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
	Centreon - Ratings	Checkmk 10.0 Ratings 12% above category average
Network device monitoring	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Management Tasks

Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
	Centreon - Ratings	Checkmk 7.0 Ratings 12% below category average
Software and hardware inventory	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Reporting

Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Centreon - Ratings	Checkmk 10.0 Ratings 17% above category average
Data visualization	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	Centreon - Ratings	Checkmk 8.0 Ratings 4% above category average
Data backup and recovery	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Centreon	Checkmk
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All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Centreon	Checkmk
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Centreon	Checkmk
Likelihood to Recommend	It is a good product that is robust. They have a free version that makes the value good. If it cost money then the install and plugins would need polishing. But overall it is a good product that does what it says it does. But definitely not for beginners you do need some knowledge to set it up and get it running Incentivized TS Terry Schultz IT Consultant Read full review	As we have many different applications running on different servers, we appreciate the possibility of writing our own scripts to monitor the different processes and elements. Using scripts of our choice helps us a lot, as we have many different administrators. Thus, we are able to be prepared for upcoming outages or events. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Monitor Install Stability Incentivized TS Terry Schultz IT Consultant Read full review	Flexibility using own scripts. Observability Management Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	The install More plugins The alerting Incentivized TS Terry Schultz IT Consultant Read full review	Updates mobile interface Agent for android devices Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Very helpful software and I highly recommend to have on hand as a tool for testing, troubleshooting, and monitoring. Incentivized DH DJ Hammett IT Manager Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	After knowing the architecture it is very easy to manage the system, rolling out agents and creating new monitoring tasks. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	never contaced support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Centreon does a good job against these products. Of courseCentreon can be free and that is what we used. So it is not quite the same the other products are more polished and support is readily available. But Centreon is still good and if you have some knowledge can work just as well Incentivized TS Terry Schultz IT Consultant Read full review	We moved over to Checkmk from Nagios which felt like a natural evolution at the time as the raw version is based on Nagios, I vaguely not having any major issues moving over at the time. We still use the Raw version but we are planning to move to the enterprise version in the next 6 – 12 months as our needs expand. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	It does monitoring very well Details on issues is good Customization is great. Incentivized TS Terry Schultz IT Consultant Read full review	avoid downtime Plan updates based on usage of a VM or network switch to avoid impacting users User satisfaction increased due to less visible downtime or issues with our IT infrastructure. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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