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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Checkmk

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ACheckmk 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

    Geckoboard

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Geckoboard enables users to create real time dashboards using data from over 80 cloud services. It integrates with other products such as: AWeber, Basecamp, Campaign Monitor and HubSpot.

    $35

    per month

    Pricing
    CheckmkGeckoboard
    Editions & Modules
    Checkmk Free Edition
    $0.00
    up to 10 systems
    Checkmk Raw Edition
    $0.00
    unlimited & always free
    Checkmk Enterprise Edition
    starting at $600.00
    Starter
    $35
    per month
    Team
    $159
    per month
    Team Plus
    $275
    per month
    Company
    $599
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CheckmkGeckoboard
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$600 for up to 3,000 Services / around 100 hostsNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    CheckmkGeckoboard
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Geckoboard
    -
    Ratings
    Network device monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Geckoboard
    -
    Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Geckoboard
    -
    Ratings
    Data visualization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Geckoboard
    -
    Ratings
    Data backup and recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    9.3
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    7.7
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings6.12 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    9.5
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Checkmk and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Checkmk
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    25% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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    CheckmkGeckoboard
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    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CheckmkGeckoboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CheckmkGeckoboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    tribe29
    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.
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    Geckoboard
    Great value for the money. Excellent for smaller agencies with multiple projects and teams in a smaller space. We can quickly roll out mobile displays to help with a particular deployment push or monitoring a clients website engagement. It's also useful for showing live data without requiring analytics to run reports from a CRM, etc.
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    Pros
    tribe29
    • monitoring
    • alerts
    • Graphs
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    Geckoboard
    • User self-help - the video tutorials and a robust publicly accessible knowledgebase.
    • Geckoboard can aggregate data from a number of other apps into a singular dashboard.
    • Sleek, dark UI.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    tribe29
    • Layout
    • Ease of Use
    • Upgradability
    Incentivized
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    Geckoboard
    • A bit more flexibility in the number of columns would be nice.
    • Ability to scale to mobile device (web).
    • App capabilities are missing on Android.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    tribe29
    Very helpful software and I highly recommend to have on hand as a tool for testing, troubleshooting, and monitoring.
    Incentivized
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    Geckoboard
    My company did not renew due to changes in the organization.
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    Usability
    tribe29
    After knowing the architecture it is very easy to manage the system, rolling out agents and creating new monitoring tasks.
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    Geckoboard
    With a simple interface and available templates, creating basic dashboards is easy. Obviously depending on the data you want to visualize, there may be higher learning curves. That being said, they have a huge amount of integrations and extensible frameworks. If you are using anything made in the past ten years there is an API function or integration that can get it talking to the platform. As such, it's pretty easy to hit the main data points you want and get it on a cheap display in front of your team.
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    Support Rating
    tribe29
    never contaced support
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    Geckoboard
    The support levels vary based on the level of plan that you have but that's to be expected. Virtually everything except the Enterprise plan has basic chat/email support. While they are responsive they are not going to be much assistance in helping you figure out API calls or implementing 3rd party integrations. That is to be expected and the support community can pretty much get you in the right direction if you look.
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    Alternatives Considered
    tribe29
    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.
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    Geckoboard
    Domo is more robust. We do use both because Geckoboard is really easy to show the rest of our team without the need for additional licenses.
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    Return on Investment
    tribe29
    • 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
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    Geckoboard
    • While we originally used this as an internal IS tool, we eventually have expanded it to be used by nearly every department.
    • Because pricing is monthly, we can grow or decrease our usage based on our current client needs.
    • Because it is low cost and easy to deploy, we can utilize it in place of considerable resources in analytics and reporting by delivering snapshots of data without pulling reports.
    Incentivized
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    Screenshot of Create live KPI dashboards in minutes. No coding or training required.Screenshot of Easily pull in real-time data from over 80 different tools, including spreadsheets and databases, as well as popular business tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Google Analytics and many more.Screenshot of Anyone can build custom dashboards that make data and KPIs look professional and are easy for everyone on the team to understand at a glance.Screenshot of Get important numbers in front of the team or stakeholders, whether they're in the office or WFH.Screenshot of Every part of your organisation can surface metrics that matter to them and show progress towards their goals.