Checkmk vs. Munin

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

Single window to look for hardware statistics and application monitoring. Easy to configure, and a lot of stuff is available online related to its configuration. However, the team at Munin should work on the mobile applications as well and also look for bundling professional services at a cost. That will be helpful for startups to hook to Munin instead of running across websites for the integration.

• Flexibility using own scripts.
• Observability
• Management

Incentivized

• Hardware stats.
• Application stats.
• Ease of admin.
• Simple interface.

• Updates
• mobile interface
• Agent for android devices

Incentivized

• Mobile application.
• Pre builtin modules for unix, cisco, hp devices.
• Alert Notifications over SMS and call.
• Web hook integrations with Slack, pagerduty etc.

Very helpful software and I highly recommend to have on hand as a tool for testing, troubleshooting, and monitoring.

Incentivized

After knowing the architecture it is very easy to manage the system, rolling out agents and creating new monitoring tasks.

Incentivized

never contaced support

Incentivized

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

Ease of admin and relatively easy to configure. People have been using it for decades, so the market is well aware of its functionality, and you will get answers to most of the questions or problems. Community support is also there to seek advice. In a nutshell, people are well aware, and it's stable.

• 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