Checkmk vs. Prometheus

Checkmk

Prometheus

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Prometheus	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.	N/A

Pricing

Checkmk

Prometheus

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

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Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

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

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Checkmk	Prometheus
Considered Both Products	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?	Prometheus Verified User Anonymous Chose Prometheus It is easier to setup, but learning curve is quite moderately steep. Prometheus is a best-in-class tool for engineers and SREs in cloud-native environments. When extended with tools like Thanos or Cortex, it can rival commercial platforms in scale and capability—but requires … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Prometheus As I mentioned earlier, Prometheus had an added advantage that we were able to monitor CPU, RAM, Disk Space, process monitoring which other tools did not provide us Some tools were obsolete, and other were costly when we wanted this good feature , only Prometheus delivered on … Incentivized Helpful? Animesh Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff Chose Prometheus We considered TICK stack as an alternative to our Prometheus/Grafana setup that we have for capturing, storing and visualizing the time series data. But it seemed more complicated to learn and required a separate DB called InfluxDB to be setup. So, after all these considerations, … Incentivized Helpful? Abhishek Nandi Sr. Engineer Chose Prometheus The software is very lightweight and can be hosted with minimal resource usage. Many exporters exist for various software. Prometheus has a powerful and flexible query language (PromQL) that allows analyzing your data easy. I use this software with its various exporters, … Incentivized Helpful? YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Chose Prometheus Highly customized pricing plans to choose from. Lower pricing for the same features compared to competitors. Easy to reach the support team, which provided detailed documentation and helped set up the Prometheus. Monitoring metrics gets very easy after the integration with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Prometheus Since Prometheus is free to use and provides all the features we required we went with Prometheus if any feature is missing then we can consider other paid solutions like data dog. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Prometheus It was easy to implement in our enviroment compared to the other products which has a lot of challenges in the POC period it self. We have been looking for a quick solution as it was implemented during COVID, hence we were trying to take advantage of this software to see how it … Incentivized Helpful? Fernando Roque Statistical Analyst Chose Prometheus Prometheus was built to monitor CLOUD infrastructure. InfluxDB also has a good design to monitor time series but does not have a design for these demands. InfluxDB would need customization to integrate with Grafana and other third-party solutions. A disadvantage of InfluxDB is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Prometheus Both were present in the toolset. Splunk Enterprise was used in more of the log observability tool than the monitoring of the service. Prometheus was used mainly on the server and services monitoring and alerting capability used to have a stable production environment. … Incentivized Helpful? VR Vishal Ranjan Senior Storage Administrator Chose Prometheus Out of all the products that we did POC, Prometheus was the easiest to integrate the tool with our storage grid on which some of our most business-critical application workflows run. Prometheus was not only able to solve the monitoring problem but also provided a variety of … Incentivized Helpful? LAura Birt Information Technology Manager Chose Prometheus The installation of Nagios core is quite difficult and the whole system seems us like a huge headache for us the entire team is not much happy with Nagios core so we take the decision and switch to Prometheus and were really happy with our decision and satisfied. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Prometheus We used Grafana and Prometheus to take advantage of both tools' features (ex. alerting, and visualization with Grafana). Incentivized Helpful? Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer Chose Prometheus prometheus brings the power of real-time graphs to the land of open source ( reference included ). It's lightweight and doesn't seem overkill if you're a startup company and do not have a heavy traffic load. Great for starting out on small to mid-scale. as traffic rises, you … Incentivized Helpful? Shivang Kar Lead Product Engineer Chose Prometheus The reason Prometheus stands tall against its competitions is because it is generic. Hence, it can be used to monitor all kinds of services, be it Database, Servers etc. Whereas CloudWatch only monitors over AWS services. Another reason is its huge availability of integrations … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Li System Integration And Test Engineer Chose Prometheus Prometheus is great for quantifiable metrics. Loki is intended for log aggregation. Depending on project a different combination of data source types may be needed. However, quantifiable metrics are predominantly supported by Prometheus. Other data sources like elastic search … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Prometheus Prometheus is better as a monitoring tool than graphite as graphite is a passive time series database with a query language. Prometheus has a rich data model by capturing metadata with labels which allows for easy filtering and querying. For a clustered solution, graphite maybe … Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Chose Prometheus Prometheus is cheaper, and you can quickly set it up compared to others. It is integrated with most of the open-source monitoring and alerting tools and can help small companies in having a cost-effective solution early in their stage. Incentivized Helpful? Luke Villareal Owner \| Co-Founder Chose Prometheus I tested out this solution and vetted out a few other solutions as well and ultimately ended up going with Prometheus due to a few specific reasons. Prometheus has a freemium option that allows a company to maintain cash flow while not sacrificing the quality of the product. It … Incentivized Helpful? Asad Khan Technical CARE Specialist Chose Prometheus Prometheus is best suited for Kubernetes metrics as compared to Zabbix. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Prometheus Prometheus is similar to some of its competitors but delivers with regards to metrics; being used internally by Google and other cloud-native companies like ours gives us the confidence that the alerting industry stakeholders view it as a long-term solution that the community … Incentivized Helpful? Mehmet Fatih Onal Technical Architect Chose Prometheus AppDynamics, Dynatrace and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Prometheus We evaluated Datadog and New Relic but cost-wise, these 2 are very expensive. Prometheus does require more leg work to match the feature sets but other than time, the cost is free. Pairing with Grafana, Prometheus can pretty much match features with the big players and still … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Prometheus If you combine Prometheus with Grafana, what you get is just amazing. it is basically the best ecosystem that I have seen. Grafana just makes those fancy "iron man" kind of dashboards and it just looks so appealing to your eyes. I have implemented NAGIOS core earlier for … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Checkmk

Prometheus

Monitoring Tasks

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

Management Tasks

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

Reporting

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

Security

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

Best Alternatives
	Checkmk	Prometheus
Small Businesses	Amazon CloudWatch Score 7.8 out of 10	InfluxDB Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 10.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Enterprises	ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 10.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
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User Ratings
	Checkmk	Prometheus
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	5.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Checkmk	Prometheus
Likelihood to Recommend	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	This program works from the roots of the problem and creates a professional matrix for each of its users. This will give them more skills and resources to carry out tasks and reduce the difficulties of operating each of the processes of my work, as well as being An ally for the manipulation and operability of all your master data; Prometheus is very easy to recommend since it is a program that fulfills its mission. Incentivized Mauricio Lozada System Engineer Read full review
Pros	Flexibility using own scripts. Observability Management Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Looking at metrics such as the aggregate number of HTTP requests served. Understanding how our services are performing in aggregate. Easy to deploy within a variety of architectures/environments. Open source so new features are added regularly and bugs are fixed in a timely manner. Free so there are no licensing restrictions. Endorsed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Updates mobile interface Agent for android devices Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Customer Service: since this is an open-source tool, customer service is not that great. Generally, you get all answers to your problems in online forums, but in case you got stuck, nobody will assist you in a channelised manner. You will have to find the way out on your own, and it may become frustrating at times. More metrics for dashboards shall be added per the application being monitored. Standards metrics will work in most cases but may not in specific applications. Therefore, customised metrics shall be created for some of the industry-standard niche applications. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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	No answers on this topic
Usability	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	It is usable and one can learn if few people in the team are already using it. It can be difficult to understand at the beginning because of non intuitive UI and syntax of the rules. So, I've gone for 7 points as there is some room for improvement in user interface and rules syntax. Incentivized Animesh Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff Read full review
Support Rating	never contaced support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Never had to reach out to them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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	Highly customized pricing plans to choose from. Lower pricing for the same features compared to competitors. Easy to reach the support team, which provided detailed documentation and helped set up the Prometheus. Monitoring metrics gets very easy after the integration with Grafana. It also has a sophisticated alert setting mechanism to ensure we don't miss anything critical. Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	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	We are still working on the ROI The ROI mentioned during the purchase has not been achieved, however this could be due to lack of data from our side. 2 years of implementation is too early to calculate and confirm the ROI. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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