An excellent European and open-source monitoring solution.
January 07, 2025

An excellent European and open-source monitoring solution.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Checkmk

We currently use Checkmk to monitor all our IT infrastructure from vmware cluster and vms to our network switches and firewall. We use both Windows and Linux in our organization, the Checkmk agent is excellent in both environments. Checkmk allows us to avoid unexpected issues and downtime due to its in-depth monitoring of services. Also, the graphs and data are an excellent tool for management to show downtime and stats.

Pros

  • monitoring
  • alerts
  • Graphs

Cons

  • Updates
  • mobile interface
  • Agent for android devices
  • 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.
Overall Checkmk is a great product that is made and ran by a European company that is open source and highly customizable, great support if needed. On prem support is a must for our organization which Checkmk supports. Our organization has been using Checkmk for over 5 years now Performance of the software runs excellent on its own Linux server, for any company with a good Linux admin, you can have a lot of un tweaking and creating custom checks for every aspect of your environment.
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.

Do you think Checkmk delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Checkmk's feature set?

Yes

Did Checkmk live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Checkmk go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Checkmk again?

Yes

In our organization which is a mash up of different hardware, software it was important to use an independent tool that wasn’t linked to one manufacturer incase a piece of hardware was dropped from support for example, we also value open-source software highly in our field. It’s important to in our IT environment to be able to customize and tweak software that we run. We don’t use the cloud monitoring aspect so Cannot comment on that side of the software.

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