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Great Monitoring-Tool with nearly endless posibilities
What do you like best about the product?
- Licensind Costs are cheaper than other tools
- Most parts of the code are open source and can be easily modified on file-system level to further customize or add features you eed
- REST API allows a lot of automation and integration of different tools built-in or custom extendable (like "in case of problm, create TIcket in tool *insert toolname*)
- (in my oppinion) user friendly with a great documentation
- Easy setup
- Nice additional (third party tool) Nagstamon (also available for different other monitoring tools)
- Great Community and friendly support
- Most parts of the code are open source and can be easily modified on file-system level to further customize or add features you eed
- REST API allows a lot of automation and integration of different tools built-in or custom extendable (like "in case of problm, create TIcket in tool *insert toolname*)
- (in my oppinion) user friendly with a great documentation
- Easy setup
- Nice additional (third party tool) Nagstamon (also available for different other monitoring tools)
- Great Community and friendly support
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently Checkmk does not support propper application monitoring, we need an APM tool (Instana) in addition
Events from other tools (like mentioned Instana) have only limited posibilities so send their information/events to checkmk. Yes, there is the so called "Event Console" but it only supports syslog and SNMP Trap
Events from other tools (like mentioned Instana) have only limited posibilities so send their information/events to checkmk. Yes, there is the so called "Event Console" but it only supports syslog and SNMP Trap
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In addition to "common" monitoring, Checkmk allows us to creat (graphical) dependency-Models of our Business Applications. In case of problems or even to simulate "server down" we can see with these "Business Intelligence"-Models which of our applications are affected by taking down for example a special database server
Furthermore, with the help of the REST API we were able to create a very simple website where different manager can see the overall status of our applications without the need of Checkmk login.
Furthermore, with the help of the REST API we were able to create a very simple website where different manager can see the overall status of our applications without the need of Checkmk login.
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Easy to use and very powerful
What do you like best about the product?
Its pretty easy to get into monitoring using checkmk and its powerful and customizable to match every need.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it's a bit hard to find the right ruleset due to so many options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us to decrease the amount of time of maintaining our customers servers and gives us the possibility to detect potential issues that might occur in the near future.
Happy checkmk customer :)
What do you like best about the product?
Good overview of our infrastructure. Awesome documentation. Very customizable monitoring system. Many great plugins and good community support
What do you dislike about the product?
Notting. Checkmk is the ultimate surveilance solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We identify all our issues in our infratructure before it becomes a problem
The best Infrastructure and Network monitoring solution
What do you like best about the product?
* Checkmk can be deployed and set up fast and easily
* Services and metrics are discovered automatically
* Withs its APIs, it is highly flexible and extensiable
* Services and metrics are discovered automatically
* Withs its APIs, it is highly flexible and extensiable
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much negative I can tell. Searching within the Checkmk ruleset can be quite tricky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Checkmk comes with a bunch of pre-defined Hardware, Software, Application checks it supports. All our SAP and MSSQL Database servers, Vmware ESXi hosts, Mid-range Storage Systems as well as Network devices (Switches, Firewalls, Routers, WLAN-Controllers) and Media devices (mostly monitored via SNMP) can be seamlessly monitored. Most of the services and metrics are discovered automatically. Warning / Critical thresholds are automatically set at reasonable defauts. This saves a lot of time for manual configuration.
Good Monitoring solution
What do you like best about the product?
Highly scalable monitoring solution with great community support
What do you dislike about the product?
The AD integration and the handling of certificates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides an overview of the availability of the environment
Easy to monitor host down and service alarms
What do you like best about the product?
We can monitor host down alarms when any server goes down. And along with this we can monitor server's service alarms like memory, filesystem usage and power supply status and interface status etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to install agent on servers. It is somewhat time taking process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With this CheckMK , we are able to monitor ser host down alarms and the server's service alarms
Excellent support from CheckMK team
What do you like best about the product?
CheckMK is an excellent infrastructure monitoring tool with lots of features and quite easy to use. The support from the team is really phenomanal. The support team are quick to respond to calls and prepared to get onto a meeting quite quickly if the problem cannot be addressed using logs. The team are really friendly yet professional and very eager to help even with little pointers to improve the monitoring.
What do you dislike about the product?
The ability to monitor actual application performance such as user experience and also desktop applications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The availability of hosts within the enviroment, oracle database monitoring, capacity related issues using dashboards, slow response issues, general operating system issues which infrastructure teams can use to improve availability of systems and applications. There are a lot of features we as a company need to expand the usage of CheckMK on.
Great monitoring tool with high flexibility and responsive support
What do you like best about the product?
We have been using checkmk for around 6-9 months and it has already caught issues that our previous monitoring would have missed and saved us from large downtime events. The vast number of prebuilt plugins has been impressive, I never dreamed I could get the level of information from devices like Azure, storage, backups, etc, typically items that the vendor restricts what you can gather. They have done a good job of giving you the ability to take the monitoring at default levels, or if you want to spend more time, you can get in and tweak your settings and what information is important to you at what time. I'm a tinker so I love the ability to tune checkmk and dig into the logs and plugins to understand how it works and make the monitoring a perfect fit for our organization. I have opened a few support cases and received good responses and quick resolution. We also utilized their professional services, Anastasios and the team were very helpful and I was impressed with their depth of knowledge. Really, I cannot say enough, I'm glad we discovered checkmk and that it lives up to the monitoring needs that we require.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that I don't have more time during my workday to spend time with checkmk :) In all seriousness, the only items I dislike are this way by design. There aren't any deployment options to distribute the checkmk client, so migrating to this software can take a bit of time upfront to get it deployed, but this can also be a good thing as it limits what abilities checkmk has for accessing your endpoints so there is less privileged access. Outside of that, I have enjoyed our experience and look forward to continuing to integrate checkmk in our environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our previous monitoring solution was unstable and could only do the basics of up/down and resource levels. There were still a bunch of applications and software that I needed to monitor manually which is very time-consuming (certificate/password expiration for Azure registered applications, SSL/TLS certificate expiration on servers, Citrix licensing, Microsoft 365 licensing, load balancing virtual servers as a few examples). Checkmk is making our small systems support team more efficient, it is like having another member on our team that is keeping an eye on our environment.
Amazing value, powerful and easy to setup with so much customisation available
What do you like best about the product?
- Out of the box setup is simple and provides a great base monitoring platform
- Simple rule based setup and huge amount of customisation potential
- Integration with other platforms is great
- UI is super slick and very professional and intuitive
- Value for money is outstanding
- Can monitor literally anything you can think of
- Customisation potential is incredible
- Support for Ent editions is very responsive
- Amazingly supportive community and CMK Exchange containing community built extensions
- Ability to build own custom scripts and plugins is actually quite simple
- Simple rule based setup and huge amount of customisation potential
- Integration with other platforms is great
- UI is super slick and very professional and intuitive
- Value for money is outstanding
- Can monitor literally anything you can think of
- Customisation potential is incredible
- Support for Ent editions is very responsive
- Amazingly supportive community and CMK Exchange containing community built extensions
- Ability to build own custom scripts and plugins is actually quite simple
What do you dislike about the product?
- When stuck trying to get something bespoke or custom to work (such as a custom notification or integration) support tend to push towards purchasing additional consultancy - not a big deal to be honest give the cost of the product
- Exchange is lacking a larger selection of extensions
- Exchange is lacking a larger selection of extensions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Replacing 3 different monitoring systems (Nagios, Cacti and syslog)
- Integrates with our ITSM for dynamic automated ticket logging
- Monitors our entire infrastructure
- Integrates with our ITSM for dynamic automated ticket logging
- Monitors our entire infrastructure
Complete monitoring solution
What do you like best about the product?
Massive support of hardware devices and software.
Highly customizable to fit our infrastructure.
Influxdb export of metrics.
Rock solid no stability issues.
Large community and frequently updated software stack.
Highly customizable to fit our infrastructure.
Influxdb export of metrics.
Rock solid no stability issues.
Large community and frequently updated software stack.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be complex to configure.
Some non-intuitive gui elements.
Upgrade complex and time consuming.
Some compatiblity issues on Aix platform (agents)
Flap detection could be more intelligent
Some non-intuitive gui elements.
Upgrade complex and time consuming.
Some compatiblity issues on Aix platform (agents)
Flap detection could be more intelligent
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Overview of our Business infrastructure components
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