FirstLight is the premier reseller of Checkmk monitoring software, subscriptions, and support in the US. An open source IT monitoring solution, Checkmk is supported by a huge user community. This comprehensive IT monitoring software solution is in the tradition of Nagios, and is available as Raw Edition, which is 100% pure open source. The paid Enterprise Edition includes lots of features and optional professional support.
Receive CheckMk Technical Training
Remote
Access our live, instructor lead remote training classes. Work through real examples and hands-on labs. Beginner to advanced classes available. Contact us for more details on these classes.
Onsite
Looking for onsite, structured training, using your very own Checkmk system? Have an experienced FirstLight engineer onsite to teach your teams!
Get Checkmk Custom Plugin Design
- Automatic Service-Detection
- Rule-based, hierarchial configuration
- High performance through passive checks
- More then 1200 included check-plugins and its own agents
Schedule A Demo
We’ll arrange a live demo of the software. We can discuss and show you all the various features that Checkmk Enterprise has to offer: Configuration & Check Engine, Livestatus, Multisite, WATO, Business Intelligence and more. Talk with our engineers about upgrading from OMD (raw) to Enterprise.
Core Features
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| Server monitoring |  |
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| Container & cloud monitoring | |
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| 1800+ officially supported plug-ins | |
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| Log management | |
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| Aggregate service health monitoring | |
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| Automatic service discovery | |
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| Real-time dashboards & graphs | |
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| Alerting | |
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| Hardware / software inventory | |
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| Multi-lingual user interface | |
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| Enterprise auth | |
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| Unlimited user accounts | |
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| Distributed monitoring | |
2 sites each with 10 hosts | |
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| High performance distributed monitoring | X | X | |
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| Advanced graphing | X | |
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| Automatic, dynamic host management | X | |
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| Agent management | X | |
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| Action handler | X | |
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| Recurring maintenance downtimes | X | |
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| Reporting | X | |
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| SLA reporting | X | |
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| Extension packages management | X | |
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| Cross-country, cross-company monitoring | X | X | X | |
| Advanced instance & customer management | X | X | X | |
| Unified dashboards | X | X | X | |
| Strict data segregation | X | X | X | |
| White-label solution | X | X | X | |
Performance
| Checkmk Raw | Checkmk Enterprise | |||
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| Open-Source | Free | Standard | Managed Services | |
| Monitoring kernel | Nagios | Checkmk Microcore | Checkmk Microcore | Checkmk Microcore |
| Monitoring kernel | medium | very high | very high | very high |
| Long-term availability analysis | slow | very fast | very fast | very fast |
| Shortest measurement interval | 60s | 1s | 1s | 1s |
| Scalability | 1.000+ hosts | 10 hosts | 100,000+ hosts | 100,000+ hosts |
Integrations
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Support
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| Long-term availability analysis | X | X | |
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