Checkmk/checkmk
Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2751
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2349 stars · 555 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Checkmk is a comprehensive IT infrastructure and application monitoring platform covering servers, networks, containers, and cloud environments with agent-based and agentless monitoring. The open-source Community edition includes the monitoring engine, web UI, and hundreds of plugins, with commercial editions adding distributed monitoring, cloud-native observability, and multi-tenancy.
Use cases
- monitor servers and network devices
- set up infrastructure monitoring for a data center
- monitor kubernetes and cloud environments
- get alerts when a host or service goes down
- monitor snmp devices like switches and ups
- self-hosted alternative to nagios or zabbix
- track cpu memory and disk usage across hosts
- monitor hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructure
When to choose
- you need scalable monitoring of physical, virtual, containerized, and cloud infrastructure from one platform
- you want thousands of out-of-the-box check plugins for hardware, network devices, and applications
- you need a mature, actively maintained open-source monitoring solution with an optional enterprise upgrade path
- you want automated host discovery, dashboards, and alerting with low resource consumption
When to avoid
- you only need lightweight metrics collection and prefer assembling your own stack with Prometheus and Grafana
- you need a fully SaaS-hosted solution without self-hosting (though Checkmk Cloud exists commercially)
- your environment is very small and a simple uptime checker would suffice
- you require a permissive license - the core is GPL-2.0 and advanced features are commercial
Facets
application · maturity stable
monitoring alerting tracing analytics plugin-system self-hosted monitoring cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code networking self-hosted python self-hosted cloud observability infrastructure-monitoring opentelemetry agent-based-monitoring snmp kubernetes-monitoring distributed-monitoring open-core devops containers linux docker web-server
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/Checkmk/checkmk · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1159329e94e5
- homepage: https://checkmk.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 908c5159bb5c
- site_page: https://checkmk.com/company/about-us · fetched 2026-08-29 · dae39a35ddb7
- site_page: https://checkmk.com/product/features/monitoring-platform · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6b5a74d4f649
- site_page: https://docs.checkmk.com/latest/en · fetched 2026-08-29 · 57bb048e6399
- site_page: https://checkmk.com/product/integrations · fetched 2026-08-29 · ef97deee046f
- site_page: https://checkmk.com/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · b4c6ca5bad9a
- site_page: https://checkmk.com/integrations · fetched 2026-08-29 · f83ac01beb01
- site_page: https://checkmk.com/werks · fetched 2026-08-29 · c15b027c562b
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Checkmk/checkmk | main | 77 |
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