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Centreon vs. Checkmk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Centreon
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Centreon, from the French company of the same name, is an IT infrastructure monitoring platform.N/A
Checkmk
Score 9.5 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
Pricing
CentreonCheckmk
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Checkmk Free Edition
$0.00
up to 10 systems
Checkmk Raw Edition
$0.00
unlimited & always free
Checkmk Enterprise Edition
starting at $600.00
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CentreonCheckmk
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$600 for up to 3,000 Services / around 100 hosts
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More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
CentreonCheckmk
Considered Both Products
Centreon
TS
Terry Schultz
IT Consultant
Chose Centreon
Centreon does a good job against these products. Of courseCentreon can be free and that is what we used. So it is not quite the same the other products are more polished and support is readily available. But Centreon is still good and if you have some knowledge can work just as …
Checkmk
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 …
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 …
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User Ratings
CentreonCheckmk
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CentreonCheckmk
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a good product that is robust. They have a free version that makes the value good. If it cost money then the install and plugins would need polishing. But overall it is a good product that does what it says it does. But definitely not for beginners you do need some knowledge to set it up and get it running
TS
Terry Schultz
IT Consultant
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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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
  • Monitor
  • Install
  • Stability
TS
Terry Schultz
IT Consultant
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  • monitoring
  • alerts
  • Graphs
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • The install
  • More plugins
  • The alerting
TS
Terry Schultz
IT Consultant
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  • Layout
  • Ease of Use
  • Upgradability
DH
DJ Hammett
IT Manager
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Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
Very helpful software and I highly recommend to have on hand as a tool for testing, troubleshooting, and monitoring.
DH
DJ Hammett
IT Manager
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Usability
No answers on this topic
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Centreon does a good job against these products. Of courseCentreon can be free and that is what we used. So it is not quite the same the other products are more polished and support is readily available. But Centreon is still good and if you have some knowledge can work just as well
TS
Terry Schultz
IT Consultant
Read full review
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • It does monitoring very well
  • Details on issues is good
  • Customization is great.
TS
Terry Schultz
IT Consultant
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  • 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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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