Today: IT Infrastrcuture Monitoring with Checkmk
Why monitor your infrastructure?
No matter if you are running a small homelab or an enterprise datacenter: rightsizing your hardware, ensuring appropriate availability and identifying anomalies before they turn into problems is crucial. The details may vary: You may want to ensure that your multi-million dollar investment, like a database cluster, is well-utilized, while keeping reserves for peaks. Or you may be planning a similar approach to run the NAS in your homelab at the best possible performance per Watt. The same applies to software: You want to guarantee sub-second response times for web pages, but there is often no need to be faster at all costs.
Thatʼs where Checkmk comes into play: a monitoring solution for any environment, whether you're running a small home lab or managing hundreds of thousands of services in enterprise-grade infrastructure. Itʼs easy to set up and scales effortlessly to fit your needs.
For basic infrastructure monitoring, the open-source Checkmk Raw edition covers essential checks like CPU load, disk space, and certificate lifetimes – features that are just as useful in a home setup as in a data center. However, enterprise environments demand more advanced capabilities. Thatʼs where our commercial editions come in, offering better performance, automated management features, and checks for cloud services tailored for enterprises – things you might not need in a home lab but are crucial for large-scale IT operations.
With flexible licensing options and a solution built for all use cases, Checkmk ensures seamless monitoring at any scale.
The story behind Checkmk
Great things often require cooperation – whether itʼs among development teams with different roles or on a scale as vast as large international projects. The open-source community embodies this spirit, serving as the strongest driving force behind software innovation. It gives you limitless possibilities for expansion and advancement.
Checkmk was born as a check for Nagios. To this day, we remain committed to the open-source principles – Checkmk follows an open-core model, welcomes code contributions and offers a way to submit plug-ins. We actively support and promote the open-source community, recognizing the strength and innovation it fosters.
Even without contributing to Checkmk, everyone can be part of the community that embodies Checkmkʼs open-source spirit. The Checkmk Exchange is a market-place for GPL licensed add-ons with a very low entry barrier.
Get started with Checkmk!
Youʼre interested in trying Checkmk for yourself? During the Linux Days, we will be offering some Checkmk installation sessions for two to four users. Just head over to our booth and connect with our team to get more details on when and where.
Work for Checkmk!
Checkmk is hiring. We are in constant need of Python developers, frontend developers, support engineers, cloud engineers, technical writers, as well as sales and marketing staff. Your workplace can be on-site in Munich or Atlanta or remote from all across Germany or five other European Union countries. Take a look at https://checkmk.com/company/work-at-checkmk for our current job offerings.
