Dear reader
We are pleased that you have found Checkmk.
As a monitoring software, Checkmk provides comprehensive and specialized solutions for dealing with the very diverse environments within IT infrastructures. This inevitably requires a very comprehensive documentation which goes beyond the mere description of the obvious. Our User Guide will help you as much as possible to better understand Checkmk, to implement solutions for your requirements with Checkmk, as well as helping you to learn new approaches to solving problems.
To make the handling of Checkmk as easy as possible, the articles in this User Guide follow rather unusual approaches in many places. It is almost never a matter of simply following a prefabricated sequence of individual steps. Rather, it is intended to give you, the reader, a deeper understanding of a feature in Checkmk.
To briefly summarize, our most important intention is that the User Guide should be helpful. And it is most helpful when you can make use of our descriptions as blueprints for implementation and for solving problems in your own environment. Read more…
New to Checkmk?
There is a first time for everything, even with Checkmk. Since you will be exposed to a large number of options and functions, it can sometimes be difficult to determine the right steps on this journey.
Nevertheless, to make sure you can start your first Checkmk monitoring quickly and easily, we have written a Beginner's Guide. This will give you a compact step-by-step introduction to Checkmk, and it is structured in such a way that you can read it quickly from beginning to end and get started with Checkmk right away. Therefore, it is short and concise and does not dwell on unnecessary details. By the end of the Beginner's Guide you will have a functional Checkmk system.
Featured Topic: Checkmk 2.5.0
Checkmk 2.5.0 offers many improvements in usability and functionality. Here’s what you can expect in the new version of Checkmk:
- A cleaner interface: A new search function now finds search terms across all Checkmk components.
- Activate changes with improved usability: Pending changes are now displayed in the navigation bar. Clicking on them opens a slideout that overlays the currently open page. After activating the changes, you’ll return to where you were last working.
- Podman-Monitoring: Checkmk 2.5.0 can now also monitor the Podman container runtime.
- The Checkmk Relay: The Relay (Checkmk Ultimate only) also allows you to monitor devices via SNMP or a special agent that are not directly accessible from the Checkmk server.
- Revamped OpenTelemetry Monitoring: OpenTelemetry Monitoring (Checkmk Ultimate only) has undergone a major upgrade. In particular, the new metrics backend contributes to a significant performance boost.