Dear reader
We are pleased that you have found your way to Checkmk.
As a monitoring software, Checkmk offers comprehensive and specialized solutions for dealing with the very diverse environments of 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, use Checkmk to implement your requirements, as well as helping you to discover new ways of 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 copying 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 premise is that the User Guide should be helpful. And it is most helpful when you can implement our description as a solution for your own problem. Read more…
New to Checkmk?
There's a first time for everything, even with Checkmk. Since you are presented with a large number of options and functions in Checkmk, sometimes it can be difficult to find your way through the first steps.
Nevertheless, to make sure you can start your first Checkmk monitoring quickly and more 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 participate 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: The new Checkmk Cloud
Checkmk Cloud is the SaaS platform designed for hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring, empowering maintenance-free operations, effortless setup, and seamless cloud-to-edge visibility.
Highlights
Checkmk Cloud is the latest offering from Checkmk.
Focus on monitoring, not operating Checkmk.
Experience an always up-to-date Checkmk, with the latest features and security patches and much more.
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Checkmk Cloud – the highlights
Checkmk Cloud is the latest offering from Checkmk. Focus on monitoring, not operating Checkmk. Experience an always up-to-date Checkmk, with the latest features and security patches Enjoy a highly available monitoring tool right out of the box – no maintenance required Benefit from high performance and low latency, with Checkmk running in the EU or the US.
Fast time to value
Start monitoring in minutes. Enable your users to get started right away, with powerful self-service features. Streamline setup with pre-configured settings.
A secure architecture you can trust
Checkmk Cloud comes with security built-in:
- TLS encryption for data in transit and AES-256 encryption for data at rest
- Monitoring and configuration data stay in your jurisdiction in the EU or US
- ISO 27001 certified (in progress)
This manual, like the software, is in a state of continuous development. You will find articles on the current functionalities of Checkmk Cloud here.