Checkmk vs. Opsview Monitor

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.

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OpsView is great when you need a very flexible, extensible solution for monitoring infrastructure. It's not great when you want to monitor application performance timings

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• monitoring
• alerts
• Graphs

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• Easily extensible. We write many of our own monitoring plugins for Opsview and use open source Nagios community plugins as well
• Quick to deploy. Don't need to worry about all of the dependencies that you need to with something like Nagios
• It just works. Most of the housekeeping tasks are completely automated
• Nice visualizations and dashboards

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• Layout
• Ease of Use
• Upgradability

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• pricey
• build in cloud monitoring packs need to be improved
• smb version is missing some powerfull features

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Very helpful software and I highly recommend to have on hand as a tool for testing, troubleshooting, and monitoring.

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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.

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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.

Incentivized

OpsView is easier to manage and configure than Nagios. Thanks to clear, intuitive and powerfull UI you can add thousands of check in a manner of minutes not hours. It adds user and permission management and ability to create dashboards. It has strong community support and almost all Nagios checks can be used with OpsView so you don't need to reinvent the wheel

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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.

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• helps to discover and remediate infrastructure problems quickly
• helps to present SLA diagrams for clients
• speeds up deployment proces for new solutions

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