FirstLight is the premier reseller of Checkmk monitoring software, subscriptions, and support in the US. An open source IT monitoring solution, supported by a huge user community. This comprehensive IT monitoring software solution in the tradition of Nagios. Available as Raw Edition, which is 100% pure open source. The paid Enterprise Edition includes lots of features and optional professional support.

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Access our live, instructor lead remote training classes. Work through real examples and hands-on labs. Beginner to advanced classes available. Contact us for more details on these classes.

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Onsite

Looking for onsite, structured training, using your very own Checkmk system? Have an experienced FirstLight engineer onsite to teach your teams!

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Get CheckMK Custom Plugin Design

  • Automatic Service-Detection
  • Rule-based, hierarchial configuration
  • High performance through passive checks
  • More then 1200 included check-plugins and its own agents

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We’ll arrange a live demo of the software. We can discuss and show you all the various features that Checkmk Enterprise has to offer: Configuration & Check Engine, Livestatus, Multisite, WATO, Business Intelligence and more. Talk with our engineers about upgrading from OMD (raw) to Enterprise.

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Available In Three Different Editions

Core Features
  Checkmk Raw Checkmk Enterprise
  Open-Source Free Standard Managed Services
Server monitoring ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
SNMP Monitoring ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Container & cloud monitoring ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
1800+ officially supported plug-ins ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Log management ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Aggregate service health monitoring ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Automatic service discovery ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Real-time dashboards & graphs ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Alerting ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Hardware / software inventory ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Multi-lingual user interface ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Enterprise auth ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Unlimited user accounts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Distributed monitoring ✔ 2 sites each with 10 hosts ✔ ✔
High performance distributed monitoring X X ✔ ✔
Advanced graphing X ✔ ✔ ✔
Automatic, dynamic host management X ✔ ✔ ✔
Agent management X ✔ ✔ ✔
Action handler X ✔ ✔ ✔
Recurring maintenance downtimes X ✔ ✔ ✔
Reporting X ✔ ✔ ✔
SLA reporting X ✔ ✔ ✔
Extension packages management X ✔ ✔ ✔
Cross-country, cross-company monitoring X X X ✔
Advanced instance & customer management X X X ✔
Unified dashboards X X X ✔
Strict data segregation X X X ✔
White-label solution X X X ✔
Performance
  Checkmk Raw Checkmk Enterprise
  Open-Source Free Standard Managed Services
Monitoring kernel Nagios Checkmk Microcore Checkmk Microcore Checkmk Microcore
Monitoring kernel medium very high very high very high
Long-term availability analysis slow very fast very fast very fast
Shortest measurement interval 60s 1s 1s 1s
Scalability 1.000+ hosts 10 hosts 100,000+ hosts 100,000+ hosts
Integrations
  Checkmk Raw Checkmk Enterprise
  Open-Source Free Standard Managed Services
Monitoring kernel ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Monitoring kernel X ✔ ✔ ✔
Long-term availability analysis X ✔ ✔ ✔
Support
  Checkmk Raw Checkmk Enterprise
  Open-Source Free Standard Managed Services
Monitoring kernel ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Monitoring kernel X X ✔ ✔
Long-term availability analysis X X ✔ ✔
Shortest measurement interval X X ✔ ✔