# Enterprise-ready alternative to Checkmk

OpManager scales easy, deploys in minutes, and leverages AI-driven monitoring to keep enterprise networks running round the clock!

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## Why choose OpManager as your Checkmk alternative?

### Deploy in minutes

Install, deploy, and start monitoring your network in minutes across Windows and Linux environments.

### Leverage ML-driven insights

OpManager's machine learning engine ingests monitored data and predicts all monitored metrics across all devices always

### Automate incident response

OpManager's automation features help you detect, escalate, respond, and manage incidents automatically

### Scale up without concerns

Manage large enterprise networks and networks distributed over multiple sites seamlessly by deploying probe servers

### Reduce IT spend

OpManager costs nearly half of Checkmk's enterprise pricing while offering a broader set of features

### Unify network management

Monitor and manage configs, bandwidth, applications, firewall poliicies, compliance, and IP addresses from a single console

## Affordable and flexible pricing plans: Cost effective alternative to Checkmk

Although Checkmk has a free-to-use open-source version, you need to license their enterprise edition to enjoy most of the advanced features and product support. OpManager delivers better ROI and functionalities at close to 50% lesser prices!

| Number of devices/hosts | OpManager | OpManager | Checkmk |
|---|---|---|---|
|  | One-time price (Perpetual license) | Yearly price (Subscription license) | Yearly price (Subscription license) |
| 100 | $2,845 | $1,145 | $2,464 |
| 250 | $6,595 | $2,645 | $4,155 |
| 500 | $9,595 | $3,845 | $7,041 |
| 1000 | $14,995 | $5,995 | $11,613 |

## OpManager vs Checkmk: a head-to-head comparison

OpManager provides visibility into the network, server, and storage systems and uses AI-powered monitoring and automated workflows to improve service quality and incident response. This is not limited to the network and infrastructure layers, IT teams can also leverage OpManager's in-product add-ons to gain full-stack observability and unify IT management from a single console.

| Functionality | OpManager | Checkmk |
|---|---|---|
| Templates for automated device classfication | 11,000+ | 2,000+ |
| Network & IT infrastructure monitoring | Agentless/agent-based | Relies on agents for advanced monitoring |
| Automated IT incident response | Script-less | Script-based |
| Network configuration management | In-product add-on | Not available |
| Compliance monitoring | In-product add-on | Not available |
| Firewall rule & log analysis | In-product add-on | Not available |
| Network traffic & flow analysis | In-product add-on | Third party add-on |
| IPAM & switch port management | In-product add-on | Not available |

## Feature-rich alternative to Checkmk

### Monitor

#### Holistic IT infrastructure management

![IT infrastructure monitoring dashboards](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/purchase-db1.png)

##### Network

Monitor network devices, interfaces, and traffic across the LAN, WAN, wireless, virtual, and storage networks.

##### Server & virtualization

Monitor physical and virtual servers across your infrastructure with dedicated performance metrics. Track active processes, services, free space, files, folders, and URLs.

##### Storage

Monitor RAIDs, tape libraries and FC switch devices used in your storage area networks with in-depth insights into metrics like disk space, LUN space, Input and Output operations.

### Manage

#### Unified IT management

![IT management](https://www.manageengine.com/it-operations-management/images/OPMPlus-dashboard-IP-compliance-overview.png)

##### Network configurations

Schedule backups, track config changes, set baselines, review config changes and perform quick rollbacks for your network devices to ensure business continuity.

##### Firewall policies

Manage network access by monitoring and optimizing firewall policies. Get insights into firewall rules, anomalies, fine-tune rules, and review rule impact.

##### IP addresses & switch ports

Manage IP subnets and addresses across your organization. Review IP address allocation, review IP conflicts, monitor DHCP servers, and map switch-ports.

### Automate

#### IT process automation

![automation](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/workflow-storage.png)

##### Discovery & classification

OpManager automatically discovers and classifies your devices and auto-curates performance monitors for them.

##### Fault identification

Fine-tune alarms and alarm management to enrich fault identification. OpManager sets alarms, escalates, correlates, and notifies alarms automatically based on pre-set rules and criteria.

##### Incident response

Initiate incident response by automatically raising tickets on your helpdesk tools or by notifying group chats using seamless integrations.

##### Fault remediation

Execute multi-step, outcome-based, code-free automation workflows to automate troubleshooting and fault remediation.

### Predict

#### AI/ML driven monitoring

![Authentication](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/webp/forecast-cpu.webp)

##### Adaptive thresholds

Predict, calculate, set, and update multi-level alarm thresholds with an in-built adaptive ML engine. Minimize alarm floods and improve anomaly detection.

##### Network performance forecasts

Leverage ML driven data analytics to forecast monitored performance metrics. Predict performance metrics hours, days, and weeks into the future.

##### Forecast capacity reports

Perform informed capacity planning by tracking the number of days left till critical system resources like CPU, memory, or disk space runs out.

### Visualize

#### Mapping and visualization

![Traffic and bandwidth analysis](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/solarwinds-alternative/observability-2.webp)

##### Service delivery architectures

Map service-delivery from the device level to the application level. Troubleshoot service outages by narrowing down whether the fault originated in app, database, server, network, or infrastructure level.

##### Distributed sites

Leverage integrations with Google and Zoho maps to track your distributed infrastructure from an interactive global map.

##### Datacenters

Create rack views of servers and add the racks to a 3D or 2D representation of your datacenter floors.

##### Business logic

Drag and drop devices to a customizable interface to map business critical devices, data flow, and distributed sites.

## 5 Reasons why IT teams choose OpManager as a Checkmk alternative

![Why Choose OPM over PRTG](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/prtg-alternative/why-choose.svg)

- **Easy-to-use:** Intuitive and user-friendly interface simplifies deployment and monitoring
- **Scalable:** Seamless scalability, with dedicated documentation and support to serve enterprise monitoring needs
- **Secure:** Compliant with top industry standards, incorporates advanced authentication and encryption features
- **Cost-effective:** Extensive monitoring and broad feature offering at a fraction of the competitor's prices
- **Reliable:** Bootstrapped, private, and profitable for 20+ years in the market

## Disclaimer

This page highlights ManageEngine OpManager as an alternative to Checkmk. This page is compiled from the information available on Checkmk's website. We have made every attempt to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information provided. However, the information is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. ManageEngine is not liable for any inaccuracies in the page due to changes made on Checkmk's website or any development made to Checkmk's product subsequent to the date of publication of this page. Please refer Checkmk's website for more information.

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