Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

Checkmk vs Zabbix

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Checkmk

by Checkmk

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Pricing: Community edition free; Pro from EUR 190 and Ultimate from EUR 275 a month for 100 hosts, billed annually; Cloud EUR 240 a month billed monthly for 1,000 services.

Checkmk is infrastructure and network monitoring software for IT teams, with an open source Community edition, self-hosted paid editions and a SaaS option.

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Zabbix

by Zabbix

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Pricing: Open-source software is free with no license fee. Support from EUR 245/mo billed annually; Platinum and above by quote. Zabbix Cloud from $50/mo, 5-day trial.

Zabbix is open-source infrastructure and network monitoring software that IT departments and MSPs self-host or run as the managed Zabbix Cloud.

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Feature Comparison

Infrastructure Monitoring Tools features side-by-side

Feature	Checkmk 14/17 features	Zabbix 13/17 features
Cloud provider metric integrations Pulls metrics from AWS, Azure and Google Cloud services through their monitoring APIs without an agent.	Yes	Yes
Kubernetes cluster monitoring Reports pod, node and deployment health with cluster-level dashboards available out of the box.	Yes	Yes
Container-level metrics Collects CPU, memory, network and restart counts per container from Docker or the container runtime.	Yes	Yes
Host map visualization Shows every host as a tile coloured by a chosen metric and grouped by any tag.	No	Yes
Tag-based grouping and filtering Slices every dashboard, alert and view by environment, team, region or a custom tag.	Yes	Yes
Prebuilt dashboards for common services Ships ready-made dashboards for databases, queues, web servers and other common integrations.	Yes	No
Anomaly alerts on infrastructure metrics Alerts when a host or service metric departs from its learned pattern instead of a fixed threshold.	Yes	Yes
Alert routing to chat and paging tools Sends alerts to chat channels and on-call paging services through built-in integrations.	Yes	Yes
Custom metrics via StatsD or an API Accepts application-defined metrics submitted through StatsD, DogStatsD-style clients or an HTTP API.	Yes	Yes
Prometheus endpoint scraping Scrapes Prometheus exporters and /metrics endpoints with the agent and stores them alongside other metrics.	Yes	Yes
Serverless function metrics Tracks invocations, duration, errors and cold starts for AWS Lambda and equivalent services.	No	No
Configuration change tracking Records changes to cloud resources and host configuration so incidents can be lined up against them.	No	No
Custom dashboard builder Builds dashboards from drag-and-drop widgets with template variables that switch host or environment.	Yes	Yes
Metric retention of at least 13 months Keeps full or rolled-up metrics for 13 months or longer so year-on-year comparisons are possible.	Yes	Yes
Auto-discovery of hosts and containers New hosts, containers and cloud instances appear automatically as they launch with no manual registration.	Yes	Yes
On-premise and hybrid host support Runs the agent on physical servers and VMs in your own data centre, not only on cloud instances.	Yes	Yes
Free tier for a handful of hosts Offers a no-cost plan that monitors a small number of hosts with limited retention.	Yes	No
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Checkmk 14/17 features

Cloud provider metric integrations: Yes
Kubernetes cluster monitoring: Yes
Container-level metrics: Yes
Host map visualization: No
Tag-based grouping and filtering: Yes
Prebuilt dashboards for common services: Yes
Anomaly alerts on infrastructure metrics: Yes
Alert routing to chat and paging tools: Yes
Custom metrics via StatsD or an API: Yes
Prometheus endpoint scraping: Yes
Serverless function metrics: No
Configuration change tracking: No
Custom dashboard builder: Yes
Metric retention of at least 13 months: Yes
Auto-discovery of hosts and containers: Yes
On-premise and hybrid host support: Yes
Free tier for a handful of hosts: Yes

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Zabbix 13/17 features

Cloud provider metric integrations: Yes
Kubernetes cluster monitoring: Yes
Container-level metrics: Yes
Host map visualization: Yes
Tag-based grouping and filtering: Yes
Prebuilt dashboards for common services: No
Anomaly alerts on infrastructure metrics: Yes
Alert routing to chat and paging tools: Yes
Custom metrics via StatsD or an API: Yes
Prometheus endpoint scraping: Yes
Serverless function metrics: No
Configuration change tracking: No
Custom dashboard builder: Yes
Metric retention of at least 13 months: Yes
Auto-discovery of hosts and containers: Yes
On-premise and hybrid host support: Yes
Free tier for a handful of hosts: No

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Pricing

Checkmk

Community edition free; Pro from EUR 190 and Ultimate from EUR 275 a month for 100 hosts, billed annually; Cloud EUR 240 a month billed monthly for 1,000 services.

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Zabbix

Open-source software is free with no license fee. Support from EUR 245/mo billed annually; Platinum and above by quote. Zabbix Cloud from $50/mo, 5-day trial.

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