Best Server & Application Monitor for free with Checkmk
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Monitoring is an essential part of making sure self-hosted services are up and running and performance is as expected. Checkmk Raw edition provides a free and open source server & application monitor you can spin up in seconds in a Docker container.
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Introduction to monitoring - 0:00
Discussing the importance and benefits of monitoring - 0:53
Introduction to Checkmk free and open source solution - 1:54
Discussing the Checkmk Raw edition and installation options - 2:36
You can run it in a Docker container - 3:00
Difference between the Raw edition and Free edition - 3:30
How to deploy Checkmk using a Docker container - 4:42
Discussing the Docker command for the Checkmk container - 5:19
Running the Docker command - 5:52
Checking the Docker container - 6:10
Container logs show the initial password for Checkmk - 6:27
Discussing the next steps for configuration - 6:58
Logging into Checkmk web interface - 7:21
Adding a host monitoring rule for monitoring VMware - 7:35
Entering credentials and setting SSL checking - 7:58
Adding the vCenter Server as a host to monitor after setting up host rule - 8:18
Service discovery for the vSphere environment - 8:41
Accepting the services for monitoring VMware environment - 9:03
Committing changes in the environment - 9:19
Checkmk querying services for status and analytics - 9:39
Looking at the services and monitoring with Checkmk - 10:10
Perf-o-meter with Checkmk - 10:54
Looking at the cloud monitoring options - 11:11
Docker container host monitoring - 11:30
Monitoring for Docker hosts and metrics - 11:41
Wrapping up and talking about notifications, etc - 12:00 - Навчання та стиль
Branden your a legend.your videos are always informative and fun for noobs.cheers ....
Nice, thanks. I tried the free/enterprise appliance and it was able to talk to my single esxi host (no central vCenter). Looks like there's no raw version for the appliance so I'll probably redo things using the docker version so I can get onto the raw. Adding hosts initially wasn't intuitive, but your video was very helpful in figuring things out.
The licensing was confusing at first.
You are correct. The Raw version didn’t say anything about unlimited but it is.
CheckMK Raw is open source and self hosted.
CheckMK itself is different than Raw.
It is free for 25 hosts after 30 day trial.
Thanks for your help, could not have asked for a better tutorial!
thanks for the demo and info, have a great day
Thanks, you too!
Oh my god you look like Chris Stuckmann that was the reason I clicked on the video lol. But nice content and you have new subscriber.
Checkmk is based on nagios - which I've been using for some 15+ years and am happy with. nice though they have a container. tried nagios xi but found that i worked better editing config files manually after being so used to core
We moved to XI from core some 8-10 years ago and have been happy with it, we like that it bundles the graphing backend and the web frontend into one. plus the plugins are really helpful in getting new monitors setup quickly.
Nice video, I remember you mentioning HashiCorp Vault in one of your videos. Do you use it in your homelab? If so, would you ever make a video about it? There actually aren't that many videos about how to configure it on docker
Vault integrates directly with Zabbix, which is a better monitoring solution IMHO and they do not need to have an Enterprise edition
soo cool video!! thnx!
Nagios/CheckMK/Opsview/etc are OK. Zabbix really opened my eyes with how much better their detection and trigger system is.
I use zabbix as well, professionzlly and personally - in addition to Nagios. Nagios is on a cluster we run and zabbix is for everything else. My main take is that nagios is "flashier" than zabbix - but in the end of the day, zabbix is more usable.
Nice video! A question, it's compatible with Oracle Cloud instances? Thanks!
@8:06 You should mention adding an explicit host argument otherwise this rule will apply to all hosts you attempt to add. Took me a day of troubleshooting to figure out what was wrong.
I love Checkmk, easy installation, autodiscovery... Way smoother and more complete than nagios, zabbix, Prtg...
I tried this with 2.0 but I couldnt figure out how to monitor Unraid with it. Has anyone come up with a plugin for it? I also now get an error saying cant create user when I look at the logs.
Enjoyed the video but seems to be missing the DB store component. Monitoring systems need to store the data somewhere which includes storage maintenance. A very key component to any monitoring server/service. Perhaps this concern is outside the scope of the video, but I felt that it should have been covered at least briefly
Did you notice anything for raw snmp?
Check_mk is just an overlay for nagios. You can also simply run standard nagios as well. Personally i think icinga2 is much nicer as it's got all the same capabilities under the hood but seems to be much less resource intensive than check_mk, nagios, and nagios xi.
solarwinds is what i use...but for free you should try observium
Can this detect any documents that have been updated on server.
Hi,
can I install checkmk after I have the whole stack up & running (running website)?!
Thank you
@VirtualizationHowTo ----> Do you know if CheckMK integrate with Graphana?
How to install on Virtualbox ??
Do you need to use vsphere? or can you use this on a straight ESXi server?
This guy is such a chad
Would be nice to see a comparison with Zabbix.
Definitely
Me too
+1
good one but it would be good if you touch about alerts!!! does it have an option to integrate slack/telegram for any event triggered in raw version?
Yes, it does. Some notification options are Enterprise one (Service Now, JIRA), but Slack and Telegram are available in Raw
Does your microphone need physical isolation? I notice a constant thumping/ banging during your videos. I like your videos, but find this noise difficult tip deal with
I use NetXMS
Jackson, very cool....I need to check this out :)
It has a proprietary dashboard. Without the dashboard it's the worst of the open source solutions
It sounds like you are banging on your microphone or desk about every ten seconds. It’s a deep thud. Kind of distracting. Otherwise, very interesting video.
you can run Zabbix on docker too! and its opensource
Obsolete.
Dynatrace is better. But it's far from free.
You should have a look at LibreNMS 😉
I run LibreNMS and zabbix, zabbix is better, but it also comes down to what you want to monitor.
I dont know, I will still choose zabbix for server monitoring. But it's been a while when I used this typy of monitoring tools.
checkmk is great ! so, lt's talk about zbx
checkmk not free at all there is limitation if you are using free version, zabbix still the best for open source monitoring tools.
He explains the difference in the video. There’s Raw (completely free and unlimited) and the free tier of the Enterprise version (limited to 25 hosts on one site)
yeah.... no... problem with all these "free" stuff as per monitoring is that at some point they run so slow that you simply cannot use them... free nagios to paid nagios zabbix zenoss etc etc... networkchuck channel recently released some umma kama something, sorry do not remember the name which supposed to monitor the network... From what I see, and I have built gazillion of these, prometheus grafana slack and opsgenie is go to option dockerised prom and grafana of course... + some ansible automation to deploy all that... Great video though :)
hmm:
### STARTING XINETD
* Starting internet superserver xinetd [ OK ]
### STARTING SITE
Temporary filesystem already mounted
Starting agent-receiver...OK
Starting mkeventd...OK
Starting rrdcached...OK
Starting npcd...OK
Starting nagios...OK
That point is pretty far out with Checkmk Raw. At some point it’ll fold, but we’re talking thousands of devices monitored.
Just read a post on the Checkmk forum the other day of a guy monitoring 2000 hosts on one Checkmk Raw site. Let me see if I can dig up the link
lol you are referring to uptime kuma and it is not anywhere near this. zabbix sounds like the way to go....
Did you get a chance to compare CheckMK against Zabbix by chance? It has zero limitations and has the same functionality for users with and without support agreements.
Nice and interesting video about Checkmk. I worked with this solution for quite a while and I agree that it's easy to to setup and get some quick results. But if you're dealing with bigger environments, then the command line has to be your friend. A very interesting free solution, which I like better, is Zabbix. Please have a look and make a comparison, I'd be interested, if you agree.
Your stating that Checkmk is the best monitoring, but provide not a single argument how it is better than for example Zabbix...
In my opinion CMK is more flexible than Zabbix and has a lot more plugins/checks out of the box. Also the integrations with InfluxDB/Grafana and ntopng are a great plus. When using the cee (Enterprise edition) or cme (Managed Services edition) it comes with it's own core CMC (Checkmk Micro Core) which is a lot faster then the nagios backend.