checkmk/check-mk-managed repository overview

⁠Official Checkmk MSP image

This is the official image for creating Checkmk MSP⁠ containers. Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system designed for scalability, flexibility, and low resource consumption. It supports infrastructure and application monitoring across physical, virtual, containerized, and cloud environments.

Containers built using this image have the following properties:

• Each container manages a single site
• No internet connection is needed during container creation/update
• No special container privilege level required
• Clean update procedure

The image provided here contains Checkmk MSP, the monitoring platform for IT service providers, designed for highly scalable and flexible monitoring of applications, hybrid, and cloud infrastructures. Checkmk MSP ensures smooth IT operations for your clients, thanks to powerful automation, centralized management, strict data protection, and many more features.

⁠Alternative editions of Checkmk

Checkmk is available in different editions, each of which provides a specific set of features and support options.

Checkmk Raw⁠ is the 100% Open Source edition of Checkmk. We recommend Checkmk Raw for small enterprises or hobbyists running a home lab. It's a great way to get started in monitoring, and it's perfect for small infrastructure.

Checkmk Enterprise⁠ accelerates and scales up your monitoring. Features include the automation of monitoring operations, monitoring of dynamic workloads, and visualizations of your IT.

Checkmk Cloud⁠ is a state-of-the-art IT monitoring solution for cloud and hybrid infrastructures. Checkmk Cloud is ready to be operated in the cloud and deal with dynamic ephemeral infrastructure.

A 30-day free trial is available for Checkmk Cloud and Checkmk MSP. During the trial period, all features of the given edition are fully available. After the trial period, the license state 'Free' permits you to monitor a limited number of services, using a maximum of one site, without add-ons, and with up to three Synthetic Tests.

The table shows where images for each edition of Checkmk can be found.

⁠Choosing a build

Please check the official Checkmk User Guide⁠ for information on the latest stable build of the image provided here. Unless you have a specific need for a different version, we recommend using the image version that aligns with the version number marked as "latest" in the dropdown menu at the top of the User Guide.

⁠Quick start and detailed documentation

To set up a container using this image, follow the instructions provided in the official Checkmk User Guide⁠.

Information about how to configure Checkmk inside a Docker container can also be found in the User Guide.