checkmk/check-mk-ultimate repository overview

⁠Official Checkmk Ultimate image

This is the official image for creating Checkmk Ultimate⁠ (formerly Cloud) 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 Ultimate, the monitoring platform for cloud and hybrid infrastructures. Checkmk Ultimate is ready to be operated in the cloud and deal with dynamic ephemeral infrastructure.

⁠Alternative editions of Checkmk

Additional features and professional support are available in the commercial editions of Checkmk.

Checkmk Community⁠ (formerly Raw) is the 100% Open Source edition of Checkmk. We recommend Checkmk Community 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 Pro⁠ (formerly Enterprise) accelerates and scales up your monitoring. Features include the automation of monitoring operations, monitoring of dynamic workloads, and visualizations of your IT.

Checkmk Ultimate with multi-tenancy⁠ (formerly MSP) is the monitoring platform for IT service providers, designed for highly scalable and flexible monitoring of applications, hybrid, and cloud infrastructures. Checkmk Ultimate with multi-tenancy ensures smooth IT operations for your clients, thanks to powerful automation, centralized management, strict data protection, and many more features.

A 30-day free trial is available for all commercial editions. 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 2.5 and newer can be found.

Checkmk 2.4 and older can be found here:

⁠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.