Checkmk vs ManageEngine OpManager
Checkmk
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ManageEngine OpManager
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| Figure | Checkmk | ManageEngine OpManager |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $275/mo | $7.92/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 8 |
| Spec score · Enterprise IT Management Software | 9.4 (#1) | 9.2 (#2) |
| Spec score · Hardware Monitoring Software | 9.4 (#2) | 9.0 (#3) |
| Spec score · Network Monitoring | 9.4 (#2) | 9.0 (#5) |
| Spec score · Network Performance Monitoring Software | 9.3 (#1) | 9.1 (#2) |
| Spec score · Network Monitoring - Enterprise Software | 9.4 (#1) | 9.1 (#2) |
| Spec score · Hardware monitoring tools | 9.0 (#3) | 8.9 (#5) |
| Spec score · Server Monitoring | 9.4 (#2) | 9.2 (#3) |
| Spec score · Network Monitoring - Midmarket Software | 9.4 (#2) | 9.2 (#3) |
| Company facts | LinkedIn lists Checkmk as privately held, founded in 2007, headquartered in Munich, with 201–500 employees. | LinkedIn lists ManageEngine as privately held, founded in 2002, headquartered in Del Valle, Texas, with 5,001–10,000 employees. |
| Founded | 2007 | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Munich, Germany | Pleasanton, California, United States |
| Integrations | Checkmk advertises more than 2,000 built-in integrations covering hardware, networks, applications, operating systems and cloud or container platforms. | Help documentation lists integrations with ServiceDesk Plus, Applications Manager, AlarmsOne, ServiceNow, Slack, Jira Service Management, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, PagerDuty, Cisco WebEx, Log360 and WhatsApp through custom integration. |
| Rating on Apple App Store | No rating overview is displayed because the app has not received enough ratings or reviews. | 4.6 out of 5 from 129 ratings for the OpManager iPhone/iPad app. |
| Rating on Gartner Peer Insights | 4.5 out of 5 from 138 reviews. | 4.5 out of 5 from 1,029 ratings. |
| Rating on TrustRadius | 9.1 out of 10 from 18 reviews and ratings. | 8.4 out of 10 from 105 reviews and ratings. |
| Scalability | One Checkmk instance can monitor thousands of servers and scale horizontally with distributed monitoring. | Enterprise monitoring is stated to scale beyond 10,000 devices or 50,000 interfaces using probe-central architecture. |
| Server monitoring | Checkmk monitors web, mail, and database servers using more than 2,000 smart checks, auto-discovery, and network mapping. | It monitors physical and virtual servers including Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix, Xen and Nutanix HCI. |
| Support | The Pro plan includes professional support for 8h x 5d, while Ultimate includes 10h x 5d and can be upgraded to 24h x 5d. | The free download page offers registration for free technical support. |
| System requirements | Checkmk 2.5 server packages support Debian 12/13, RHEL 8/9/10, SLES 15 variants and Ubuntu 22.04/24.04/26.04 on x86_64. | For 1–250 devices, the minimum Standard/Professional requirement is a 4-core 2.0-GHz Xeon or four vCPUs, 4 GB RAM and 20 GB SSD. |
| What it does | Checkmk provides unified infrastructure monitoring and observability across servers, networks, applications, databases, cloud, containers and user experience. | OpManager monitors routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, printers and storage devices. |
Plans
Checkmk
- CommunityFree
- Synthetic MonitoringFree
- Pro$275 a month
- Cloud$290 a month
- Ultimate$400 a month
ManageEngine OpManager
- Free EditionFree
- Free EditionFree
- Standard Edition$95 a year
- Standard Edition$95 a year
- Professional Edition$145 a year
- Professional Edition$145 a year
- Enterprise Edition$4,595 a year
- Enterprise Edition$4,595 a year
In their own words
Checkmk
Checkmk monitors cloud, hybrid, and data center infrastructure, including containers and networks. For web, mail, and database servers, it combines more than 2,000 smart checks with automatic discovery and network mapping. Monitoring can use native agents for Windows, Linux, and other systems, agentless SNMP and TCP/UDP checks, or API-based checks over HTTP/XML, SSH, or TELNET. Cloud coverage includes AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, with automatic component detection and Quick Setup. One instance can monitor thousands of servers, while distributed monitoring supports horizontal scaling. Community includes more than 2,000 integrations and is intended for smaller environments, scaling to approximately 100 hosts. The software can run on customer hardware or virtualized infrastructure, with Linux distribution packages, Docker, and a Virtual Appliance. The Community plan is free forever and includes community support. The pricing note lists paid plans from €190/mo (annual) and a 30-day trial. Other listed plan prices use USD: Pro is $275 a month, Cloud is $290 a month, and Ultimate is $400 a month. Platforms include API, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows.
ManageEngine OpManager
ManageEngine OpManager monitors and manages network infrastructure from a self-hosted unified console. It tracks device and server metrics including CPU, memory, disk use, latency, packet loss, and response time. For traffic and bandwidth analysis, it supports NetFlow, sFlow, J-Flow, and IPFIX. Severity-based alerts and automated troubleshooting through scripts or workflow actions address faults. The product page says OpManager supports more than 11,000 device types from over 450 vendors. Integrations include ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams, OpenAI, Jira, Grafana, Slack, ServiceDesk Plus, webhooks, and REST APIs. It can use a locally deployed Ollama runtime for on-premises AI processing without data leaving the network. Access controls include custom roles, password policies, Active Directory, SAML, and two-factor authentication; listed security measures include SSL encryption and file integrity monitoring. The perpetual Free Edition monitors three devices. A 30-day full-featured trial has no device cap. Standard starts at $95 a year for 10 devices, Professional at $145 a year for 10 devices, and Enterprise at $4,595 a year for 250 devices.