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About Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, containers) and act quickly to resolve them More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with almost 2,000 checks 'out of the box' • Log and event-based monitoring • Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage • Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs • Flexible notifications and automated alert handling • Monitoring of business processes and complex systems • Hardware and software inventory • Graphical, rule-based configuration, and automated service discovery Top use cases: • Server Monitoring • Network Monitoring • Application Monitoring • Database Monitoring • Storage Monitoring • Cloud Monitoring • Container Monitoring	About Retrospective is a desktop application for convenient and effective searching in local and distributed log files as well as log data from container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes. Such data sources are accessed on local and/or remote computers and the log data of different format is extracted, combined and displayed in one place (the result table). Advanced features such as profile definition, data source monitoring, sorting/filtering result entries, highlighting, bookmarking, exporting etc. enable fast and robust log data exploration. Retrospective assists you in early error detection by monitoring application servers’ logs, searching for exceptions, etc. The highly optimized search engine together with the aforementioned features ensures that much precious time is saved. Being able to access all log data in one place makes log data processing incredibly efficient, thus ensuring quick and effective reactions to problems, and therefore gain customers’ trust and loyalty.
Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Supported Cloud Not Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience System administrators, IT managers and DevOps	Audience IT specialists ranging from business analysts, software developers, testers to system administrators
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Not Supported	API Offers API Not Supported
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Pricing $0/year Pricing is per service i.e. per monitored metric such as CPU utilization Free Version Supported Free Trial Supported	Pricing $92 per year Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.5 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 4.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 4.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros -The user interface and graphical user interface are straightforward and easy to use, updates are effortless to implement. -It can easily monitor city platforms, databases, servers, etc. -You can customize the notification, being based on Nagios, it is mighty and swift to use. It's the best IT monitoring solution. It can monitor cloud, server and database flawlessly. It monitors core performance and resources. Very easy to deploy and check Azure cloud performance. Cons -The front-end design is a bit outdated and can be improved for the user's better experience. Other than that, everything works fine and effortless. Overall it's an outstanding IT monitoring solution.	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Easy to use for people like me that are not working daily with complex grep commands. sorting fetching and exclude text form a search. perfect to drag n drop a file and analyse it. Cons the great features are sometimes hidden. The handbook will help you to find some, in case you are reading Handbooks.
Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported
Company Information Checkmk Founded: 2007 Germany checkmk.com	Company Information centeractive AG Founded: 2005 Switzerland retrospective.centeractive.com
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Categories Business Activity Monitoring Supported Cloud Management Supported Cloud Monitoring Supported Container Monitoring Supported Container Security Supported Database Monitoring Supported Hardware Monitoring Supported IT Alerting Supported IT Infrastructure Monitoring Supported Log Analysis Supported Log Monitoring Supported Network Mapping Supported Network Monitoring Supported Server Management Supported Server Monitoring Supported System Monitoring Supported Website Monitoring Supported	Categories Log Analysis Supported Log Management Supported Log Monitoring Supported
Show More Features Business Activity Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Supported Business Process Management Supported Cross Application Analysis Supported Email Monitoring Supported Events Monitoring Supported KPI Monitoring Supported Pre-Configured Events Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Workflow Management Not Supported Cloud Management Features Access Control Not Supported Billing & Provisioning Not Supported Capacity Analytics Supported Cost Management Supported Demand Monitoring Not Supported Multi-Cloud Management Supported Performance Analytics Supported SLA Management Supported Supply Monitoring Supported Workflow Approval Not Supported Container Security Features Access Roles / Permissions Supported Application Performance Tracking Not Supported Centralized Policy Management Not Supported Container Stack Scanning Supported Image Vulnerability Detection Not Supported Reporting Supported Testing Supported View Container Metadata Supported Database Monitoring Features Anomaly Detection Supported Autodiscovery Supported Capacity Planning Supported Dashboard Supported Dependency Tracking Not Supported Historical Trend Analysis Supported Multitenancy Supported Notifications / Alerts Supported Performance Monitoring Supported Permissions / Access Controls Supported Predictive Analytics Supported Prioritization Not Supported Query Analysis Supported Resource Optimization Supported Troubleshooting Supported IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Supported Application Monitoring Supported Bandwidth Monitoring Supported Capacity Planning Supported Configuration Change Management Supported Data Movement Monitoring Supported Health Monitoring Supported Multi-Platform Support Supported Performance Monitoring Supported Point-in-Time Visibility Not Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Virtual Machine Monitoring Supported Network Mapping Features Color Codes / Icons Not Supported Compliance Management Not Supported Device Auto Discovery Supported Hierarchical Mapping Supported Location-Based Mapping Supported Map Exporting Supported On-Demand Mapping Not Supported Reporting/Analytics Supported Self-Updating Maps Supported Web Traffic Reporting Not Supported Network Monitoring Features Bandwidth Monitoring Supported Baseline Manager Not Supported Diagnostic Tools Supported Internet Usage Monitoring Supported IP Address Monitoring Supported Real Time Analytics Supported Resource Management Not Supported Server Monitoring Supported SLA Monitoring Supported Uptime Monitoring Supported Web Traffic Reporting Supported Server Management Features CPU Monitoring Supported Credential Management Supported Database Servers Supported Email Monitoring Supported Event Logs Supported History Tracking Supported Patch Management Supported Scheduling Not Supported User Activity Monitoring Not Supported Virtual Machine Monitoring Supported System Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Supported Antivirus Management Not Supported Data Backup / Recovery Not Supported Device Monitoring Supported Inventory Management Supported Patch Management Not Supported Policy-based Automation Supported Remote Monitoring Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Risk Analysis Not Supported Server Monitoring Supported Service Configuration Management Supported Website Monitoring Features Availability Testing Supported Event Logs Supported Event-Based Notifications Supported FTP Monitoring Supported Mail Server Monitoring Supported Maintenance Scheduling Supported Performance Metrics Supported Real Time Monitoring Supported Transaction Monitoring Supported Uptime Reporting Supported
Integrations AWS Backup Supported Atto Supported BloxOne Threat Defense Supported Couchbase Supported Docker Not Supported F5 BIG-IP Supported IBM Tivoli Monitoring Supported Microsoft Azure Supported Nimble Supported Nutanix Intelligent Operations Supported Oracle Berkeley DB Supported PostgreSQL Supported SAP HANA Supported SIGNL4 Supported SMSEagle Supported Salesforce Supported Skype Supported openITCOCKPIT Supported root9 Supported Show More Integrations View All 33 Integrations	Integrations AWS Backup Not Supported Atto Not Supported BloxOne Threat Defense Not Supported Couchbase Not Supported Docker Supported F5 BIG-IP Not Supported IBM Tivoli Monitoring Not Supported Microsoft Azure Not Supported Nimble Not Supported Nutanix Intelligent Operations Not Supported Oracle Berkeley DB Not Supported PostgreSQL Not Supported SAP HANA Not Supported SIGNL4 Not Supported SMSEagle Not Supported Salesforce Not Supported Skype Not Supported openITCOCKPIT Not Supported root9 Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 2 Integrations
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