Checkmk
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VisitCheckmk vs Sensu Go
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| Fact | Checkmk | Sensu Go |
|---|---|---|
| Company history | Mathias Kettner founded a Munich consulting business in 2007 that later became Checkmk GmbH, and Checkmk Raw launched in 2012. | Sensu Go OSS was released in 2017 by Sensu Inc., which was acquired by Sumo Logic in June 2021. |
| Founded | 2007 | 2017 |
| Integrations | Checkmk advertises more than 2,000 built-in integrations covering hardware, networks, applications, operating systems and cloud or container platforms. | Sensu names Elasticsearch, Splunk, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Ansible Tower, Prometheus, and Nagios among its integrations and compatible tools. |
Checkmk plans
- CommunityFree
- Synthetic MonitoringFree
- Pro$275 a month
- Cloud$290 a month
- Ultimate$400 a month
Sensu Go plans
- Sensu Go FREEFree
- Sensu Go Pro$36 a year
- Sensu Go Enterprise$60 a year
Pick Checkmk if…
It suits teams monitoring mixed infrastructure, servers, networks, and cloud services. The Community edition is aimed at smaller infrastructures, while distributed monitoring can support larger setups.
Pick Sensu Go if…
Sensu Go suits DevOps and SRE teams managing monitoring across cloud, container, and bare-metal environments. It may fit teams that want declarative configuration, alerting, and remediation in a self-hosted system.