Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Checkmk
Checkmk clearly comes out ahead of Dynatrace on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Checkmk has a free tier; Dynatrace does not. Dynatrace's paid plans start at $1.40/mo.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | hybrid | hybrid |
| Company | tribe29 GmbH | Dynatrace |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | DevelopmentSaaS & Cloud | DevelopmentCybersecurity & InfoSecSaaS & Cloud |
| Categories | observability-apm | error-monitoringdevops |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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| Feature | checkmk | dynatrace |
|---|---|---|
| Agent Bakery | ||
| 10 Days Of Trace Data Retention, Extendable To 10 Years | ||
| Based On Nagios Core | ||
| Apm | ||
| Basic Monitoring | ||
| Automated Root Cause Analysis For E2E Transactions | ||
| Capacity Planning | ||
| Basic Host Health Indicators | ||
| Checkmk Micro Core (Cmc) | ||
| Code-Level Profiling | ||
| Community Support | ||
| Correlation Of Logs In Context Of Hosts, Cloud Services, Databases, Network | ||
| Everything In Pro | ||
| Custom Metrics For Extensibility | ||
| Full-Stack Monitoring | ||
| Everything Included In Foundation & Discovery | ||
| Kubernetes Monitoring | ||
| Everything Included In Infrastructure Monitoring | ||
| Managed By Checkmk | ||
| Filesystem Monitoring (Ex: Disk Usage) | ||
| Open-Source (Gplv2) | ||
| Health Views And Explorative Analysis With Data In Context | ||
| Public Cloud Apis (Aws, Azure, Gcp) | ||
| Host And Process Topology Detection | ||
| Push-Based Agent Communication | ||
| Integration With Visual Studio Code And Jetbrains | ||
| Saas Platform | ||
| Kubernetes Metrics And Events: Cpu, Memory, Network, And More | ||
| Sla Reporting | ||
| Kubernetes Platform Monitoring |
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Dashes mean the feature isn't listed in our data. The tool may still support it.
On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Checkmk comes out ahead overall, though Dynatrace can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Checkmk offers a free tier; Dynatrace does not currently list one.
Dynatrace scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
Checkmk is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
