Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Checkmk
Checkmk clearly comes out ahead of Splunk on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Checkmk has a free tier; Splunk does not. Splunk's paid plans start at $15/mo.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | hybrid | hybrid |
| Company | tribe29 GmbH | Splunk |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | DevelopmentSaaS & Cloud | DevelopmentCybersecurity & InfoSecSaaS & Cloud |
| Categories | observability-apm | observability-apm |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
Checkmk
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per seat
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| Feature | checkmk | splunk |
|---|---|---|
| Agent Bakery | ||
| Advanced Monitoring Capabilities | ||
| Based On Nagios Core | ||
| Basic Synthetic Monitoring | ||
| Basic Monitoring | ||
| Everything In Growth | ||
| Capacity Planning | ||
| Everything In Starter | ||
| Checkmk Micro Core (Cmc) | ||
| Full-Stack Observability | ||
| Community Support | ||
| Infrastructure Monitoring | ||
| Everything In Pro | ||
| Ingest-Based Pricing | ||
| Full-Stack Monitoring | ||
| Standard Alerting | ||
| Kubernetes Monitoring | ||
| Workload-Based Pricing | ||
| Managed By Checkmk | ||
| Open-Source (Gplv2) | ||
| Public Cloud Apis (Aws, Azure, Gcp) | ||
| Push-Based Agent Communication | ||
| Saas Platform | ||
| Sla Reporting |
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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 Splunk can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Checkmk offers a free tier; Splunk does not currently list one.
Checkmk is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
