Checkmk Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Checkmk hosting and monitor your servers, services and networks from your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Checkmk 2.5.0 Community Edition container, generates the cmkadmin password, mounts one persistent volume for the whole monitoring site and publishes the web interface over HTTPS in minutes — with automatic service discovery, alerting and a REST API included.

Deploy your Checkmk

No terminal
No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Checkmk?

Checkmk is an infrastructure and application monitoring platform. It discovers the services on the hosts you add, checks them, raises alerts and draws dashboards and graphs, and it exposes a REST API for automation.

This template runs the Community Edition, licensed GPL-2.0, as a single container: the web interface, the monitoring core, the agent receiver and the other site daemons together, with no separate database.

From Sign-Up to a Live Monitoring Site In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting Checkmk normally means a container, a site volume, a generated admin password, a domain and a certificate before the first host is added. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Checkmk from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Checkmk Community Edition container, pinned by immutable digest, mount the checkmk_sites volume that holds the whole site, generate the cmkadmin password, and publish the web interface over HTTPS at the /cmk/ path of your domain.
Step 03
Add Your First Host
Save the cmkadmin password from the protected credentials panel and open your HTTPS Checkmk URL — the first start takes a few minutes. Then add a host under Setup, run service discovery and activate the pending changes.

Everything Checkmk Does, On Your Own Server

Checkmk Community Edition runs in full here: monitoring, alerting and dashboards in one site on a server you control.

Automatic Service Discovery
Add a host and Checkmk finds the services running on it. In QA, a single added host yielded 20 monitored services.
Alerting And Dashboards
Checks, alerting, dashboards and graphing live in the same Community Edition site, with no separate stack to assemble.
REST API
The web interface and the REST API are served on the same HTTPS address, so automation can use the same URL as people.
Agents, SNMP And Network Checks
Monitor agent-based hosts, SNMP devices and network checks from one place. Monitoring is outbound, so monitored hosts must be reachable from the server.
Agent Receiver Port
Hosts can register and push data to the agent receiver over TLS with client certificates. xCloud does not open firewall ports, so you allow that port yourself.
One Volume Holds The Site
Configuration, users, event history, graphs and agent certificates live on a single named volume, so one backup covers the whole site.

Everything You Need To Run Your Monitoring 24/7

Managed hosting for Checkmk, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Checkmk 2.5.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Generated cmkadmin password
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Checkmk

Monitor a fleet of servers
Add each server as a host, let service discovery find what runs on it and get alerted when a check goes wrong.
Watch network devices
Bring SNMP devices and network checks into the same site as your servers, so one place shows the whole estate.
Keep monitoring data on your own server
Configuration, users, history and graphs stay on a volume you own rather than in a hosted monitoring service.
Automate with the REST API
Script host creation and changes against the REST API served on the same HTTPS address as the interface.

Checkmk Screenshots

The Checkmk welcome page after signing in to a Checkmk 2.5.0 site on xCloud

A Checkmk host with its discovered services listed

Checkmk vs Alternatives

Zabbix: Another self-hosted infrastructure monitoring platform. xCloud has a OneClick page for it.
Prometheus with Grafana: A metrics-first stack where you assemble collection, storage and dashboards from separate projects; Checkmk ships checks, alerting and dashboards together in one site.
Uptime Kuma: A lighter uptime monitor focused on website and service availability rather than host and service discovery.
Datadog: A hosted monitoring service, where Checkmk keeps its data on a server you run.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Checkmk hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Checkmk sits alongside other tools on the same server.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

Get started

Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Checkmk Community Edition is licensed by its maintainers under GPL-2.0.

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Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Checkmk on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Monitoring Platform?

Checkmk on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How do I sign in?

Use cmkadmin and the generated password from the protected installation credentials, at the /cmk/ path of your domain. Anonymous access and wrong passwords are rejected.

Which edition is this?

Checkmk Community Edition 2.5.0, licensed GPL-2.0.

Why does the page take a few minutes to answer after install?

The first start creates the monitoring site, which takes a few minutes. The page answers once it finishes.

What runs alongside Checkmk?

Nothing else: it is a single container with no separate database. One named volume, checkmk_sites, holds the whole monitoring site.

What do I need to open in my firewall?

Only the agent receiver port, if you register agents that push to it. xCloud does not open firewall ports for you. The Livestatus port is inactive unless you enable it and has no authentication, so restrict it by firewall if you do.

Can I change the site ID or the admin password?

Change the cmkadmin password in Checkmk under Setup, Users. The site ID (cmk) is part of every URL and cannot change later. The domain can be changed freely.

Can it monitor hosts that are not on my xCloud server?

Yes, as long as they are reachable from the server: monitoring is outbound for agent pulls, SNMP, ICMP and HTTP checks.

Does it run on an arm64 server?

No. The image is published for linux/amd64 only.

What should I back up?

The checkmk_sites volume, which holds configuration, users, event history, graphs and agent certificates.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Everything on the checkmk_sites volume — in QA, a host and its services were still present after an xCloud Restart.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Checkmk?

No. The template pins Checkmk 2.5.0 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the Checkmk release notes, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 2 CPU cores, 2048 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was around 0.9 GiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Checkmk?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Checkmk project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Checkmk Community Edition.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.