Checkmk Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Checkmk hosting and monitor your servers, services and networks from your own domain with a self-hosted infrastructure monitoring platform. xCloud runs the pinned Checkmk 2.5.0 Community Edition container, generates the cmkadmin password, mounts one persistent site volume and publishes the web interface over HTTPS in minutes. It is amd64 only and monitors outbound, so your hosts must be reachable from the server.

Deploy your Checkmk

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What is Checkmk?

Self-hosted Checkmk is an IT monitoring system that upstream calls comprehensive and designed for scalability, flexibility and low resource consumption. Its README says it supports infrastructure and application monitoring across physical, virtual, containerized and cloud environments, with a web UI and agent-based and agentless monitoring, and it describes its free open-source edition as licensed under the GNU GPL v2. It is a self-hosted alternative to hosted monitoring services such as Datadog.

On xCloud the template runs the checkmk/check-mk-community 2.5.0 image, pinned by digest, as one container holding the web interface, monitoring core, agent receiver and other site daemons, with no separate database. A single site called cmk lives on the checkmk_sites volume. The Community Edition is the only edition deployed, and the image runs on amd64 servers only.

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

An IT monitoring system for your servers
A sysadmin adds hosts under Setup, activates the pending changes, and watches servers, services and networks from one self-hosted site instead of a per-host hosted subscription.
Discover services automatically
An engineer uses automatic service discovery so newly found services on a host are proposed for monitoring, with alerting and dashboards built on top, rather than hand-writing every check.
Monitor agents, SNMP and web checks
A team monitors Linux and Windows hosts through the agent receiver, plus SNMP devices, ICMP and HTTP checks, which run outbound from the container to the targets.
Automate with the REST API
A DevOps engineer scripts host creation and configuration against the REST API served on the same HTTPS domain, instead of clicking through the interface for each change.

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

Datadog: Choose Checkmk as a Datadog alternative when you want monitoring on your own Cloud VPS. It is a category comparison: Datadog is a hosted service, and this page makes no claim about its features or cost.
Nagios XI: Checkmk is a Nagios XI alternative for teams that want to self-host. This template runs the whole Checkmk site, with its own core and agent receiver, on your own Cloud VPS.
Zabbix: In a Checkmk vs Zabbix comparison, Zabbix is another self-hosted monitoring platform with its own OneClick page. Checkmk runs here as one container with automatic service discovery and a REST API.
Grafana: Grafana is a self-hosted dashboard tool with its own OneClick page. Checkmk runs its own monitoring core, agent receiver, alerting and dashboards in one site.

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.

Is Checkmk free?

Upstream describes its free open-source edition as GNU GPL v2, and this template deploys the Community Edition, so there is no licence charge. The Enterprise, Cloud and MSP editions are commercial and not included. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS.

Can I run Checkmk with Docker?

Yes, and upstream documents Docker for all editions. This template does it for you: the checkmk/check-mk-community 2.5.0 image, pinned by digest, as one container with a persistent site volume behind HTTPS. It is Checkmk Docker hosting, amd64 only, so it cannot run on arm64.

How much RAM does a Checkmk cloud server need?

Checkmk needs 2048 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 10 GB of disk at the least, so a Checkmk cloud server is sold on the 6 GB Cloud VPS. Monitored hosts, services and check intervals decide real needs, and bigger estates need more.

What is the difference between Checkmk editions?

Per upstream, Checkmk Raw is free and open source, while Checkmk Enterprise adds features such as distributed monitoring and built-in dashboards, and Cloud and MSP editions build on that. This template runs the Community Edition only, so commercial-edition features are not available.

How do agents connect to Checkmk?

The agent receiver listens on port 8000 and handles registration and push with TLS and client certificates, published on a platform-allocated host port. The platform does not open firewall ports, so open that port in your own firewall for the hosts you monitor.

How do I sign in to Checkmk?

Open your Checkmk URL, which ends in /cmk/, and sign in as cmkadmin with the generated password from your credentials. The first start creates the site and takes a few minutes. Change the password afterwards inside Checkmk under Setup, Users.

Is Livestatus open on my Checkmk server?

No, not by default. It stays inactive unless you set CMK_LIVESTATUS_TCP to on, which publishes TCP port 6557 with no authentication. If you enable it, restrict that port to trusted addresses in your own firewall.

How do I back up Checkmk?

Take a backup of the checkmk_sites volume, which holds the cmk monitoring site. For a consistent copy, stop the container first or use Checkmk's own backup facilities inside the site, and store the copy off the server. Test a restore before relying on it.

Backups in xCloud

How do I update Checkmk?

Version changes are your call. Checkmk 2.5.0 is pinned by digest and a catalogue refresh leaves live sites alone. Back up checkmk_sites, read upstream's release notes, then adopt a newer template version when one is published and check the site starts.

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.