I was suggested to try checkmk, but when cheking I did notice the open source version did have som lacking feates. Do any of you feel the open source gives you 100% of what you need vs enterprise or cloud?
I also noticed the cloud version was out with a 30 day trial, then fallback on a full version with max 750 services, something that would be enough-ish for most small to medium homelabs.
Regardless, what you would guys suggest to do; Go for the open source base version, or cloud restricted to 750 services?
I suggest using Checkmk Cloud for starting. It will be the most pain free way of getting started. And while using it, you’ll find out about all the tricks that can help emulate features of the commercial editions using scripts and the REST API, so that for future projects over 750 services you can better decide whether CRE is sufficient or it is worth for paying one of the commercial editions.
There is also the possibility to downgrade CCE to CRE, if you are getting close to 750 services. See 7,2 and 7.3:
So I understand correctly I can use the cloud as long as I want with full features as long as its under 750 services. If I reach that point I can decide to pay for cloud, or migrate to the open source version?
As its no pricing info its hard to know how much a cloud license would be for a homelab
Yes, exactly. Pricing of cloud is a bit higher than Checkmk Enterprise Edition and always subject to quotation. So as third possibility you also could do the small downgrade to Checkmk Enterprise Edition (see 7.2 in the linked document) which is 65€/month. You only lose push agents (can be emulated by datasource), auto registration (only useful with registering dozens of host at once) and some Azure and AWS dashboards.
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