I really hope they’ll make checkmk easier to use.
In the quest to replace PRTG, I explored a few monitoring solutions and with checkmk I’ve had the best end result. And this only using the raw edition and no checkmk agents.
I was about to start playing with checkmk enterprise edition, to understand if we could propose it to out PRTG customers.
But, honestly, all our customers choose PRTG for one reason only: it’s very easy and intuitive.
I’ll admit PRTG is not that powerful or flexible and also our customers have only small to mid-size networks to monitor.
None of our customers want to invest a lot of time or resources in learning and operating a monitoring solution, so in the end they all kept using their existing setup and started paying the very expensive subscriptions.
So far I like checkmk, but I’m afraid it will be a hard sell to customers that want an easy solution.