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The only overview regarding needed resources we have is, and it is just a rough approximation: https://checkmk.com/product/appliancesCheckmk Appliance

We always recommend customers to orientate on the specifications for the HW Appliance.

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You will find more information about the fetcher and checker architecture here:

https://checkmk.com/blog/checkmk-2-0-cmc

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Note

Important information about the Checkers: The checkers should not exceed your CPU core count!

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  • Firewalls are dropping traffic from Checkmk to the monitored systems. If the packets are dropped rather than blocked, Checkmk must wait for a timeout instead of instantly terminating the fetching process.

  • You might have too many DOWN hosts, which are still being checked. Checkmk still tries to query those hosts, and the fetchers need to wait for a timeout every time. This can bind a lot of fetcher helpers, which are blocked for that time. Remove hosts which are in a DOWN state from your monitoring. Either permanently or by setting their Criticality to "Do not monitor this host".

  • For classical operating systems (Linux/Windows/etc.), this indicates that you might have plugins/local checks with quite a long runtime. Increasing the number of fetchers further here is not constructive. Instead, you must identify the long-running plugins/local checks and set them to asynchronous execution and/or define (generous) cache settings or even timeouts, especially for them.

  • For SNMP devices, you might have poorly performing SNMP devices. To troubleshoot those, have take a look at this blog post.

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