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The following article explains how to monitor and adjust the performance in Checkmk. |
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First, there is no difference in the requirements for the virtual and hardware appliances.
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Overview
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Checkmk polls all monitored hosts within the configured normal check interval (by default once a minute). |
Monitoring performance can be independent of hardware utilization. So even if your Checkmk server is not using 100% of e.g., its CPU or memory, monitoring performance can still be poor.
Also, the needed resources are based on the number of services, active checks, and types of hosts. If you have e.g., a lot of SNMP hosts, you'll need more CPU cores performance for executing the SNMP walks on those.
The only overview regarding needed resources we have is, and it is just a rough approximation: Checkmk Appliance
We always recommend customers to orientate on the specifications for the HW Appliance.
When importing the virtual appliance, we have some default values preconfigured. Please check out this page: Installation of the virtual appliance
As this is a virtual machine, you can adjust these values anytime.
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the protocol overhead, compared to our agent.
Let's dive into the possible reasons and how to understand potential issues.
Configuration of Fetcher and Checker settings
Hands-On
Required services to monitor
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