Best Server & Application Monitor for free with Checkmk

Monitoring is an essential part of making sure self-hosted services are up and running and performance is as expected. Checkmk Raw edition provides a free and open source server & application monitor you can spin up in seconds in a Docker container. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to monitoring - 0:00 Discussing the importance and benefits of monitoring - 0:53 Introduction to Checkmk free and open source solution - 1:54 Discussing the Checkmk Raw edition and installation options - 2:36 You can run it in a Docker container - 3:00 Difference between the Raw edition and Free edition - 3:30 How to deploy Checkmk using a Docker container - 4:42 Discussing the Docker command for the Checkmk container - 5:19 Running the Docker command - 5:52 Checking the Docker container - 6:10 Container logs show the initial password for Checkmk - 6:27 Discussing the next steps for configuration - 6:58 Logging into Checkmk web interface - 7:21 Adding a host monitoring rule for monitoring VMware - 7:35 Entering credentials and setting SSL checking - 7:58 Adding the vCenter Server as a host to monitor after setting up host rule - 8:18 Service discovery for the vSphere environment - 8:41 Accepting the services for monitoring VMware environment - 9:03 Committing changes in the environment - 9:19 Checkmk querying services for status and analytics - 9:39 Looking at the services and monitoring with Checkmk - 10:10 Perf-o-meter with Checkmk - 10:54 Looking at the cloud monitoring options - 11:11 Docker container host monitoring - 11:30 Monitoring for Docker hosts and metrics - 11:41 Wrapping up and talking about notifications, etc - 12:00