Why This Matters
Without native OCI integration, Oracle Cloud workloads sit outside your monitoring perimeter. Outages aren’t paged. Cost overruns aren’t flagged. Backup failures go unnoticed until something breaks. And your team ends up running a second pane of glass, usually the OCI Console, to fill the gap.
Our OCI plugin for Checkmk closes that gap. Built by Oracle and Checkmk specialists, it brings your full OCI tenancy into the Checkmk you already trust, with the depth, reliability and alerting integration you’d expect from a native plugin.
What It Monitors
OCI Compute
OCPU allocation, memory, instance state and cost tracking.
OCI Block Volumes
Size, backup status and cost.
OCI Volume Groups
Volume group composition, cross-region replication health and backup policy compliance.
Oracle DB Base and ADB
OCPU, storage, backup status, configuration checks and cost.
OCI Load Balancer
Backend health, listener status and SSL certificate expiry.
OCI File Storage
Mount targets, capacity utilisation and cost.
OCI Object Storage
Bucket size, object count, storage tier and cost by tier.
OCI Cost and Usage
Cost reporting by resource type, compartment, region and tenancy.
How It Fits With Your Existing Checkmk Setup
The plugin covers the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure layer: the resources, their configuration and their cost. For database-level monitoring (FRA, redo, sessions, SQL performance), it works alongside the standard Checkmk Oracle plugin. Together, the two give you the full stack, from the OCI tenancy down to the SQL.
Why It Works
Agentless Deployment
No agents installed inside your OCI tenancy. Our plugin pulls from OCI APIs using read-only credentials. Nothing to maintain in production workloads.
Multi-Region by Default
Monitor your entire OCI tenancy across all regions from a single Checkmk instance. No separate configurations per region.
Native Checkmk Integration
Works with Checkmk’s alerting, dashboards and reporting. OCI data sits alongside your other infrastructure, with no separate tools or consoles.
Cost Visibility
Track costs at the resource, service, compartment and tenancy level. See spending alongside performance metrics for complete operational context.
Backup Validation
Automated checks for backup status on block volumes, volume groups and Oracle databases. Know immediately when backups fail or miss their schedule.
Quick Setup
Install via the standard Checkmk extension mechanism. First metrics in under an hour, full tenancy coverage typically same-day.
See It in Checkmk
How It Compares
Most teams choose between OCI’s native monitoring, a third-party APM tool, or building their own integration. Here’s where our OCI plugin for Checkmk fits.
| Feature | Our plugin | OCI native | Third-party APM | Build it yourself |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sits inside existing Checkmk | Native | Separate console | Separate platform | Requires plumbing |
| Multi-region from single config | Yes | Per-region in console | Yes | Custom |
| Cost and performance in one view | Yes | Cost is a separate service | Cost is an add-on | Custom |
| Implementation effort | Hours: same-day for a full tenancy | Hours: basic OCI monitoring | 1 to 2 weeks: setup and tuning | Weeks to months: custom build |
| Vendor expertise required | None: runs in your existing Checkmk | OCI knowledge | OCI and APM stack | Strong infrastructure engineering |
| Oracle and OCI specialist support | BSC team | OCI Support | APM vendor (generalist) | Internal only |
If you’re already running Checkmk and adding OCI to your monitored estate, our plugin is the path with the least disruption to your existing operations practice.
Built and Supported by OCI Specialists
Oracle Technology Specialists
28 years of Oracle Database and OCI experience for Asia-Pacific enterprises.
Built Because We Needed It
We use our plugin in production for our own customers, and built the integration we wanted.
Direct Engineer Support
Talk to the engineers who use it. No reseller, no outsourced support desk.
Certified Partner
Checkmk Gold Certified Partner. Oracle Enhanced Partner with specialisations across OCI, Database, Security and AI.
Requirements
- Checkmk 2.3 or later.
- OCI API keys with appropriate privileges.
- Network connectivity from the Checkmk server to OCI APIs.
Get the Plugin: Free and Open Source
GPL-2.0, all Checkmk editions, no licence, no trial, no lock-in. We run it in production for our own managed-service customers.
Install via the standard extension mechanism, with first metrics in under an hour.
Need More Than the Plugin?
Community support is via GitHub issues, best effort, no SLA. For everything beyond that, talk to the engineers who wrote it:
- Implementation: plugin deployed, tuned and integrated with your alerting, typically same-day for a full tenancy.
- Supported operation: business-hours support with an SLA, covering the plugin and your Checkmk estate.
- OCI monitoring at scale: multi-tenancy, cost governance and backup-compliance reporting.
- Managed Oracle Cloud: we run the platform, you run your business.
