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KernelCare Enterprise Live
Patches All Popular Enterprise
Linux Distros, Including

Read the KernelCare Documentation Check Your Kernel and OS Compatibility

Minimize Your Risk While Maintaining
100% Uptime of Your Systems

Eliminate Maintenance Windows

Leave the chaos of coordinating patching-related maintenance windows behind and regain control over your schedule

Streamline Security Compliance

Ensure continuous compliance with tightening regulatory requirements and various cybersecurity standards

Minimize Vulnerability Risk

Apply kernel security updates as soon as they become available and win the race against vulnerability exploits

Cut Operational Costs

Achieve major cost savings by eliminating downtime and removing the hassle of managing system reboots

Why KernelCare Enterprise over kpatch?

Support for Mixed
Linux Environments

Using multiple enterprise Linux distributions? KernelCare delivers rebootless patches to all of them.

An Affordable
Standalone Solution

KernelCare is an independent rebootless patching tool that doesn’t come as part of a costly premium support membership.

Patching Beyond
the Kernel

Put patching on autopilot for shared libraries (glibc, OpenSSL), IoT devices, and QEMU virtualization systems, so you never need to reboot.

Patch All 

Vulnerabilities

Red Hat’s proprietary rating criteria can change what’s considered a High & Critical vulnerability. KernelCare covers all vulnerabilities and offers custom patches as well.

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Quick Comparison

 

kpatch

 KernelCare Enterprise
Supported distributions Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Debian, AlmaLinux and many others
All vulnerabilities patched
Kernel Only
Support for x86-64 and arm64
architectures
Coverage for Linux kernel & critical userspace
Kernel Only
Practically unlimited kernel patching lifetime
QEMU Patching
Single patchset distribution for all patches
Available APIs
Rebootless roll-back functionality
24/7 Support
24×7 for severity 1 and 2 cases,
otherwise standard business hours
Online, 24/7/365
New Client Availability Only for RHEL
(more than 60 distro versions supported)
Add-ons – Custom patches, QEMU, IoT Devices, Shared Libraries
Cost Bundled with RedHat subscription at $879 per year, per machine. $49.50 per year per system, different add-ons can be included in the subscription, bulk pricing is available

 

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