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Replace Open Hardware Monitor with LibreHardwareMonitor

Since the development of Open Hardware Monitor has been discontinued since 2020, it should be replaced within the Windows agent by its fork LibreHardwareMonitor ...
Suggested by: Marcus Klein (26 Feb) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Mobile App for Checkmk

Create an iOS and Android app for Checkmk, which is focused on monitoring (not setup). It should address 2 common use cases: * Receive notifications and allow drill ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (06 May, '22) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 19

ARM support for the CEE and CME

Please add ARM for both CME and CEE so it can be run on platforms like Raspberry and similar.
Suggested by: Edgar (04 May, '22) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 8
Under consideration Site management

Checkmk Services Dependencies across hosts

It would be great to have service dependencies across hosts for Checkmk, just like the host parent/child relationships. In case that the parent service fails all ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (06 May, '22) Upvoted: today Comments: 17
Under consideration Checks&Agents Notifications Setup

Adding option for consider different dimension in a clustered service with "Best of" Logic

A service has n dimensions. In cluster mode, a group of dimensions on node A may be in some state (wich some of them are crit for example), and a distinct group of ...
Suggested by: Biagio (07 Dec, '23) Upvoted: today Comments: 1
Under consideration Checks&Agents

More SSL Checks - For Example, FQN

Right now, the only ssl check that exist is how many days to expiration. But what if the ssl certificate is replaced with a default ssl certificate (in case of let's ...
Suggested by: Creating Digital (15 Feb) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Check_mk-azure_app_registration: also add certificats expiration

Also include certificats expiration for Azure Registred Apps in check_mk-azure_app_registration, it only monitors Secrets client currently.
Suggested by: Maxime (23 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Enable Child/Parent relations between hosts monitored on different sites

Currently the Parent of a host always needs to be monitored on the same site. This causes that we need to add dummy hosts, having the same IP as the really monitored ...
Suggested by: Axel Rosemann (05 May, '22) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 9
Under consideration Setup

When deleting a host, also remove rules that are only for that host

Especially the ruleset "disabled services" accumulates a large number of rules when users are manually disabling services in the configuration. When hosts are ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (10 Jan, '23) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 6
Under consideration Site management Usability

Add a generic Plugin for polling of JSON status APIs

Many applications provide an HTTP API that can be used to query the health status, as is common with Docker containers. It is about time for a rule-based check ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (25 May, '22) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 6
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Add "backup sms gateway" option in Rule "Parameters for SMS (using modem API)"

Various of our customers are using *two* Teltonica SMS gateways (in separated data centers). It would be nice to extend the mentioned rule with an optional option to ...
Suggested by: Ralf Mellis (14 Feb) Upvoted: 12 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

https certificate check , query and check issuing ca

I recognized that the https crtificate check will be reconstructed with next checkmk releases. Would it be possible to implement a consistency check / parameter, ...
Suggested by: DWe (09 Jan) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 3
In progress

Include Hostname in Container name

The container agent plugins for Docker and Podman should have a configurable option to include the hostname in the container name for the piggyback data sections. ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (06 Feb) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 2
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Add checking repository access in "APT Updates" (mk_apt) plugin

Hi, I think it would be good if the mk_apt plugin also checked that there is no errors when running “apt update”. Today the plugin will show no updates if for ...
Suggested by: e95fja (18 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration Checks&Agents

SAML2 for existing users (no new creation)

Currently, you can only create new users with SAML2 via EntraID, but not authenticate existing ones (e.g. which are already synchronized via LDAP anyway and the ...
Suggested by: Florian (29 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 12 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration User management

Enhance Notification Rule Conditions

It would be nice to have the same filter options for Tags and Labels (one of, none of) like in Monitoring configuration rules to get more flexible Notification Rules ...
Suggested by: Jan Rzaczek (01 Mar) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications Usability

Oracle Cloud Monitoring (OCI)

Build a special agent similar to AWS and Azure (and Google Cloud). OCI is coming up fast.
Suggested by: Arnaud (17 May, '23) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration Checks&Agents

REST-API: Master Control

Please add the possibility, to switch these settings via the REST API: - Notifications - Service checks - Host checks - Flap Detection - Performance Data - ...
Suggested by: M.H (02 Feb) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration RestAPI

mk_logwatch: Ensure that no events are lost during log rotations.

Please add support for reading from rotating log files. Log files are usually renamed or get a new name when certain criteria are met. Depending on the operating ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (17 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 12 Mar Comments: 1

Impersonate as another user to check views and dashboards

Allow an admin to impersonate himself as another user, so he/she can see & verify views/dashboards, as the other user will see them. This helps to develop views or ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (22 May, '22) Upvoted: 29 Feb Comments: 7
Accepted User management

Option to use password store for SNMP credentials

CMK has a builtin-in password store and CMK does SNMP monitoring... Provide the option to use password store entries for SNMP credentials in: * Host properties * ...
Suggested by: Marsellus Wallace (04 Jul, '22) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Fully support lower levels by the CheckMK graphing system

The CheckMK graphing system supports the use of scalars in graphs for warning/critical levels, and the use of conditions for perfometers using the "<var>:warn" and ...
Suggested by: Johan van der Velde (02 Feb) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Graphing

REST-API: add endpoint to remove acknowledgements

Currently it is not possible to remove acknowledgements via API, but via GUI. Use Case: A connected ITSM-platform should be able to remove an acknowledgement, if an ...
Suggested by: Jan Stephan (24 Jan) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration RestAPI

Give NagVis a proper facelift

NagVis is used by many people/customers. It's a crucial part of Checkmk and it really feels dated and old. NagVis needs some love and more features and a more modern ...
Suggested by: Norman Kühnberger (04 May, '22) Upvoted: 14 Mar Comments: 6
Under consideration Dashboards & Views Integrations

Allow IPv6 address in Notification spooler configuration

Hello, Please add IPv6 support option in Notification spooler configuration.
Suggested by: Jagadish Kata (21 Jan) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Dashboard - Multiple Dashboard Cycling / Slideshow

Add the ability to cycle selected dashboards automatically based on a given interval. Similar to Grafana. It would allow the continuous monitoring of all information ...
Suggested by: opensourcefan (11 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 07 Mar Comments: 3
Under consideration Dashboards & Views

Support PiggyBack data from remote hosts

Implement a feature to leverage piggyback data, which are shared by a product integrated way from remote sites
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (02 May, '22) Upvoted: 07 Mar Comments: 9
Planned Checks&Agents

Update "Integrate Opsgenie with Checkmk" on Opsgenie for API V2 Alerts

The Opsgenie Notification Plugin from Trieb29 uses the Opsgenie Alert API V2. Unfortunately, the existing CheckMK API integration in Opsgenie only supports events ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (29 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 06 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Specify custom s3 endpoint as backup target

It would be great to be able to specify an own s3 endpoint, so the target could be used with self hosted aws compliant s3 storages. See 'endpoint_url' in ...
Suggested by: Christoph (05 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 06 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Site management

mk_logwatch to use journalctl in addition to text logfiles.

https://forum.checkmk.com/t/ausgabe-von-systemctl-auf-eine-info-uberwachen/40852/3 Based on this thread the request to add an function to monitor the output of ...
Suggested by: Ralf Prengel (25 Aug, '23) Upvoted: 27 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Fully implement service tags instead of removing them

To our regret, the service tags have never been fully implemented and their full potential has never really been exploited. One of the biggest advantages of tags ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (04 Jan, '23) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 3
Under consideration Setup

Add a generic Plugin for Prometheus Exporter metrics

There are several applications that provide their metrics as Prometheus metrics. Please create a generic check plugin that can read these Prometheus metrics and ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (17 May, '22) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 4
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Support migration of hosts between sites without any loss of data

We need to have the ability to migrate multiple hosts between sites without any data loss
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (11 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 10
Under consideration Site management

Add HW/SW Inventory data to the REST API

It would be nice to access the result data from HW/SW inventory via the REST API.
Suggested by: PaulR282 (29 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 3
Under consideration RestAPI

Make Oracle Locks check much more useful

Currently mk_oracle plugin, section Oracle_Locks has a sql-clause that produces information about session, lock time, SID, machine, serial, process and os user. ...
Suggested by: Mjarl (25 Jan) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Add Api or Script to monitor Vmware Horizon environments

Vmware Horizon is a desktop virtualization environment like citrix In this environment you could monitor the state of the system, total sessions, active sessions, ...
Suggested by: msanudo (26 Jan) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Audit log - show Attributes of delete Object in Details

In the current audit log, no useful information on deleted objects is displayed, the link to the object leads to an error message and the rule number is also of no ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (02 Feb) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Site management Usability

ESX Maintenance Mode Service Monitoring Rule Enhancement

Please consider adding ability to set service state for when ESX is in maintenance mode. Almost always, admins intentionally place a ESX host in maintenance mode. ...
Suggested by: HYU (09 Mar, '23) Upvoted: 12 Mar Comments: 4
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Renaming of folders should rename the internal folder names too

When renaming a folder in WATO the "old" internal name remains. This leads to problems when accessing devices to folders in background programs.
Suggested by: Ralf Spenner (13 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 12 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Usability

Grafana integration Status of hosts & services from Checkmk

Hi! I am using Grafana as my main dashboard. The problem is that I can get a lot of values like CPU, memory and most other checks where it reports performance data. ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (26 Apr, '22) Upvoted: 05 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration Grafana

Remove the separate agent receiver port (usually 8000/tcp)

Nobody understands why we need a separate port for the TLS registration. Please move the agent receiver to the rest of the API on port 443.
Suggested by: Robert Sander (11 Dec, '23) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 1
Under consideration Checks&Agents

check_sql and secure connections to databases

Currently it is not possible to establish secure, encrypted connections to MSSQL-Databases when using check_sql as active check. This should be fixed. Currently ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (17 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 3
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Integrate OpenTelemetry connector

woukld be nice to bring some connectors to other tools
Suggested by: Markus (13 Jun, '23) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration Integrations

Show agent receiver port in Web-GUI

Currently the configured agent receiver port (8000 ff) for the site is only visible on the command line (omd config show or an API request). It would be good to ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (14 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Setup Usability

add CDP scanner to Parent-Scan

Please extend the parent scan to include the option of scanning via the CDP protocol
Suggested by: Eric O. (18 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Setup

History of changes to host rules and properties

It would be very useful to have a history of the changes made with their dates in the properties of the hosts and in the rules. For example, there are rules that ...
Suggested by: Gonzalo Deniz (18 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 5
Under consideration Site management

REST API: Reschedule Checks

Please add the possibility to schedule a recheck of a host or service via the REST API.
Suggested by: M.H (15 Jan) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration RestAPI

REST-API add CME features for Customer

The REST-API cannot handle the customer objects and attributes today. Please add API endpoints to manage customer objects and change existing endpoints (e.g. for ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (19 Jan) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration RestAPI

Cisco CDP virtualisation

Automating CDP visualisation: Hi, I currently work for the NHS in the networking team, it would benefit from having CDP neighbours established by CheckMK, when ...
Suggested by: Awais (12 Feb) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Checks&Agents

CMK AIX Agent

Please change the Memory service to reflect separate values for Memory and Swap, with individual thresholds and total thresholds. If the AIX system uses 100% SWAP ...
Suggested by: Alexandru Florea (13 Mar, '23) Upvoted: 12 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Checks&Agents