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In order to continually improve Checkmk, we're looking for your ideas. They provide valuable input to our roadmap discussions and allow us to contact you directly for more in-depth discussions or during development. A few tips:
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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Replace all VBS agent plugins
Microsoft deprecates VBS scripting. All VBS agent plugins should be replaced by an implementation in PowerShell or Python.
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 ...
InfluxDB2 Integration with Telegraf Agent not working
Hi all,
The InfluxDB2 Integration is currently not working with InfluxData´s Telegraf Agent with an active InfluxDB2 Input Module because the InfluxDB2 Integration ...
Provide Redfish as a Management Board protocol selection
Redfish is described as a standard designed to deliver simple and secure management for converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center. Redfish is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Add the ability to add "Oracle custom SQL" to the "Oracle database" plugin using bakery.
This improvement is regarding a plugin that is provided by CheckMK (Oracle custom SQL), combined with a feature that is designed for roll-out and maintaining large ...
Create Pie-Chart as Dashlet
Hi Team,
to build good Overview Dashboards for non technicals Pie-Charts are a great visualization also for using in Reports.
Greets Bernd
Podman Container Plugin & Checks
Redhat is trying had to establish Podman as a replacement for Docker, by pushing it as default container engine for Redhat Enterprise products (RHEL, Openshift…). ...
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 ...
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
* ...
Notifications: Periodic Notifications based on event type
configure different periodic notifications for different event types, for example:
- SERVICE is CRIT, email every 30 min
- SERVICE is WARN, email every 60 min
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 ...
Activate changes on sites with no foreign changes
The background story:
Multiple users are doing changes on multiple sites. Some of these changes are on the same sites, others are not. If these users then wanted to ...
Set labels based on software inventory
It would be a great help if labels for inventory-informations could be set by rules.
This would help to configure for example alerts for unwanted software or too old ...
Use the nice modern Graphs from the GUI in Reports and Notifications
The HTML mail notification and CMK reports still use the old graphs instead of the nice modern graphs displayed in the CMK 2.x GUI.
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.
omd start <site> --rescue --- The ability to launch a site in all off mode
The ability to launch a site for debugging or disabling checks in a Rescue Mode.
z. e.g. omd start <site> --rescue
starts the site without host checks, service ...
Adding Custom Host / Service Notes via API
It would be nice to have the ability to add and getting "Custom Host / Service Notes" via REST API
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.
Support PiggyBack data from remote hosts
Implement a feature to leverage piggyback data, which are shared by a product integrated way from remote sites
Ability to monitor systemd units running in user context
See this post for a brief description:
https://forum.checkmk.com/t/how-to-monitor-for-systemctl-user-services-using-checkmk/40603/3?u=pscheckmk
What checkmk needs ...
BI Aggregations: add label support and/or Host- / Servicegroups for "Nodes to create"
Right now we have the possibility to add Nodes via Regex for the Host & Service adding the option to use Host and Service Label`s make it more comfortable.
Another ...
a simple page for changing the notifications recipients
it would be also very practical if there would be a page with simply 2 dropdown menus
with the notification as 1st dropdown and the recipient(s) as 2nd dropdown to ...
Notification chains: a possibility to combine different Notification way`s
Notification chains: a possibility to combine different Notification way`s
as example
an Email as Notification methode to User or Group
if the Service is still in ...
Automated synchronization of SW inventory data with the NVD via API
the possibility of automatically synchronizing the data from the SW Inventory with the NVD database and displaying critical software states
https://nvd.nist.gov/ ...
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 ...
Exclude and Include in Notification Rules
In the "conditions" section in the notification area, there are several match (include) and exclude Options.
But not all objects that can be matched can be ...
Show more information for Prometheus alerts
For the time being the Prometheus plugin shows only the status FIRING, when a Prometheus Alert is triggered. However, there's much more information that could be ...
Overview of labels used
I think, when we are use a lot of labels, is good to have an overview for the used labels in the system
Just when the label are created, they will be put in a ...
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 ...
Network Scan: Scan now button
In order to be able to control when the network scan is carried out and not have to wait 24 hours, a "Scan Now" button could be introduced.
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. ...
Appliance: Enable management through Rest-API or command line
In a modern and high automated environment, I want to be able to configure my appliances also in an automated way. This could be done via Rest-API or by providing ...
Notification: Update a Jira ticket on changed status
A service has a WARN state and a Jira issue is created. If this service change state from WARN to CRIT the existing issue does not become updated and the users of ...
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
GUI > service or HOST search result > ADD TO Servicegroup or HOSTGROUP
the possibility to assign a result of a service or HOST search to a service or HOST group
Dashboard Buttons, with link to other dashboards, and with status of the other dashboard.
We have a main dashboard, there should be a way to get from this main dashboard to another dashboard with a click of a button.
It would be cool if this button would ...
Checkmk NetApp Agent - Option to disable sections
I am using the NetApp Agent to monitor a large NetApp cluster.
The problem is that the agent timed out even with an interval and timeout at 15 minutes.
And the ...
Add a Kafka connector for forwarding metrics/events to Kafka
Kafka is increasingly being used as a central hub for collecting and processing monitoring data in various systems such as event correlation, anomaly detection, ...
Event console to handle JSON input
It would be nice if the event console would accept new line delimited json style input so log relays like logstash, fluentd, etc could send more structured data ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
AgentUpdater: Allow waves of updating
In our enviroment we use update waves, to decide if an update is good.