Enter your own Checkmk ideas or vote for existing ones

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:

Further information can be found in this guide. If you have any questions, please send an email to feedback@checkmk.com.

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…). ...
Suggested by: Mario Sommer (02 Jun, '22) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 3
Planned Checks&Agents

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.
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (18 May, '22) Upvoted: 17 Apr Comments: 6

Add agent updater registration role

Add a minimal role for registration users for the automatic agent updater.
Suggested by: Dennis Ehmer (27 Apr, '22) Upvoted: 17 Apr Comments: 4

Show column header once at top and option to fix

When scrolling in views it would be nice that the headers can get fixed and only the rows are moving.
Suggested by: Mathias (09 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 12 Apr Comments: 3

Plugin to monitor MSSQL database server running on Linux

There is a mssql VB plugin for monitoring MSSQL servers running on Windows but there is no plugin to monitor MSSQL servers running on Linux (yet). Since nowadays ...
Suggested by: Tobias (23 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 8
Planned Checks&Agents

Better handling for multiple DCD connections

Upon a site or DCD restart, all DCD jobs are being started at the same time. When using multiple DCD connectors, this can cause problems as only one activate changes ...
Suggested by: Martin (12 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 20 Mar Comments: 1
Planned Setup

LDAP Config via RESTAPI

Currently it is not possible to configure ldap settings via rest (bind, port, user_dn, group_dn etc.). Please made it available.
Suggested by: Stephan (31 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 01 Mar Comments: 3

Make dashlet "Host overview" accept filters

The current (2.1) dashlet "Host overview" (placed in the lower left of the Main dashboard in CEE) shows a hexagon for each host. The hexagon is grey when no problems ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (27 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 16 Jan Comments: 7

MSSQL Parent Check & Database Discovery Rule

I'd like to see the mssql checks to get in stale status when a database connection can't be established with the current user, (maybe because the database is offline) ...
Suggested by: Jan (10 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 16 Jan Comments: 1
Planned Checks&Agents

Filter: ip address from hw/sw inventory

Due to most of our monitored servers has more than one interface with its ip, I would like to search an IP and find the host using the information of the checkmk ...
Suggested by: Sergio (27 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 16 Jan Comments: 0

Add logging of client IP in appliance even if the appliance is behind a load balancer

To investigate problems of users, it is necessary to log information about the client IP address. This becomes a problem as the configuration of the internal web ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (13 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 17 Oct, '23 Comments: 0
Planned Appliance

ESX Snapshot Service Monitoring Rule

For the "ESX Snapshots" service, please create a service monitoring rule allowing us to set the thresholds for count and/or age of snapshots for alerting.
Suggested by: HYU (09 Mar, '23) Upvoted: 17 Oct, '23 Comments: 3
Planned Checks&Agents

Differ favicons between (forum|docs|portal).checkmk.com and checkmk applications

For heavy checkmk users, it becomes impossible to distinguish browsser tabs as the favicons all look the same. (kb.checkmk.com looks slightly different, but I'm not ...
Suggested by: Gerd (25 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 24 Nov, '22 Comments: 5
Planned Usability

Extend the logging of nullmailer in appliance

If a mail is sent to a smtp server, the logs just save the information of the destination server, the internal ID of the mail and delivery status. Usually it is also ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (13 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 28 Jul, '22 Comments: 1
Planned Appliance