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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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
* ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Replace all VBS agent plugins
Microsoft deprecates VBS scripting. All VBS agent plugins should be replaced by an implementation in PowerShell or Python.
Support PiggyBack data from remote hosts
Implement a feature to leverage piggyback data, which are shared by a product integrated way from remote sites
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 ...
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 ...
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/ ...
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 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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
In progress
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
Oracle Cloud Monitoring (OCI)
Build a special agent similar to AWS and Azure (and Google Cloud). OCI is coming up fast.
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 ...
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 ...
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
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
option to select labels in a view
Hallo,
it would be helpful to select only some lables in a view. Actually all labels are show for every host.
The usecase here is that I m using a tag to define the ...
add CDP scanner to Parent-Scan
Please extend the parent scan to include the option of scanning via the CDP protocol
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 ...
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…). ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Allow IPv6 address in Notification spooler configuration
Hello,
Please add IPv6 support option in Notification spooler configuration.
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
- ...
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. ...