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Export service summary to InfluxDB 2.0
Today if you are interested in the service state of a specific service this have now been added to the Influx DB export. However the Summary of the service state ...
Under consideration
Fix bug: Alternative display name for Services
Alternative display name for Services is not working ! Regardless of version V2.1 / V2.2
Not planned
Add graph display options to custom graphs
When you view a service that includes graphed data, you can specify an exact time/date range using:
Display > Modify Display Options > Select Date range or Date ...
Under consideration
Graphing
Cascading livestatus of several remote sites on a single port
We are asking if possibile in future release to introduce this feature:
it's like with cascading livestatus but not quite the same.
In shorts we would like to ...
Under consideration
Notification: Allow to specify assignee or component used during Jira issue creation
There should be the possibility in the notification rules using plugin "jira_issues" to specify the assignee or component to be used for issue creation.
Under consideration
Notifications
Add the LVM volume name to the metric Graph Disk IO dm-
To drill down Performance Problems it would be eassier to have the LVM volume names in the service name or in the metric graph.
ll /dev/mapper/
total 0 ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Service Description Limitation - UX Feature
It would be great to limit the amount of the characters for Service Description in the User Interface. That feature could be optional and customizable. If needed we ...
Under consideration
Usability
Agent bakery: SECURITY: define and verify custome files
Defining only one directory is very risky, someone can change the files and no one will detect it, not even the admin who distributes the files via bakery
So we need ...
Under consideration
Agent Bakery
Agent bakery: SECURITY: show all changes why agents has to be bake
Show all changes which leads the bakery to say that the agents has to be bake. As well the changes for custom files, just show all changes.
Reason: Security: To have ...
Under consideration
Agent Bakery
Use persistent device name for single disk Disk IO checks
When using not only the Disk IO summary check but individual checks for each disk the item is the current /dev/sd name of the disk.
In larger systems these may get ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
do not require If-Match header with etag value for activation of changes via REST API
Why would we need the etag value to activate (foreign) changes via REST API?
What is the use case for that?
Where is the werk that introduced this change in ...
Not planned
Appliance preload Firmware and Checkmk Version for less Datavolume
i believe, that the Update via Commandline eill not be realised :-( Maybe this idea finds aome aproach.
Upload the Update firmware and version Files to the ...
Under consideration
Appliance
DCD: negateable "Only add matching hosts"
It would be cool if the "Only add matching host" option could be negateable so that only host that are not matching the defined Regex are created.
For me that ...
Under consideration
Usability
Same report scheduler and recurring downtimes options
To automate reporting after recurring downtime of hosts / services it would be nice to have the same schedule possibilities in report scheduler and recurring ...
Option to permanently disable the sidebar
In the user profile we can choose if the sidebar should be shown left or right.
Many users do not use it an have to switch it off manually every time.
It would be ...
Under consideration
Usability
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 ...
"Linux and Solaris Multipath Count" also for AIX
Hello,
We would like to be able to control the monitoring of multipath on AIX systems in a similar way to Linux and Solaris. Currently there is no such Rule for AIX.
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Enhance Rule "Linux and Solaris Multipath Count"
Hi,
currently you can configure in Rule "Enhance Linux and Solaris Multipath Count" either percentage or absolute values. For the percentage values, I can ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
UNRAID Support
Please support a checkmk distro in the UNRAID App Store. I have it working, but since it is not packaged for UNRAID, I am missing a couple of useful capabilities.
Under consideration
Monitor the number of NICs which are asigned to a Bonding Interface
We noticed that checkmk displays the Bonding Interface Service green/OK even if only one interface is assigned to this bond. E.G.
Bonding Interface bond0 Mode: ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Password Store with user and password
To use only the password is not enough for security.
It needs that the user and the password is stored in the Password Store.
reason: to hide user and password in ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
configuration options for the MS SQL agent plugin
as mentioned at the conference, when you rewrite the VBS MS-SQL Agent plugin, make it more configurable what sections to execute, like file sizes, connection ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Firmware and Checkmk Version Upload and Upgrade via Commandline
I wand to upgrae my Appliances via commandline to reduce the uploading time. i need only one transer then to the customer site via WAN. Internal scp onsite is more ...
Under consideration
Appliance
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 ...
Under consideration
Notifications
Log/event monitoring: Ingest events via REST API endpoint
USE CASE: There are some applications and devices which integrates well via REST API also for sending events/alerts, while they have no syslog nor SNMP trap ...
Under consideration
RestAPI
Better visualization of derived roles
When creating a role by deriving it from an existing one, the role overview shows a column "Modifications", giving the number of permissions deviating from the source ...
Exchange Queue like SmartHostConnectorDelivery or SmtpDeliveryToMailbox should be discovered
Exchange Queue discovery is very limited to :
"Active Remote Delivery". "Retry Remote Delivery", "Active Mailbox Delivery", "Poison Queue Length"
There are more ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Support ignoring case in rule conditions for services
Before Checkmk 2.2 it was possible to add RegEx modifiers like (?i) to service conditions, resulting in the match being case-insensitive.
In Checkmk 2.2 this is no ...
Under consideration
MKP available update check
Integrate an Button on the extension update page to be able to live check all plugins for possibly available updates. This could even be used during an upgrade of the ...
Under consideration
Show datasource of service in setup
It would be good to see the datasource of the service on the service discovery page in setup.
Under consideration
Linux | Switch Thermal zones from (random) IDs to sensor name of thermal zone
Please switch from linux randomly generated thermal_zone IDs to the sensor type.
This could prevent switching the cpu-configuration with it's limit from ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Better VM monitor / vSphere integration
It is impractical to enable SNMP or install the Checkmk agent on hundreds or thousands of VMs, and unnecessary as well. Between vSphere / ESXi monitor, and ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Opsgenie Notification: add more event types
The Opsgenie Notification Plugin currently only supports sending OK, WARN, CRIT events. For all other event types the message "not supported" appears.
Please ...
Under consideration
Notifications
Redis check with TLS
Current redis check allows password AUTH but communication still only support plain.
Since a while now, redis supports TLS. Would be nice to support that as well
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Uptime Kuma Integration
I would like to have a general basic status page for my users without login. I Am now using Uptime Kuma. Works great and I have done some tweaking like in the link ...
Under consideration
Integrate OpenTelemetry connector
woukld be nice to bring some connectors to other tools
Under consideration
Checkmk Agent: Report error messages of system commands to Checkmk
If there is a problem with any of the system commands that the Agent uses, the agent should report the problem in some form to Checkmk so that the system or ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Systemd Service Summary: show the ignored Serives in check details
If the Service is in a OK State the Check Details only shows the Numbers:
Total: 160
Disabled: 12
Failed: 2
Ignored: 2
The customer sees that there are ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
check_network_fs_mount and NFSv4 pseudo filesystem
When mounting the pseudo filesystem from an NFSv4 fileserver, the mountpoint is not a "real" filesystem.
Its size is 0 (total_blocks) and free_blocks is also 0. ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Notification or state Stale services
Is it possible to add some functionality that you can be notified when services became stale? Now when multiple services became stale there is no service state or ...
Network Topology enhancements
Two features are missing from the "new" network topology when compared with the old Nagvis automap:
- Show the downtime status of a host
- When clicking on the ...
Under consideration
Usability
remove trailing slash from IPMI units in output of mgmt_ipmi agent
our IPMI server hardware gives ("ipmitool -c sdr"):
System Temp,40,degrees C/unspe,ok
Mid-Plane Temp 1,30,degrees C/unspe,ok
Mid-Plane Temp 2,29,degrees ...
Not planned
Support Oracle custom SQL queries with the windows oracle monitoring plugin
Currently it is not possible to create custom sql queries with the oracle plugin for windows as it is for linux servers.
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Windows Services: show reason that led to the overall check state.
For the person on duty, it is not immediately recognisable what caused the current state of the Service.
Was it the service state (running,...) and/or the start ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Remove the automatically added metric information from local Check Summary/Details
Why are the metrics of the local checks displayed simultaneously in the summary, the details and in the service metrics row? The redundant metrics information ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Hide/Show graph in Service View
If you have a lot of service graphs, the service view can sometimes become quite long and take a long time to load.
It would be very handy to be able to hide/show ...
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
Under consideration
RestAPI
support for "Client Credentials Grant" (RFC6749) Authentication in check_http / Website Monitoring
The checkmk Website Monitoring should support "Client Credentials Grant" (RFC6749, Section 4.4:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749#section-4.4) as ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
VMware - Skip VM templates
The vSphere Agent discovers VM templates and generates a warning service for each because templates are always powered off. VM templates should be skipped during ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Make Proxmox special agent more resilient
Currently the Proxmox special agent produces random errors and exits with code 1 if one of the nodes in a Proxmox cluster is down (for maintenance).
The special ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents