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Oracle Cloud Monitoring (OCI)
Build a special agent similar to AWS and Azure (and Google Cloud). OCI is coming up fast.
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Find malicious files using YARA rules
As a customer, I want Checkmk to search for malicious files (threat hunting) defined in one or many YARA rules. Monitored servers with a matching condition should be ...
Under consideration
Support IAAC (Infrastructure-as-a-code)
Easy possibility to import / export complete config. At least host AND service config.
Under consideration
WATO - select changes to discard
It would be great if we can select changes to discard more granular, maybe with checkboxes.
Under consideration
Make Dashboards editable for other users
It would be great when users (members of a usergroup or a contactgroup) can edit a published dashboard.
Under consideration
Dashboards & Views
Network FileSystems
We have seen a weird case, if the >df< command is not available on the system, the agent stops working.
When does the df command become unavailable ?
When there ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Appliance: Option to change keyboard layout of Appliance console
The Checkmk Appliance console should offer an option to change the keyboard layout. This would make it easier to enter and re-enter passwords with special characters ...
Under consideration
Appliance
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 ...
Under consideration
BI
Use semantic versions
The de facto standard today. Better sooner than later
https://semver.org/
2.1.0p40 -> wrong
2.1.40 -> correct
Under consideration
Responsive Graphs
Right now, the graphs of a service metric have a fixed size. This size won't change on different screen sizes. This can lead to either small graphs on large screens ...
Under consideration
Usability
Allow to selectively ignore mountoptions i. e. nodev
We would like to selectively ignore the mount options on some hosts. (i. e. suid)
Now this seems not to be possible. ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
HTTP service - add optionally part of the response body in Details
Some of our applications have a probing Website which contains the status of the website.
The affected line from the response body with the status should be added to ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Improve Summary of HTTP Service / check_http Website Monitoring
In some cases it is hard to understand why the HTTP Service is going into State Warning / Critical.
The following Summary is giving us three possible candidates ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
State of Check_MK Service on Cluster Hosts
When we have two nodes on a cluster host, and one of the nodes goes down, the Check_MK Service on the cluster host is currently going to state Critical (2.2.0b5). ...
Under consideration
storage ExaGrid monitoring
Hello Checkmk Team,
It would be nice to have ExaGrid storage monitoring in Checkmk. For the moment via snmp it discover only ram, cpu and interfaces. Maybe you can ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Tagging Global Certificates
We have implemented monitoring for AWS EKS and the dashboard is Totally Awesome!
One of the steps include navigating to Global settings / Trusted certificate ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Checkmk Managed Services Edition with Cloud Edition features
I have been testing Cloud Edition Beta and I think it would be a product much more interesting if it could have the same features as Managed Services Edition. I am ...
Planned
Officially support server deployment on Kubernetes
Thanks for sharing https://github.com/Checkmk/kubernetes to the public. But unfortunately, the last commit was pushed to repo years ago. Do we still have some plan to ...
Under consideration
View: in general show all views with sort option drop downs per row like Excel with filter sign
View: in general show all views with sort option drop downs per row like Excel with filter sign:
Show which row is filtered like the picture shows.
This will ...
Under consideration
Dashboards & Views
Set start time of each report content element separate
If a content element is added later to a report, the evaluation starts with the the other content elements. As exampel if i add a content element (from a new check) ...
Under consideration
Reporting
Include customizations of the plugin files into the agent hash
The main reason for this request is the need to re-roll all agents after you changed a plugin or config file, but the agent bakery doesn't realize, that there are new ...
Under consideration
Agent Bakery
Reporting: free selection of storage directory
Please let the decisions the admin who is configuring the report where the report has to be stored.
Otherwise we need a further automation for the report automation ...
Under consideration
automatic creation of the mk-job working directory
We use the wrapper mk-job for cronjob monitoring, in order to monitor these jobs via cmk.
Unfortunately, this uses the directory ...
Under consideration
Integrated & automatic Agent Failover from one site to another (backup-) site
Hello,
in a distributed setting it is currently the case that if a site fails, all the agents attached to it simply disappear in the master gui. There is no built-in ...
Under consideration
Interuption of graphs by activating “Averaging of interfaces” graphs
if “Averaging of interfaces” is activated in the rule "Network interfaces and switch ports" the graphs for normal Bandwith is Interupted ..... better will be that the ...
Under consideration
Graphing
Add proper scale to “Averaging of interfaces” graphs
Missing metric definition for:
In_Avg_15
Out_Avg_15
Predict_In_Avg_15
Predict_Out_Avg_15
Total_Avg_15
activated by the rule under Interfaces
Under consideration
Graphing
Allow menu overwrites in user menu
When using non-local users it would be nice to change the links from the user menu to external source for change of password and 2fa config. Allow to set per login ...
Under consideration
Show Metric for EC Event Check
The EC Event Checks shows the number of matchig Events in the EC. Unfortunately, the count is not shown as a metric or graph.
It is not possible to look back and ...
Grafana SSL Adding option
Hi, please consider adding an option in your grafana plugin to add your Certificate equivalent to the prometheus plugin.
Right now there are quite a lot usecases, ...
Under consideration
Grafana
SNMP Variables in Notifications
it would be helpfull, if fields like "snmp info" could be used in notification scripts
https://forum.checkmk.com/t/snmp-variables-in-notifications/31005
Under consideration
Notifications
Allow to define a custom database port for the MySQL agent check
I'd like to define a tcp port that is not the standard port (tcp/3306) for the MySQL agent check. Right now this is not possible within the CheckMK web-interface. The ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Business Intelligence/Grafana: Add metric for service check
We would like to have a metric for the service check that monitors the state of a BI aggregation.
The metric should be just an integer with values 0 for OK, 1 for ...
Windows Eventlog Monitoring including Level ID
At least the Sharepoint event logs have more levels than just info, warning and error according to ...
Citrix monitoring to also include physical servers
citrix_farm.ps1 currently ignores physical Citrix servers, but the script still could provide valuable information for these hosts, too.
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Passwordstore integration
Make it possible to get passwords from other sources like Secret Servers or Devolutions Password etc. to use in checkmk to access hosts etc.
Under consideration
mk_iptables add IPv6 support (mk_ip6tables)
Hello,
currently it is possible to monitor the local IPv4 firewall (iptables) with the mk_iptables plugin for unwanted modifications. Sadly there is no ip6tables ...
Under consideration
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 ...
Under consideration
Allow to search services by "service details" (fka "long plugin output")
Service searches can be filtered by many things, but the long output/details which are used much more since 2.0 are not filterable.
Please add a search painter for ...
Under consideration
cmk-update-config - Logging to file
The command cmk-update-config logs errors to STDOUT.
To allow for enhanced useability, reportability and so on, a logging to file in addition to the STDOUT should ...
Under consideration
Indicate upcoming downtimes as gray pylon in GUI.
Active downtimes for servers/services are indicated in the GUI with the orange pylon icon and are thus immediately visible to the user.
Planned server/service ...
Under consideration
Update check and, if possible, upgrade from installed MKPs
To have an update check for all installed MKPs and get an announcement in CheckMK if there's a new update available. Maybe from Github as source or from the CheckMK ...
Under consideration
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 ...
Under consideration
Timeperiod in Active Check 'Check SQL Database'
Implement inside the Active check "Check SQL Database" the option to select a timeperiod when you set levels , maybe a service monitoring rule where you can define ...
Under consideration
HPE iLO Support
Add Support to Check iLO from HPE Servers as iDrac from Dell seems to also be integrated
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
REST-API: Dynamic Host Managment
Please add the REST-API method for adding/configuring a DCD connection using any agents like Piggyback
Under consideration
RestAPI
Raritan outlet data
In Werk 15012 the outlet names where added, but no plug power consumption (on Raritan devices that support that)
Consolidated outlet monitoring is essential for ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Extend Active HTTP check with secure auth token usage
More and more applications that provide a metric and/or health endpoint implement token authentication on it. While this works when configured manually in CheckMK ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
OpenMetrics Support as Integration
We would like to be able to use OpenMetrics data from applications in CheckMK.
Under consideration
Integrations
Make mkeventd able to listen on another port
mkeventd is binding itself on UDP/514 & TCP/514 for receiving syslogs.
This value is hard-coded and blocks integration with other syslog daemons.
A config file ...
Under consideration
Log monitoring / Event Console
Monitor NetApp Snapshots
It would be great if I could monitor the snapshots made on a NetApp volume the same way it's done with ESXi/vSphere snapshots: Age of oldest, age of newest, and ...
Under consideration