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Copy graph history and checks to new site when changing a hosts monitored-on site setting

Currently you have to do a new discovery on a host and all historical graph data is left behind on the old site. You can manually grab this data from CLI and safely ...
Suggested by: Martin (18 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 03 Apr Comments: 2
Under consideration Graphing

Show last login also on central site in a distributed setup

It may happen in a distributed setup, that users will log in on a remote instance of Checkmk, only. In this case, the last login is also logged on the remote ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (29 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 03 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Usability User management

Simpler selection of multiple lines using the shift key

I want to be able to select multiple subsequent check boxes in a “from, to” manner by selecting the first and then selecting the last checkbox with the shift key pressed.
Suggested by: Robin (18 May, '22) Upvoted: 25 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Usability

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.
Suggested by: Christian Gehrig (10 May, '22) Upvoted: 11 May Comments: 1
Under consideration Usability

Unifi Controller

Suggested by: David Wayne (26 Apr, '22) Upvoted: 02 May Comments: 1
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Schedule Reports with Conditions

We have created a scheduler report that sends us a report every day with all servers that have “disk problems”, if they are WARN or Critical. This works fine, but if ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (28 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 03 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Reporting

Define user roles and permissions per host group and/or setup folders

This allows to have admin permissions for one set of hosts and viewer permissions on a different set. A set can be defined per host group and/or per setup folder
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (16 May, '22) Upvoted: 25 Apr Comments: 2
Under consideration User management

Allow preserving time range in graph when added to a dashboard/report

Usually, the configuration of a time series graph to a dashboard is done in the corresponding dashboard element. A user needs to define, which time range such a graph ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (29 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 03 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Dashboards & Views Graphing

BI Aggregations: add/enable sorting on state column

We want the possibility to sort on the state of the BI Aggregations, i.e. put the CRITICAL states on top.
Suggested by: Wim Vandermeeren (07 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 03 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration BI

TOTP codes for 2FA

Two factor authentication was added in version 2.1 but it lacked support for TOTP codes / authenticator apps. It would be a nice feature to have QR codes to work with ...
Suggested by: Joseph (07 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration

RegEx for "Host labels" in Filters

At Filter the possibility to fill "Host labels" with RegEx to search/filter with it. Currently, there is still this error message "Labels need to be in the format ...
Suggested by: Chrsitian Gehrig (22 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 05 Apr Comments: 6
Under consideration

Allow the definition of n months back in time as a considered time range

Currently, it is possible to select a time range in various pages/views, to display data. E.g. in a report, one may consider values of this month and values of last ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (29 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 01 Jun Comments: 2
Under consideration Reporting Usability

Clear logwatch logs via WebAPI

In some cases the ability of clearing logs from logwatch in bulk would be useful via WebAPI. The opportunity to delete files on the filesystem is espacially in ...
Suggested by: Tobias Wurzbacher (26 Jan) Upvoted: 24 Apr Comments: 1

Pass Checkmk host tags and labels to Opsgenie

Pass Checkmk host tags and labels to Opsgenie as extra properties when the notification plugin is used
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (18 May, '22) Upvoted: 23 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications

Do not interpolate missing data in graphs

Today, missing data of a check is filled with the last known check result. This can be misleading. Please show a gap in the graph in case of missing data. Make the ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (02 May, '22) Upvoted: 09 May Comments: 1
Under consideration Graphing

Settings for opening links from the service description (open in new tab or in the same tab)

Currently, links in a service description are always attempted to open in the active frame. It would be nice if there was an option to set links from certain services ...
Suggested by: Dominik Meyer (03 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 03 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Usability

Business Intelligence: Enable exporting a BI into a report containing all problematic nodes/leafs

Currently, it is not possible to export a BI into a readable/usable PDF. In case, a BI has one or more problems, the PDF should contain the problematic nodes and ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (27 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 11 May Comments: 0
Under consideration Availability / SLA BI Reporting

Mainline YUM plugin from the Checkmk Exchange

I propose to include the YUM Plugin 9 developed by Henri Wahl into the Checkmk officially supported plugins. As he stated just days ago 3 he is low on time to ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (28 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 08 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Authors column for Downtime history view

This does not seem to be possible right now (either with checkmk 1.6 or 2.0), since “Downtimes” view does show authors, but only for ongoing and future downtimes and ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (29 May, '22) Upvoted: 07 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Usability

Monitor for underutilized resources

Especially in cloud environments, new resources are quickly added, but often times not removed quickly enough. Often times, requested resources (i.e. EC2 instances) ...
Suggested by: Elias (25 May, '22) Upvoted: 08 Feb Comments: 5
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Extend the "Filesystem discover" rule with more filesystems or/and add regex filters

Extend the "Filesystem discover" rule to exclude more filesystems like Overlay Filesystems from Kubernetes Nodes or allow adding regex filters. In our Kubernetes ...
Suggested by: Ulysses (04 May, '22) Upvoted: 07 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Integration with Splunk/ELK in a way out of the box connector.

Suggested by: David Wayne (02 May, '22) Upvoted: 02 May Comments: 2
Under consideration

Add Label/Tag if Windows Service or Systemd Service is doscovered

In the process discovery rule you can add a label to the host when the searched process is found. It would be very helpful if we could do the same in the Windows ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (02 Feb) Upvoted: 04 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Show graphs in range of its delta like Grafana

If you have graphs with high numbers (for example large filesystems) you cannot see detailed changes by default. See checkmk and grafana graph of the same metric in ...
Suggested by: Torben Ubechel (22 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 07 Jan Comments: 1
Under consideration Graphing

Support And/OR/NOT for Downtimes and Acknowledgements

Sometimes a user want to have a view, which is matching different groups. For example, a view listing all hosts/services, that are currently in a downtime or that are ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (19 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 22 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Dashboards & Views

Replace date time entry for scheduled downtimes with a proper date/time picker

The current implementation to enter a date and a time for a scheduled downtime is a list of fields. Please replace it with a proper date/time selector
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (22 May, '22) Upvoted: 01 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration Usability

deactivating a rule after reaching end of life.

Hallo, it would be helpful to to activate a rule for a month or another time period. After reaching „end of lifetime“ the rule should be deactivated automatically. ...
Suggested by: Ralf Prengel (07 May, '22) Upvoted: 10 Feb Comments: 1
Under consideration Usability

Renaming of folders should rename the internal folder names too

When renaming a folder in WATO the "old" internal name remains. This leads to problems when accessing devices to folders in background programs.
Suggested by: Ralf Spenner (13 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 24 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration Usability

Allow automated export of a View/Graph as PNG or PDF

It's possible to export a view or time series graph as PNG or PDF directly in the GUI. But this approach is not scriptable, e.g. through the Rest-API. In some ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (29 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 18 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration RestAPI

BI: Indicate stale services in BI View

Currently, the BI view does not indicate that data is coming from stale services, which can lead to the wrong assumption about the state of a service
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (29 May, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration BI

Move multiple rules to another folder

Currently, if I have to move a rule, I have to edit each rule and select a new folder. Can we make this operation simpler: - Enable the checkbox at the beginning to ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (22 May, '22) Upvoted: 19 Apr Comments: 10
Under consideration Usability

Delivering jq within the firmware of the appliance

It would be handy to have jq on the appliances to print the bigger json files.
Suggested by: Marcus Klein (05 May, '22) Upvoted: 24 Apr Comments: 6
Under consideration Appliance

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
Under consideration

Setup: show error message if rule changes don't get saved

Since Tribe29 considers this a feature and not a bug, I'm placing it here at their request: If multiple rules in the same file are edited by different users or in ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (18 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 19 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration Usability

Show affected rules, if deleting a host folder

If rules are assigned directly to a folder, there is currently no chance to see these rules, by navigating in the host folder structure. While deleting a folder, it ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (19 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 10 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration

With pending changes, allow to activate / discard a selection

When there are changes, now I only have the option to either activate or discard them all. Even if there are changes by another user. It would be nice if I could ...
Suggested by: Louis Wevers (19 May, '22) Upvoted: 10 Feb Comments: 1
Under consideration Usability

"Match Folder" should be "Match Folder(s)" in Notification Rules definition

A business unit can have an application that is hosted across multiple sites. So for a given application, the Notification Rule configuration should point to the ...
Suggested by: Paul Hernandez (01 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 06 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Make Host searchable and visible for directly assigned contacts of a service

In everyday life, customers talk about servers and applications. That's why most customers tend to search for a hostname or alias in the GUI rather than for a service ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (30 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 20 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration Usability

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 ...
Suggested by: Ruben (05 May) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 4
Planned

Colored folders with icons

When using the main directory folder or subfolders it would be very nice to create colored folders with icon support. It makes it easier to see different folders.
Suggested by: Clemens (16 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 25 Apr Comments: 3
Under consideration Usability

Use all data from hardware/software inventory in Views/Dashboards

Today when creating a field from HW/SW inventory only a subset of sections are available. I would like to show, for example data from physical chassis on a router in ...
Suggested by: Andy (12 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 28 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Dashboards & Views

Appliance: Support the configuration of network routes

Customer needs to define different routes to access certain networks or devices. Unfortunately, these routes cannot be configured in the UI and are removed after an ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (24 May, '22) Upvoted: 16 Nov, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Appliance

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 ...
Suggested by: Gerd Stolz (14 Apr) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration

Extend fileinfo/mk_filestats feature set to monitor directory/file permissions

While the current fileinfo and mk_filestats implementation allows way more options we actually need, we are missing one feature that could (hopefully) be easily ...
Suggested by: Peter Fuchs (17 Jan) Upvoted: 03 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Checks&Agents

Improve handling of files with date or numbers in Logwatch Event Console Forwarding

There are many cases where log files contain a date or a sequence number in the name. Unfortunately, the "Logwatch Event Console Forwarding" service does not ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (17 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 08 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Setup: Highlight not matching hosts in rule conditions for better identification

Hosts that don't match because they are misspelled or no longer exist are difficult to identify. Please highlight not matching host in the rule condition so that ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (13 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 08 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Usability

Integrate "ntfy" for push notifications in RAW Edition

https://ntfy.sh/ - Send push notifications to your phone or desktop via PUT/POST ntfy (pronounce: notify) is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It ...
Suggested by: LTC (07 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 09 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Event Console: Suppress notifications in case a service is in downtime

Similar to the rule to suppress a notification in case a host is in downtime, it should also possible to suppress a notification, if a service is in downtime. ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (22 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 14 Apr Comments: 0

Make Linux agent configurable regarding waitmax time for livestatus queries

The Linux agent automatically detects CMK sites at the local system and runs several livestatus queries against these. For those queries, it has configured a maximum ...
Suggested by: Marsellus Wallace (23 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 16 Feb Comments: 5
Under consideration

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.
Suggested by: PaulR282 (29 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 18 Apr Comments: 3
Under consideration RestAPI