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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Under consideration
Usability
Unifi Controller
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 ...
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
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Integration with Splunk/ELK in a way out of the box connector.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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. ...
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.
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 ...
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
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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.
Under consideration
RestAPI