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Add metrics to logwatch and events check

The service checks "Log *" and "Events *" show the number of critical and warn messages in their plugin output. It would be nice to have metrics that record these ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (29 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 14 Sep Comments: 0

EC: Reset Hit Counter per Rule / RulePack

Currently, you can only reset the hit counter for EC rules globally for all EC rules on all sites at once. If you make changes to EC rules or if you want to see if ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (10 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 03 Sep Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Align behavior for uploaded MIB files in the web frontend and in the local directory structure

During the upload of MIB files on the web frontend, these files are converted to python (and pyc) files. But there is another way to provide MIB files for the event ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (12 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 31 Aug Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Windows Eventlog Monitoring including Level ID

At least the Sharepoint event logs have more levels than just info, warning and error according to ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (21 Apr) Upvoted: 31 Aug Comments: 0

Event Rule criteria "Host Tags"

In the Event Rule it is possible to set a matching criteria for the host name "Match host". We would appreciate the possibility to use the "host tag" like in the ...
Suggested by: Leandro Zampieri (11 Aug) Upvoted: 25 Aug Comments: 6
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

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 ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (17 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 13 Jul Comments: 1

AWS Cloudwatch Alarms into Event Console

Currently, the AWS CloudWatch Service is a single service. So you only get one notification for the first alert, but not for any further alert as long as the first ...
Suggested by: Fabian (04 May, '22) Upvoted: 21 Jun Comments: 2

Google Cloud: capture log events

As a GCP user, I want to have Checkmk ingesting all log events and allow rules to process them
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (18 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 19 Jun Comments: 0

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 ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (24 Apr) Upvoted: 06 Jun Comments: 0

Logwatch: Windows Event Log: Auto-Remove Log entries after X days

We use the checkmk agent on Windows Server. The agent has the logwatch plugin builtin, to monitor the Windows event logs. That is a good plugin, but it need some ...
Suggested by: Thomas (23 Jan) Upvoted: 09 May Comments: 3
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Logwatch: Delete multiple logfiles in one operation

Allow deletion of multiple log files, selected by the user in one delete operation
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (26 Apr, '22) Upvoted: 09 May Comments: 1

mk_logwatch: support muliline logs

More and more applications write multiline logs and it can happen that the search pattern for relevant log lines is spread over several lines. Therefor ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (09 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 02 May Comments: 4

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 ...
Suggested by: qb (04 Apr) Upvoted: 02 May Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

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

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

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

setting for change the default SNMP trap port of the site

Several sites in the same Check_MK server cannot receive SNMP traps because only one of them has got actually the real pipe from 162/UDP.
Suggested by: JDamian (28 Feb) Upvoted: 28 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Improve Filtering Windows Eventlog Entries on the Agent Side

So far, using regular expressions is only possible for text logfiles. It would be great if regex filtering would also be possible for Windows Eventlog messages.
Suggested by: Lars Getwan (04 May, '22) Upvoted: 08 Jan Comments: 0

Add time period configuration for „Expect regular messages“ in the event console

Example: during 9am-5pm expect this messeage every x minutes
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (24 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 07 Jan Comments: 2

Checkmk Agent: Consistant Logging with all rules and logs (INFO,WARNING,CRITICAL,DEBUG)

Currently the logging is not consistent (the same) in all the agents, parameters, rules and logs. Recommended is the standard logging: INFO,WARNING,CRITICAL,DEBUG ...
Suggested by: JPH (14 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 07 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Event Console: Show rule misses for performance analysis

To optimize the EC rules, you need to look as tries (or misses). Due to skip rules, the processing is otherwise not easily recognizable The ties or misses should be ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (22 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 07 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Collect and process Kubernetes log output

As a Kubernetes user, I want Checkmk to collect and process the K8s log output
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (18 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 13 Dec, '22 Comments: 0

EC: Windows eventlog facility

Please make Windows eventlog entries clearly identifiable in the Event Console by adding a dedicated enum as facility
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (09 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 24 Nov, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Show/Hide context and All Logfiles as buttons in logfile view

I'm using the "Show/Hide context" and "All Logfiles" function constantly when going through the logs. It would be great if they were in the button row together with ...
Suggested by: Christian (14 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 14 Sep, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Support SNMP traps with hex encoded string in the event console

According to the SNMP spec, some text in SNMP traps can be ASCII encoded. If such text contains e.g. an IP address, it cannot be used to correlate text. Please ...
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (11 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 26 Aug, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Event Console: Reset event lifetime

Currently, the lifetime is started once the event goes to OPEN. Reset this lifetime for any COUNTING. This allows to combine multiple similar events
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (22 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 22 Jul, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console

Support distribution of new MIBs via the MKP mechanism

Support the distribution of MIBs using MKPs and not just as ZIP files
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (12 May, '22) Upvoted: 27 Jun, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console