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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Google Cloud: capture log events
As a GCP user, I want to have Checkmk ingesting all log events and allow rules to process them
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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
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 ...
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. ...
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
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.
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.
Add time period configuration for „Expect regular messages“ in the event console
Example:
during 9am-5pm expect this messeage every x minutes
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 ...
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 ...
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
EC: Windows eventlog facility
Please make Windows eventlog entries clearly identifiable in the Event Console by adding a dedicated enum as facility
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 ...
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 ...
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
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
Under consideration
Log monitoring / Event Console