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78 votes

"Fake check results" should create hard state to test notifications

"Fake check results" should create hard state. This would allow to test the notifications

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (30 May, '22) • Upvoted: 23 Mar • Comments: 8

Under consideration Notifications

58 votes

Use the nice modern Graphs from the GUI in Reports and Notifications

The HTML mail notification and CMK reports still use the old graphs instead of the nice modern graphs displayed in the CMK 2.x GUI.

Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (18 May, '22) • Upvoted: 21 Mar • Comments: 4

Under consideration Notifications Reporting

24 votes

Display labels in notification email

We would like to be able to reference a host label's value using the $someHostLabelKeyHere$ substitution approach similar to how we are able to reference ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (16 May, '22) • Upvoted: 17 Mar • Comments: 3

Under consideration Notifications

24 votes

Notification statistics Dashboard

* who got notified how often and when (heatmap with hour of day) * filter by notifications contcact and then get a histogram of number of notifications ( e.g. to ...

Suggested by: Mimimi (04 May, '22) • Upvoted: 08 Jan • Comments: 2

Under consideration Notifications

21 votes

Notifications: Add the condition "Match service details" (former "long output")

The possibility to display additional output data of a service in a multi line column is used much more in most recent versions of Checkmk. This column is called ...

Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (22 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 3

Under consideration Notifications

21 votes

BI: Get detailed info in notifications

It would be nice to get detailed info in notifications based on a bi aggregation. For example: If the BI aggregation “Mail” gets critical and the user gets a ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (28 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 29 Mar • Comments: 0

Under consideration BI Notifications

19 votes

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

17 votes

Show downtime comments in notification email

As a user I want to have the option to show the downtime comment in a notification email

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (26 Apr, '22) • Upvoted: 10 Nov, '22 • Comments: 2

Implemented Notifications

17 votes

"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

15 votes

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: 05 Dec, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

14 votes

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: 07 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Log monitoring / Event Console Notifications

14 votes

Alert handlers - show condition in alert_handler list view

Please show the configured conditions in the Alert handler rule list in the same way as you show them in the notification rules list. It is extremely time ...

Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (11 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 19 Feb • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

14 votes

Make the timescale of attached graphs in notification mails selectable

Currently there is no way to select the timescale of graphs attached in notification mails. Currently it is fixed at 24 hours, which makes fast happening metric ...

Suggested by: Franz Haider (04 May, '22) • Upvoted: 08 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

13 votes

Host Tag & Label Updates to Email Notifications

I appreciate that within the Setup view of a host, I can visually see of my Host Tags with both the TagGroupID:TagID easily visible. With the "Tags of Host" option ...

Suggested by: Elli Rothenberg (03 Oct, '22) • Upvoted: 17 Feb • Comments: 1

Under consideration Notifications

12 votes

"Exclude Host Groups" in Notification Rules

Add a feature to notification rules to exclude a host group. Currently, only include is possible. For service groups exclude and include is available (including regexp)

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (26 Apr, '22) • Upvoted: 08 Jan • Comments: 2

Under consideration Notifications

11 votes

Send Email Notifications with Amazon SES

Provide a new notification script, which sends email notifications via Amazon SES. This makes the setup of Checkmk easier, as it requires only a https connection ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (16 Oct, '22) • Upvoted: 20 Mar • Comments: 1

Under consideration Notifications

11 votes

Add a generic plugin for sending notifications to a Rest-API endpoint.

Most notification tools support a REST-API endpoints to submit a notification. As these APIs provide a structured way to post information, a generic notification ...

Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (19 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 08 Sep, '22 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Notifications RestAPI

10 votes

Restrict the permission to create notifications on specific folders

It should be possible to create notifications only for hosts located in folders to which the user is also authorized. In other words, it should not only be possible ...

Suggested by: Hardy (20 May, '22) • Upvoted: 26 Sep, '22 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Notifications User management

10 votes

Provide an analysis for thresholds and notifications on a user base

As a regular user, I occasionally want to fetch the following information: * For which hosts/service am I responsible, and what are the conditions for getting a ...

Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (22 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 27 Dec, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications User management

9 votes

Notification: Update a Jira ticket on changed status

A service has a WARN state and a Jira issue is created. If this service change state from WARN to CRIT the existing issue does not become updated and the users of ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (22 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 1

Under consideration Notifications

9 votes

Allow notifications without a user context

Currently, each notification is expecting a user context. This is either given by a contact group and its members or through a specific assignment of a user/an email ...

Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (22 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 08 Feb • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

8 votes

Update "Integrate Opsgenie with Checkmk" on Opsgenie for API V2 Alerts

The Opsgenie Notification Plugin from Trieb29 uses the Opsgenie Alert API V2. Unfortunately, the existing CheckMK API integration in Opsgenie only supports events ...

Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (29 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 10 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

8 votes

Support macro $OMD_SITE$ in notification display name or subject

The macro $OMD_SITE$ works only in the mail body of ASCII mails. It does not expand in the "Display Name" nor "Subject for host notifications" or "Subject for service ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (24 May, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

7 votes

Manually trigger notifications to create case in a ITSM tool

Some customers have a workflow, which does not automatically create a ticket in an ITSM tool for any issue found. Instead, the admin analyze the issue reported by ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (23 May, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 1

Under consideration Notifications

7 votes

Easier way to customize the css/html of notification emails

Using templates instead of css and html hardcoded inside the email notification script would allow easier changes to the look and feel of the emails. For exemple, ...

Suggested by: Geof (21 Sep, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

7 votes

Notifications: Show per service each notification rule definition with all parameters for all users

Our customers ask every week what are the notification definitions for service x or y. Hence it would be perfect if the user is able to see the notification ...

Suggested by: JPH (02 Sep, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

6 votes

Notification: Option: Using Service summary / Service output as trigger

Please implement a notification parameter in the notification rule which enables the possibility to trigger the notification based on the service summary/service ...

Suggested by: JPH (10 Feb) • Upvoted: 21 Feb • Comments: 1

Under consideration Notifications

6 votes

Option to stop further notification rules running after this rule is triggered

Currently, all valid notification rules for a particular event trigger. This makes setting up a catch-all rule very complicated, as you have to exclude all the ...

Suggested by: Robert Masters (23 May, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 1

Under consideration Notifications

6 votes

Add NOTIFY_SERVICETAGS environment variable to notification (scripts)

Service Tags should be available in notification scripts via an environment variable. Similar to Host Tags (NOTIFY_HOSTTAGS), the name could be NOTIFY_SERVICETAGS

Suggested by: Thomas Schmitz (10 Nov, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

6 votes

Messages Send by Notification configuration Rule

Option to display how many messages have been sent via a notification rule.in the last 24h

Suggested by: Andreas Fineske (09 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

5 votes

Form validation in notification config

The notification conditions allow configurations that do not work as a user might expect. For instance, it is possible to set "Match services" while also configuring ...

Suggested by: Thierry T. (22 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

3 votes

auto-acknowledge alert if notification is successful

We use the checkmk native Opsgenie plugin. This plugin is only one-way into Opsgenie. There isn't a way for Opsgenie to ACK the alert. It would be nice if I ...

Suggested by: Jesse Johnson (09 Dec, '22) • Upvoted: 09 Jan • Comments: 2

Under consideration Notifications

3 votes

Limit notifications for use to hosts with the user in the contact group

A user should only get notifications, if he is in the contact group of the host

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (30 May, '22) • Upvoted: 30 Jun, '22 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Notifications

3 votes

Send notification summary for hosts as notification

As an admin, I would like to see a summary of all services of a host which has triggered a notification like this: ------ Time stamp Servername, IP, Servicename ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (24 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 30 Jun, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

3 votes

Notifications: User macros in the label field for Jira

Please enable macros in the label field of the Jira notification

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (22 May, '22) • Upvoted: 22 Jun, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

2 votes

better ServiceNow Incident Plugin

We use Rest API to create incidents. We noticed that Checkmk offers a Plugin for ServiceNow Incidents,BUT we couldn´t find fields like "Assignment Group" ...

Suggested by: Martin Fallant (02 Jan) • Upvoted: 09 Jan • Comments: 1

Under consideration Notifications

2 votes

The ability to have a single rule have the option for multiple Webhook-URLs in a notification rule

Multiple slack channels to be notified when a rule matches. e.g across the multi tenant organization, a switch issue should trigger a slack message to multiple ...

Suggested by: Chris (24 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

2 votes

Notification: GLPI Ticket System

Adding GLPI directly via WATO.

Suggested by: Florian Krieger (28 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 01 Jul, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

1 votes

Add an "Additional Payload" field to all third-party notification engines

Currently all the third-party notification engines provide a minimal interface to the various services (e.g. PagerDuty, ServiceNow, etc). This change would allow ...

Suggested by: Robert Masters (11 Nov, '22) • Upvoted: 11 Nov, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications

1 votes

Adding Support for "BusinessService", "ServiceOffering" and "ConfigurationItem" in ServiceNow

For our incident management we need to fill out the fields "BusinessService", "ServiceOffering" and "ConfigurationItem" in ServiceNow. The checkmk plugin for ...

Suggested by: Andreas (07 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Jul, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Notifications