Give NagVis a proper facelift

170 votes

NagVis is used by many people/customers. It's a crucial part of Checkmk and it really feels dated and old. NagVis needs some love and more features and a more modern approach like a editor, dynamic creation of maps, lines with more than A to B, d3js?, etc... I can provide more ideas on request.

Under consideration Dashboards & Views Integrations Suggested by: Norman Kühnberger (04 May, '22) • Upvoted: 24 Apr • Comments: 6

Comments: 6

11 May, '22
Daniel Roettgermann
why not adding already all ideas so people can brainstorm together?
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18 May, '22
Daniel Roettgermann
IF! really considering - Please don't just do a facelift!

Integrate it fully into CheckMK
(if you want to keep it alive as a seperate addon, leave the Project open for the ones who want to insert coins - but focus on CMK)

The point is, right now its a tool within a tool and not only by functionality and integration, also by design
You cant properly combine the options from Nagvis with the standard Dashboard functions within CMK.
So at the end I have again, two Dashboards to Design and work on, instead of just one.

If there will be only a facelift, its still a tool in a tool without full integration into CMK

@Norman please provide all ideas!
Much more helpful for people to understand someone else needs
20 May, '22
Paulo
I like NagVis but I suggest you to try Thruk, it does the same but is more easier to operate and the results are much better compared to NagVis.
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25 May, '22
Mike1098
In our domain NagVis is rarely used. The customizable views are generally sufficient.
In past 20 years all projects with kind of Dashboards sometimes with large screens in the IT DPT office disappeared after short time.
The main problem is that at least the Nagvis Dashboards are not dynamic enough and always needs frequent manual intervention to keep them up to date. Thats why they become orphaned quickly.
03 Apr, '23
Raymond Donohoe
Because we monitor small amounts of data at a large number of locations, Nagvis map features are super. I have extended it a fair bit even down to creating my own Gadget which we use to provide Summary Data and observations. Things i would like to see.
- Carry through of the new checkmk look and feel to controls
- Easier Customisation of the Context menu. Apply service groupings, ordering and service filtering just like CheckMK
- Within a Gadget you are limited to the parameters pass to the Gadget and sometimes i wanted access to additional Service fields (e.d. Summary)
- Each instance of a Gadget is a separate call in it own right. So a page with 100 gadgets is 100 URL calls. Nice to drastically reduce this.
- Before i release a map i turn off the header_menu. It then disappears for all users including admin. Maybe i am missing something but the only way to turn it back on it to manually edit the maps cfg file to turn back on the menu
01 Dec, '23
Niklas Pulina Admin
Hello, as a first step, we are planning some minor beautification measures. However, since NagVis is an external component, we can't do a full-fledged facelift. Instead, we are going to evaluate if its core features could be implemented in Checkmk or if there are other alternatives.

Thank you for your understanding.

Warm regards,
Your Checkmk team
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