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elaboration of: check-httpv2: Certificate validity by age (ignore validation against RootCA)
Please add an option to check_httpv2 that checks only the certificate validity period,
without validating the certificate chain against the local trusted RootCA ...
check expire date of vmware licence
can we have option to see how much time we have left from vmware licence on esxi host, like expiration date.
RobotMK - Simplify deployment for Windows and Linux
Provide default or recommended options for the required fields needed when creating a bakery rule for RobotMK. This is intended to simplify the deployment of those ...
Apache ActiveMQ Support for active/passive Cluster
Sometimes Apache ActiveMQ are operatet as a Active/Passive Cluster where one queue is not working. The Check_MK Service is in this state WARN. There could be an ...
Add native Commvault Backup & Recovery (Command Center) monitoring (Jobs, Storage/Capacity, Health)
Please add native monitoring support for Commvault Backup & Recovery via Command Center / REST APIs.
Key things to monitor in Checkmk:
Jobs: active jobs + last ...
MySQL plugin: add socket detection by using ss and mysqld
Please enhance the finding part of the plugin to find the socket file by using netstat and mysqld:
ss -ln | grep mysql
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 38377 ...
Please add: dnf update information like the YUM Plugin: YUM Update Check from: Henri Wahl
Please add: dnf update information like the YUM Plugin: YUM Update Check from: Henri Wahl
The Package Information and the reboot requirement information's, etc. are ...
Option to split Linux Memory check into individual services (RAM, Swap, Committed)
I would like to propose a new discovery feature for the native Linux memory check (mem_linux) that allows administrators to optionally split memory monitoring into ...
Activate Changes: split Dynamic host management changes from normal changes
Activate Changes: split Dynamic host management changes (example Docker/Podman/Kubernetes, etc.) from normal changes
The reason is that we have to verify the normal ...
Event Console - Rule Pack for Checkmk Server and Relay Logs
Create a built-in rule pack shipped with Event Console and proper Bakery rules with the most important log files of Checkmk Server. This would be useful because once ...
Add comment field when deleting objects (e.g. hosts) for better traceability
To improve traceability and accountability, users should enter a comment or reference when deleting any object in Checkmk, especially hosts.
In many environments, ...
Send Livestatus Request only to sites enabled by user
At the moment a livestatus request is send to all sites. This could take some time in large enviroments. But for some users it is not necessary to work with all ...
Dashboard Visualization: Service overview widget same as hosts overview with hexagon panels
Sometimes in bigger environments it would be really helpfull to see all services of the same type over a filtered set of hosts as a panel of hexagons. Our use case is ...
LDAP: In Distributed/MSP Setups, Test AD/LDAP Connections on the Effective Remote Site
In distributed and MSP environments, it is currently not possible to test the effective LDAP connection of a remote site from the central site. This becomes ...
Check certificates: FTP StartTLS functionality
At present, it is not possible to monitor certificates of an FTP proxy whose connection is initialised using StartTLS FTP.
Although the certificate check offers ...
Create custom Nagios plugins in the GUI
Ability to create custom Nagios plugin scripts in the GUI that will be tested and added right away as an mkp package to simplify whats missing in Checkmk from the ...
Automatic deletion of SAML Users in CheckMK
If a user cannot be authenticated from the IDP, can the user be deleted out of CheckMK automatically. If not at the time, after X amount of days after they last ...
Under consideration
Reporting: Change the UI for creating / editing reports so it not always snaps to start
Currently if you create / edit a multi page report it's a pain to do as every time you add / edit / delete an element the report UI snaps back to start. So it's a big ...
Dashboards: Add fixed or top-pinned areas on responsive layout (2.5)
On responsive Dashboards the Widgets get auto positioned / aligned / so it fits different screen sizes. This is a great improvement. But it would make sense to have a ...
API for gobalconfig
It would be great if it is possible to set parameter in the globalconfig for an supported way (without editing mk files)
AIX - State NFS Mount
When an nfs mount becomes stale it makes the agent wait for that information for a long time on AIX systems: ...
Under consideration
Add time picker to the downtime presets
I don’t want monitoring to start in the middle of the night, forcing me to adjust the time repeatedly whenever I use downtime presets (e.g., Today, This Week, etc.). ...
Missing Progress Feedback for Long-Running Filter Operations
When applying filters on host lists, event views, or other filterable data, and the filter takes several seconds to execute, there is no visual indication that the ...
Make Downtime Presets configurable
Currently downtime preset button times default to 12 AM (e.g. "today" downtimes the service until 12AM the next day). So if we downtime a service, because we can not ...
Option to Select Between Current and Legacy Email Notification Template
The current email notification template is more elaborate but not necessarily more readable. Some teams prefer the simpler, more compact layout of the previous ...
Add "Negate" option to the "Downtime comment (regex)" view filter
Currently, the "Downtime comment (regex)" filter in custom views does not provide a Negate option, unlike several other view filters in Checkmk.
This makes it ...
Allow placing the Checkmk logo at the bottom of HTML notification emails
Hello,
I would like to suggest a small improvement to the "Parameters for Email (HTML)" notification method.
Currently, the generated HTML emails always place ...
Notification Rule - Allow Rule Pack as a condition
When defining notification rules based on Event Console alerts currently its not possible to define a rule using a rule pack as a condition. You can define individual ...
Show acknowledgement in bulk notifications
At the moment when you receive a bulk notification e-mail for acknowledgements, at the top all services are shown with their previous state and current state and a ...
Allow selective piggyback data to be sync across customers in Ultimate with MT
Currently the implemented piggyback hub for syncing piggyback data across sites is limited for logical reasons on Ultimate with MT to only allow syncing data between ...
General Search: example: LOGWATCH: show search string, log line of found search string in output
General Search: example: LOGWATCH: show search string and log line of the found search string in the output
In general a FeatureRequest for all search functions ...
Event Console - View latest message from any given rule
When working in Event Console we need to be switching tabs because in Event Console there is no options to quickly open all messages from a given rule. We can check ...
Option to save process snapshots during high cpu and memory utilization
Please add an option "Save ps snapshot" to the CPU and Memory checks which saves the actual ps section in the details.
Use Case
During periods of high server ...
Under consideration
Improve transparency of “Use new service names” setting
The global setting “Use new service names” currently lacks transparency and makes it difficult to understand its impact.
For each listed check plugin, it is not ...
MSSQL - Domain based credentials
MSSQL Bakery rules don`t support the usage of domain credentials. Plugin supports that using a custom configuration file.
Under consideration
allow the Relay to act as a Gateway for Web checks, Agent and automatic Agent Updater
it would be nice to be able to use use the new Relay as a Gateway like system that is able to forward automatic Agent updates for Agents and eg. Webchecks inside a ...
Convert Discovery Rules to Enforced Rules (and vice versa)
In some cases, it is necessary to convert a regular Service Monitoring Rule into an Enforced Services Rule, or the other way around. This becomes especially ...
Lower threshold for PoE consumption on switches
There's a check for PoE consumption on switches, but it only has WARN and CRITICAL *upper* limits.
We have had several occurences where the PoE part of a switch died ...
Haproxy: session-related metrics
HAProxy checks currently expose only the session rate metric. The agent output already contains additional metrics, so it would be great to expose more of them. ...
Decouple site name from Linux system user name
separate sitenames from usernames; allow site to run under generic usernames, do not mandate username to match sitename. this will allow more flexible deployment and ...
Summary: Improve Handling & Messaging During Checkmk Maintenance
During Checkmk backend updates (e.g. stopping a site), users are frequently confronted with red error messages such as “Unhandled exception”.
This creates the ...
Extend the Backup feature (GUI)
At the moment it is not possible to configure how many backups should be kept. That would be a nice feature. At the moment we need to run a cronjob that delets old ...
GUI: Temporarily show or hide columns in a view without cloning or editing
Add a function to temporarily show or hide columns in the current view (similar to adding/removing filters in filter menu), without having to edit the view each time. ...
improve UX in search results by adopting stylesheet
Reproduce in Checkmk Raw Edition 2.5.0-2025.11.04:
Search: "Check_MK Agent"
Search result of service and label e.g. "Local site cmk fedora-dev-host-212" are not ...
Edit ID of BI Rules/Packages
Hello Checkmk Team and Checkmk Community,
some Versions ago (i'm not sure if it was during 1.X or still exists in 2.X) it was possible to edit the ID of a BI ...
Reporting: Configurable sort order for hosts returned by subreports in the Reporting module
When using subreports to include hosts in a parent report (e.g. "Switch details" subreport called from a template-based bundle), the hosts are currently returned in ...
HTML sanitization option for host/service outputs
To make the use of HTML in check output safer and more controlled, the existing Escape HTML rule should be extended with an additional option called Sanitize HTML. ...
check_httpv2: Option to Display Website Content in Case of Check Failure
In many situations, it would be helpful to view the exact content displayed on the website when a check fails (similar to the --show-body option in check_http). ...
Cato Networks SD-WAN Monitoring
Cato Networks SD-WAN Monitoring needed to CheckMK, Cato has good status page https://status.catonetworks.com/ but for networ monitoring needed to own infra ...
Local checks: Cache info in summary is too verbose
The current text is really verbose and when many of them are shown on the same page it’s really hard to read them
E.g.
"Cache generated 9 hours 53 minutes ago, ...