Enter your own Checkmk ideas or vote for existing ones

In order to continually improve Checkmk, we're looking for your ideas. They provide valuable input to our roadmap discussions and allow us to contact you directly for more in-depth discussions or during development. A few tips:

  • Concisely describing the problem rather than the solution will help other users understand and relate to your idea.
  • An idea should be easy to understand. This will increase your chances of getting votes.
  • Be as specific as possible. Knowing exactly what to expect when voting on an idea makes it a much better experience for all of us when it is adapted later in Checkmk.

Further information can be found in this guide. If you have any questions, please send an email to ideas@checkmk.com.

Using let's encrypt certificates for CheckMK Appliance

Running CheckMK on a native Linux Server it's well described to implement automated Let's encrypt automatic certificate change: ...
Suggested by: Jan (06 Feb) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

More Options for submitting new firmware or checkmk versions

Most IT employees working remotly via VPN nowadays. Sharing this connection with othr people does make it to a bottleneck for large file transfers. Therefore ...
Suggested by: Jan Stephan (09 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 16 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

Nutanix OVA

Add support for Nutanix AHV for the OVA
Suggested by: Bryan (26 Aug, '25) Upvoted: 28 Oct, '25 Comments: 2
Under consideration Appliance

Checkmk Appliance should use NTPS for time sync

Hello, all our customers belong to KRITIS environment and we are called to secure all network communication. Also the ntp synchronisation. For that purpose we ask ...
Suggested by: Gerald Amrhein (19 Aug, '25) Upvoted: 23 Nov, '25 Comments: 1
Under consideration Appliance

Add dry-ran functionality to the appliance

Before installing a new version via the web interface, it would be ideal to have a dry-run button that checks the current configuration for possible ...
Suggested by: Mario Fellner (20 May, '25) Upvoted: 02 Jun, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

Kerberos support for active checks (SMBCLIENT and HTTP)

In modern and secure environments, NTLM is no longer supported in some cases; therefore, support for Kerberos authentication is an important component. The ...
Suggested by: Mario Fellner (14 May, '25) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 3
Under consideration Appliance

Nagios plugins and ca-certificates.crt

We found that a Nagios plugin like check_ldap uses /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt instead of $OMD_ROOT/var/ssl/ca-certificates.crt. This makes it hart to query ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (28 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 28 Apr, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance Setup

Appliance: Enable more than one intermediate certificate

Yesterday I tried to upload a certificate chain with two intermediate certificates into the appliance. Only one of them landed in /etc/ssl/localcerts/apache-chain.crt ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (28 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 28 Feb, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

Add label "cmk/check_mk_appliance:yes" to Checkmk vanilla agent

Every agent should add a label "cmk/check_mk_appliance:yes" if running on an virtual/hardware appliance. This label is needed i.e. for filtering in hybrid environments.
Suggested by: Christian Wirtz (03 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 19 Apr, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

Cluster-IP for outgoing appliance traffic

For incoming traffic to an appliance cluster you can use the cluster ip (e.g. traps), but for outgoing traffic the active node ip address is used. This is annoying ...
Suggested by: Dennis (05 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 09 Dec, '25 Comments: 8
Under consideration Appliance

Replay: Make 'omd cleanup' available on Checkmk appliance

Checkmk appliances allow a very intuitive management of Checkmk-versions. Versions can be uploaded via the webinterface or background automation (although this ...
Suggested by: Ingo Hambrock (24 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 27 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

Firmware and Checkmk Version Upload and Upgrade via Commandline

I wand to upgrae my Appliances via commandline to reduce the uploading time. i need only one transer then to the customer site via WAN. Internal scp onsite is more ...
Suggested by: Gerald Amrhein (23 Jun, '23) Upvoted: 03 Feb Comments: 3
Under consideration Appliance

Appliance: Option to change keyboard layout of Appliance console

The Checkmk Appliance console should offer an option to change the keyboard layout. This would make it easier to enter and re-enter passwords with special characters ...
Suggested by: Niklas Pulina (11 May, '23) Upvoted: 21 Aug, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

(Virtual) Appliance WebGUI Agent TLS / Backery Configuration

Register Appliance Agents via WebGUI for Agent Backery and TLS Communication
Suggested by: Jan (08 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 08 Jan, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

appliance ssh management

Hallo, I ve to configure a ssh based check. https://github.com/righter83/checkmk-synology-activebackup The appliance has no option to configue ssh-keys using the ...
Suggested by: Ralf Prengel (04 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 04 Jul, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

Add central administration option to the appliance webconf

Atm the situation does not allow central administration of appliances (virt/rack). If you happen to have a config change, you need to address every appliance ...
Suggested by: thomml (22 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 08 Dec, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

Appliance: Enable management through Rest-API or command line

In a modern and high automated environment, I want to be able to configure my appliances also in an automated way. This could be done via Rest-API or by providing ...
Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (28 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 18 May Comments: 4
Under consideration Appliance

Ability to Upload Firmware Updates to the Appliance before Stopping Sites

I would like to be able to Upload the Firmware Updates to the Appliance before Stopping the sites, because we have locations with really slow Internet ...
Suggested by: Florian Krieger (20 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 08 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

Ansible support for the checkmk appliance

It would be great to have "official" Ansible scripts to manage setup and deployment of the checkmk appliance and checkmk instances
Suggested by: Andre Eckstein (29 Jun, '22) Upvoted: 17 Jun, '25 Comments: 3
Under consideration Appliance

Appliance: Support certificate upload in appliance

Support the upload and usage of customer certificates on the appliance to have a TLS 1.2 secured email transport
Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (24 May, '22) Upvoted: 21 Aug, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Appliance

Full IPv6 support for the appliance

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (08 May, '22) Upvoted: 26 Feb Comments: 0
In progress Appliance