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.

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 ...
Suggested by: Robert (13 Jul) Upvoted: 13 Jul Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

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 ...
Suggested by: Stefan Brunzen (29 Jun) Upvoted: 08 Jul Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

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. ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (22 May) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 2

Graphs: consistent pan & zoom for graphs (X and Y axes)

Currently, only the X-axis supports both horizontal scrolling (click & drag) and zooming (mouse wheel) in graphs. Vertical click & drag typically rescales only the ...
Suggested by: Stefan Rickli (23 Mar) Upvoted: 12 Jun Comments: 3

Dashboard: Remove Total Number on Host State Summary and Service State Summary

When using the Elements "Host State Summary" and "Service State Summary" include an option to remove the total number to be shown so instead of showing something ...
Suggested by: Paulo Santana (21 Feb) Upvoted: 04 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Dashboards: link to drill down dashboards with same filter as main dashboard

When selecting devices of a specific location in a main dashboard using tags or labels I want to have hostnames, aliases and other basic values displayed in different ...
Suggested by: Ralf Spenner (20 Jan) Upvoted: 16 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Dashboards: add custom widgets under ~/local/lib/python3/cmk_addons/

Since you rewrite the dashlets/widget concept again in Checkmk 2.5, please intergrate a possibility to add custom widgets under the ~/local structure.
Suggested by: StefanM (15 Jan) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 6
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Views: Extend Host Groups Data Source

The current "Host Groups" view already provides aggregations for Up/Down hosts and the number of services in each state (OK/Warn/Crit, etc.). I would like to propose ...
Suggested by: Paul Schaefer (12 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 13 May Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Dashboard: New element for pictures and picture upload

Allow pictures to be added to dashboards, currently to do this we need to inform a url of a picture. It would be useful to have a proper dashboard element for ...
Suggested by: Paulo Santana (07 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 02 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Allow views and dashboards to inherit permissions from its topic

Create an option to allow views to inherit permissions from the topic associated with it. A checkbox would be available to inherit the visualization option available ...
Suggested by: Paulo Santana (27 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 27 Nov, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

"Grouping of services in table views": ability to set minimum grouping value for to 1

The global setting "Grouping of services in table views" allows services to be grouped, but the minimum group size is set to 2. If you try to set it to 1, you ...
Suggested by: Josef (03 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 25 Nov, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Combined Graphs: Use only one metric per combined graph

The combined graphs feature is unusable for services with graphs that have more than one metric. It would be good to have the individual metrics "combined" instead ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (15 Sep, '25) Upvoted: 01 Jan Comments: 1
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Host Group Alias in View

When using host groups in views to sort and group devices it is currently not possible to show the alias in the table. Since the alias is used for better display it ...
Suggested by: René (27 Aug, '25) Upvoted: 03 Nov, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

LDAP - improve ldap connection overview

Please consider removing the unnecessary Name column from the LDAP connection overview, as there is no "name" field in the configuration. Instead, you could include ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (04 Jul, '25) Upvoted: 09 Oct, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

View info: services in downtime, disabled notifications, etc.

We missing the possibility to show in the view of services or hosts the services which are in downtime or disabled notifications, etc.. Please make it possible to ...
Suggested by: JPH (16 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 29 Aug, '25 Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Views/History: Show week day in characters not only the date and time

Views/History: Show week day in characters not only the date and time
Suggested by: JPH (03 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 17 Apr Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Rule view adjustable like normal views

Rule view adjustable like normal views We missing several information's in the rule table, but it is not possible to adjust the rule view. hence, please make all ...
Suggested by: JPH (02 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 02 Jun, '25 Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Start URL to display in main frame: assign to contact groups

It would be useful to assign the "start url in main frame" based on contact groups (not only globally and per user). For admins who manage dashboards for different ...
Suggested by: Maiwand (22 May, '25) Upvoted: 18 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Dashlet Scatterplot add option to revers Tooltip

for the Dashlet Scatterplot add an Option to reverse the tooltip (Mouseover) The only change is the addition of the argument reverse=True or false to the sorted() ...
Suggested by: Bernd Holzhauer (10 Apr, '25) Upvoted: 18 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Save current filter view of Parents / Child

It would be nice to save the link to a current filter view of the parents / child view. Currently the URL does not change if a filter is used.
Suggested by: Andreas Dvorak (28 Mar, '25) Upvoted: 28 Mar, '25 Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Host overview: Show number of services in down time

Currently the host overview shows 5 service counts: All services, Critical services, Warning services, unknown services and pending services. A fifth count for the ...
Suggested by: htcfreek (07 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 30 Nov, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

combined graph accessibility and color

I hyve two ideas/suggestions for the "combined graph" feature: - It would be nice to bring back the old (pre 2.2) accessibility to the combined graph feature. Now ...
Suggested by: Josef (06 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 06 Feb, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Views: Link host names to the correct "Single Linux or Windows host" dashboard based on host OS

Greetings, Whenever you link, let's say single Windows (or Linux) dashboard to any hostname column in any view, it doesn't matter what OS the host is on, when you ...
Suggested by: Scott (18 Nov, '24) Upvoted: 03 Dec, '24 Comments: 1
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Improve Performance Metric RRD views - Use a single time filter for the whole page

When navigating into metrics (Service graphs) we have a long page with several metrics and several repeated time filters. It would be better to have a single time ...
Suggested by: Paulo Santana (12 Nov, '24) Upvoted: 26 Nov, '24 Comments: 2

the possibility to use service / host labels eg. groups in the graph designer

ulterior motive I have 30 hosts with the same service and simply want to bring a metric of these services into a custom graph. so the list in the graph designer ...
Suggested by: Bernd Holzhauer (25 Oct, '24) Upvoted: 08 Jul Comments: 0

Merging Function of Custom graphs

In Large Environments, it is noted that many custom graphs created for each department and/or section of network, each custom graph can contain a multitude of ...
Suggested by: Mohamad Al Bakri Vizcarra (21 Oct, '24) Upvoted: 21 Oct, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

User defined Display Options (i.e Graph Timerange) for Graph Collections

It is quite useful and necessary to be able to modify display options as a user of graph collection, in a similar manner to normal graphs, such that (Graph time ...
Suggested by: Mohamad Al Bakri Vizcarra (21 Oct, '24) Upvoted: 21 Oct, '24 Comments: 0

Include Availability Column in Views

Currently, it is not possible to combine availability data and service status in traditional views. I recommend adding an option to include Availability as a new ...
Suggested by: Paulo Santana (03 Sep, '24) Upvoted: 17 Apr Comments: 3
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Global Date/Time picker - To be used by Dashboards and Views

Implement a universal button to adjust the date/time filter with options such as Today, Last Hour, etc. This button should be accessible across all relevant views for ...
Suggested by: Paulo Santana (03 Sep, '24) Upvoted: 06 Jun Comments: 4
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Automatic placement of hosts in Worldmap

Please add functionality so that Worldmaps so that hosts/services can be placed on the map automatically based on host attributes The world map is a good tool but ...
Suggested by: Arvid Carlander (09 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 24 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

including checkmk into external iFrame

A perfectly embeddable dashboard would mean creating first the possibility to mark dashboards available for iframe embedding and either adding a restricted user role ...
Suggested by: Michael (07 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 27 Jun Comments: 3

GUI: Add complete host inventory (cmk -II <host>) possibility for normal users to click

The problem is that the inventory needs admin rights to configure the host. But the normal user needs just the possibility to make the inventory for his host. So per ...
Suggested by: JPH (07 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 07 Aug, '24 Comments: 1
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Views: Indicate what filters are applied by the view config

When looking at a View, there is no indication whatsoever if a search/context filter is applied in the View configuration. In order to know what is being displayed, ...
Suggested by: JPH (02 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 02 Aug, '24 Comments: 4
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Calendar Dashboard for future scheduled downtime

Suggestion for a dashboard that shows future hosts scheduled downtimes.
Suggested by: Marc Gillespie (02 Jul, '24) Upvoted: 10 Mar Comments: 3
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Visibility of the Livestatus Error in Dashboards

Hello CheckMK, it would be great if the Livestatus Error in Dashboards would be only visible for admins and for dashboards which rely to the site which is currently ...
Suggested by: David (19 Apr, '24) Upvoted: 05 Feb Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Create Pie-Chart as Dashlet

Hi Team, to build good Overview Dashboards for non technicals Pie-Charts are a great visualization also for using in Reports. Greets Bernd
Suggested by: Bernd Holzhauer (25 Mar, '24) Upvoted: 17 Apr Comments: 4
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Show latency and packet loss on parent/child topology

This will be a good way to easily see trouble spots on a network. The colour or thickness of the lines connecting nodes can be used to indicate packet loss and ping ...
Suggested by: Petrus (19 Mar, '24) Upvoted: 20 May, '25 Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Show start and end of Stale State in the Service Event View

For retrospective problem analysis, it would be very helpful if the Event View also showed when a service was marked as Stale and when this phase ended. This would ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (03 Jan, '24) Upvoted: 09 Oct, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Bubble & Rectangle Dashboard Widgets

It will be helpful to have bubble or rectangle Dashlets to show the highest state of host groups, service groups or events by criteria. With this kind of dashlets you ...
Suggested by: Michaelski C. (14 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 17 Apr Comments: 3
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

option to select labels in a view

Hallo, it would be helpful to select only some lables in a view. Actually all labels are show for every host. The usecase here is that I m using a tag to define the ...
Suggested by: Ralf Prengel (02 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 26 Jun Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Virtual Host Trees: allow custom host attributes and/or labels as tree level

Currently, only host tags or folders can be used as tree levels for a virtual host tree. Host tags are of limited use as the require all possible values to be ...
Suggested by: Heavy91 (27 Aug, '23) Upvoted: 29 Feb, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

GUI: User Comment field for all configuration views and rules, etc.

Please implement in all configuration views and rules, etc. the comment part, so that we are able to comment all changes. All Changes we made are important for ...
Suggested by: JPH (25 Aug, '23) Upvoted: 08 Apr, '25 Comments: 4
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Interuption of graphs by activating “Averaging of interfaces” graphs

if “Averaging of interfaces” is activated in the rule "Network interfaces and switch ports" the graphs for normal Bandwith is Interupted ..... better will be that the ...
Suggested by: Bernd Holzhauer (27 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 20 Mar, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Dashboard Buttons, with link to other dashboards, and with status of the other dashboard.

We have a main dashboard, there should be a way to get from this main dashboard to another dashboard with a click of a button. It would be cool if this button would ...
Suggested by: Christian Gehrig (02 Mar, '23) Upvoted: 17 Apr Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Save current warn/crit thresholds in the RRD File and show history in graph

In the Checkmk GUI, only the current threshold value is displayed as a continuous line in the graphs. It is not visible when a threshold has changed and/or at what ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (28 Feb, '23) Upvoted: 09 Oct, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Host View: hosts created at date xxxx.yy.zz or between date xxxx.ay.bz and date xxxx.yy.zz

Host View: hosts created at date xxxx.yy.zz or between date xxxx.ay.bz and date xxxx.yy.zz We got the information that some hosts are created by Rest-API:s. image ...
Suggested by: JPH (20 Feb, '23) Upvoted: 28 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Dashboard Separator Bar / Divider / Line / Formatting options etc.

Ability to add a simple bar or division to emphasize the separation of dashboard elements. It would be great when formatting headlines could have more options ...
Suggested by: opensourcefan (06 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 17 Apr Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Set graph of errors of an interface to %

If you have errors on an interface, it's in % in the service description but the service graph is in x/s, which is not convenient. It would be nice to have the ...
Suggested by: PaulR282 (15 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 15 Nov, '22 Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

rendering of unit Pascal in graphs should be hPa

The rendering of the unit Pascal ( unit_info["pa"] ) is currently done with rendering method physical_precision. This method returns the base unit or kilo, Mega, etc. ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (12 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 19 Nov, '22 Comments: 2
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations

Dashboard - Multiple Dashboard Cycling / Slideshow

Add the ability to cycle selected dashboards automatically based on a given interval. Similar to Grafana. It would allow the continuous monitoring of all information ...
Suggested by: opensourcefan (11 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 13 May Comments: 9
Under consideration Dashboards & Visualizations