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.

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 ...
Suggested by: Marius Gielnik (26 Jun) Upvoted: 26 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

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 ...
Suggested by: Sascha (30 Jun) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

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 ...
Suggested by: Paulo Santana (30 Jun) Upvoted: 30 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

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 ...
Suggested by: Stijn H. (01 Jul) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Add "Custom host notes" to the Variables for notificationes

There are many variables that can be included in notifications, but ‘Custom host notes’ is not one of them. Please add this variable to the list. It would also be ...
Suggested by: Oliver (12 May) Upvoted: 26 May Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Notification Plugin Api

Could it be possible to add a documented notification plugin api similar to the checkapi / serverside_calls api.... (as proposed during devhour 04/03)
Suggested by: Vincent Stuyck (04 Mar) Upvoted: 10 May Comments: 2
Under consideration Notifications

Improve notification email readability by making the issue stand out more

Even in the new HTML email template introduced in v2.4, one must carefully look what the actual problem is. The small WARN/CRIT badges help in the details, but you ...
Suggested by: Immánuel (03 Mar) Upvoted: 09 Jul Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Notifications: Disable notifications with mandatory comment

We need the information tracking of disable notifications in the GUI, so that the user has to add an comment with the date, why notifications are disabled. This is ...
Suggested by: JPH (08 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 11 Dec, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Integration with BMC Atrium Remedy

Hello Checkmk Team, I appreciate the existing integration between Checkmk and ServiceNow (notifications: SetupServicesService monitoring rulesServicenow ...
Suggested by: Gurusankar Rengaramanujam (21 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 10 Jun Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications

Analyze notification in distributed environments

Hello, We run the enterprise edition of checkmk in a distributed setup. Each remote site sends out notifications independently. However, we only work with the ...
Suggested by: Christian Friedrich (13 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 09 Jul Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications

Notification: send Notification when service details change durig non-OK state

CheckMK currently provides periodic notifications during service problems based on the duration of a non-OK state. However, in some cases customers occasionally want ...
Suggested by: Vasan Sivanesan (06 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 25 Nov, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Create Jira Ticket Directly from a Problem in the Checkmk GUI

It would be very useful to have the ability to create a Jira ticket directly from a specific problem in the Checkmk GUI, ideally with one click or a similar action, ...
Suggested by: Maria Synekidou (22 Oct, '25) Upvoted: 03 Feb Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications

Notifications: Store a ticket number from a notification with the checkmk problem

Notification scripts are also used to send alerts to ticketing systems. If you do that it would be good to store the ticket number with the problem. The options I ...
Suggested by: Andre Koopal (07 Oct, '25) Upvoted: 31 Oct, '25 Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications

Test notifications: make it available for users without permission on notification rules

The “Test notifications” feature is very nice. Problem is that it requires permission ‘Notification configuration’. I don’t want to give this permission to “normal” ...
Suggested by: Nicolas (30 Sep, '25) Upvoted: 17 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Notifications: Native Pushover acknowledge integration

The native Pushover Integration is heavily used for notifications. For "emergency" level notifications Pushover is asking the user for acknowledgement within the App ...
Suggested by: Benni (22 Jul, '25) Upvoted: 14 Nov, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Notification on all alerts not matching any notification rule

Notifications can be configured via contacts to pick up specific hosts or services which will generate a notification, with various types of methods and time periods. ...
Suggested by: ISCB (15 Jul, '25) Upvoted: 15 Jul, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Jira Service Management Notifications AS Request

Creating Jira Service Management "requests" should be an option, and I would really love to see it become reality! ATM it seems that only the JIRA APi is talked ...
Suggested by: Uncreative (05 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 11 Sep, '25 Comments: 0

Regex support for hostname in notification rules

Since it is apparently still not possible under 2.4, support for regular expressions (“Regex”) would also be extremely useful in “Match hosts” and “Exclude hosts”. ...
Suggested by: Maxi (02 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 06 Nov, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

SMTP authentication for ASCII email notifications

SMTP authentication is a must have nowadays, and while HTML email supports this, ASCII formatting email notifications do not. This doesn't make sense, as the ...
Suggested by: Michel Boerenkamp (27 Mar, '25) Upvoted: 21 May, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Test Notification - show based on which criteria a notification rule applies or does not apply

When testing a notification, I see who gets alerted and witch Rule matched. But I don't see why a notification rule does or mor importend doesn't match! I don't know ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (11 Dec, '24) Upvoted: 09 Oct, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

"Delay notification" should be an option in a notification rule, not just globally

There are scenarios, where different recipients should receive notifications with different delays, for example delay notifications to a ticket system, but send ...
Suggested by: Dirk (30 Oct, '24) Upvoted: 25 Feb, '25 Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications

Add Cc addresses to email notification

It would be beneficial for customers to have the option of sending a copy of all email alerts sent to different recipients as a Cc to an additional address (e.g., to ...
Suggested by: Lars Sörensen (30 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 09 Oct, '25 Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications

map mobilephone to pager in SAML

https://forum.checkmk.com/t/map-mobilephone-to-pager-address/43662 I would love to map the user.mobilephone to the pager attribute in cmk user
Suggested by: Philippe (06 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 18 Mar Comments: 4

Valid user mention in Slack notifications

At the moment Slack notifications do not properly mention users. The idea is to add "Slack ID" field (similar to existing "Pager address") in users configuration ...
Suggested by: AlexB (29 Apr, '24) Upvoted: 04 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Notifications via Google chat

With the increased usage of Google workspaces, the common communicator across many organizations nowadays is Google chat. There is no straight forward integration for ...
Suggested by: Mohazin khan (19 Mar, '24) Upvoted: 19 Mar, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Use Custom User Attributes for MS Teams notifications

The notification plugin for MS Teams should have the possibility (similar to the Jira notification plugin) to use custom user attributes for e.g. the webhook URL. ...
Suggested by: Robert Sander (07 Mar, '24) Upvoted: 18 Jun, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Enhance label filtering in notification rules

It would be nice to have the same filter options for labels (one of, none of) like in Monitoring configuration rules to get more flexible Notification Rules instead ...
Suggested by: Jan (01 Mar, '24) Upvoted: 16 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications Usability

Add "backup sms gateway" option in Rule "Parameters for SMS (using modem API)"

Various of our customers are using *two* Teltonica SMS gateways (in separated data centers). It would be nice to extend the mentioned rule with an optional option to ...
Suggested by: Ralf Mellis (14 Feb, '24) Upvoted: 12 Mar, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

SMS SMPP client

I think beneficial will be to add SMPP client to create direct connectivity for SMS notifications. https://github.com/python-smpplib/python-smpplib
Suggested by: volga629 (09 Jan, '24) Upvoted: 25 May, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Exclude and Include in Notification Rules

In the "conditions" section in the notification area, there are several match (include) and exclude Options. But not all objects that can be matched can be ...
Suggested by: Simon Popp (28 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 15 Jun Comments: 9
Under consideration Notifications

Add time period configuration for delayed notifications & maximum number of check attempts for host

Add time period configuration for delayed notifications & maximum number of check attempts for hosts and services to adjust the sensitivity of the notifications > ...
Suggested by: Nicola (16 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 19 Apr, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Add bulking for Teams notifications

Currently the notification script Microsoft Teams does not allow bulking.
Suggested by: Nicola (15 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 07 Feb, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

Make Customer macros available in notifications

This request is applicable for the Managed Services edition. It would be useful to add an option for customers, which would allow to make customer macros available ...
Suggested by: Nicolas (05 Sep, '23) Upvoted: 07 Oct, '25 Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications

Delay Notification for different states

It would be nice to set different times for different states. As an example: Delay 15m for warning state and 5min for critical state.
Suggested by: uncreative (27 Jul, '23) Upvoted: 11 Jul Comments: 2
Under consideration Notifications

Notification or state Stale services

Is it possible to add some functionality that you can be notified when services became stale? Now when multiple services became stale there is no service state or ...
Suggested by: Ramon (06 Jun, '23) Upvoted: 20 Feb Comments: 0

SNMP Variables in Notifications

it would be helpfull, if fields like "snmp info" could be used in notification scripts https://forum.checkmk.com/t/snmp-variables-in-notifications/31005
Suggested by: Dennis Suhl (24 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 13 Jun, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

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 Jan Comments: 3
Under consideration Notifications

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: 16 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications

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: 19 Apr, '25 Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

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: 25 Jun Comments: 1
Under consideration Notifications

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: 15 Apr Comments: 4
Under consideration Notifications

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: 05 May Comments: 0
Under consideration Notifications

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: 19 May Comments: 2
Under consideration Notifications

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

Add a generic plugin for sending notifications

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: 24 May, '24 Comments: 2

Use the nice modern Graphs from the GUI in Notifications

The HTML mail notification 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: 14 Dec, '25 Comments: 9
Under consideration Notifications