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Mobile App for Checkmk
Create an iOS and Android app for Checkmk, which is focused on monitoring (not setup). It should address 2 common use cases:
* Receive notifications and allow drill ...
When deleting a host, also remove rules that are only for that host
Especially the ruleset "disabled services" accumulates a large number of rules when users are manually disabling services in the configuration.
When hosts are ...
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 ...
Support AND/OR/NOT for labels in rules
was: Support Regex for Labels in Rules
https://features.checkmk.com/suggestions/293832/support-and-or-and-not-for-labels-in-filters and ...
Network Topology enhancements
Two features are missing from the "new" network topology when compared with the old Nagvis automap:
- Show the downtime status of a host
- When clicking on the ...
Easy rename hosts
Renaming hosts is a technically complex task. It involves a core restart and often fails on large deployments due to Checkmk having to search through all logs and ...
Force host-tag selection
I'd like to get the option of forcing our users to select a specific host-tag when trying to create a host.
This is useful in environments which for example define ...
Simpler selection of multiple lines using the shift key
I want to be able to select multiple subsequent check boxes in a “from, to” manner by selecting the first and then selecting the last checkbox with the shift key pressed.
Responsive Graphs
Right now, the graphs of a service metric have a fixed size. This size won't change on different screen sizes. This can lead to either small graphs on large screens ...
Add VMware vCenter Tags as labels
VMware VCenter has a similar implementation of tags and Tag groups like checkmk. It would be great, if the assigned VM tags would be automatically assigned as host ...
Make 'pending baking' more visible
'Pending changes' ist quite good visible, pending baking and signing is not, thus can easily be forgotten.
Recurring Downtime | Define by Time Ranges (Downtime is DST aware)
We would like to be able to define recurring downtime in terms of time ranges (e.g. 22:00 - 00:00) in additional to absolute terms periods (e.g. 2 hours).
This is ...
Move multiple rules to another folder
Currently, if I have to move a rule, I have to edit each rule and select a new folder. Can we make this operation simpler:
- Enable the checkbox at the beginning to ...
Open new Tab with/without enabled Navigation
When opening a link in a new tab on a page with navigation enabled, the navigation in the new tab is always disabled.
It would be nice if the page in the new tab ...
Overview of labels used
I think, when we are use a lot of labels, is good to have an overview for the used labels in the system
Just when the label are created, they will be put in a ...
With pending changes, allow to activate / discard a selection
When there are changes, now I only have the option to either activate or discard them all. Even if there are changes by another user. It would be nice if I could ...
Additional levels on bookmarks, dashboards and views
For example, the build-in Linux dashboard might show 1000 hosts and making the dashboard quite useless due to all the "clutter".
Allowing to create sub-dashboard ...
Mass editing of User attributes
If you have to add/change/remove attributes for a group of users, it can quickly become very time-consuming.
It would be very helpful if you could search for users ...
Automatically Create IDs (Reports, Host Groups, Service Groups, Tags)
When creating reports, host groups, service groups and other options we need to define the ID`s which makes sense but could be hidden by some kind of automation to ...
New custom theme, canvas graphs: foreground color or light/dark setting
If you make a custom theme, performance graphs get the foreground color default set to the light theme facelift, which makes the text in the canvas black. When your ...
Downtime: Log user cancelling a downtime
Setting a downtime will be logged with the user, but cancelling it not. Please make this consistent
Network Scan: Scan now button
In order to be able to control when the network scan is carried out and not have to wait 24 hours, a "Scan Now" button could be introduced.
GUI > service or HOST search result > ADD TO Servicegroup or HOSTGROUP
the possibility to assign a result of a service or HOST search to a service or HOST group
Allow to search services by "service details" (fka "long plugin output")
Service searches can be filtered by many things, but the long output/details which are used much more since 2.0 are not filterable.
Please add a search painter for ...
a simple page for changing the notifications recipients
it would be also very practical if there would be a page with simply 2 dropdown menus
with the notification as 1st dropdown and the recipient(s) as 2nd dropdown to ...
option to differ visual between regular host up and host up by rule "Always assume host to be up"
Hallo,
it would be helpfull to differ between a regular up status an the one triggered by the rule "Always assume host to be up". Maybe to different UP icons ...
Sidebar Snapin - User Overview
The Sidebar Snap in - User Overview is very helpful for CheckMK admins, but unfortunately only on CheckMK Exchange available for an older version of CheckMK.
As ...
Filter: ip address from hw/sw inventory
Due to most of our monitored servers has more than one interface with its ip, I would like to search an IP and find the host using the information of the checkmk ...
Grey out hosts/services that are currently in a scheduled downtime
For a better overview it would be useful to be able to mark gray the hosts or services (for example in the view "Monitor/All Hosts") that are currently in a scheduled ...
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 ...
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 ...
Add a Filter to the Ruleset View
In a larger environment you can have quickly a lot of rules.
A filter in the Ruleset View to show only the rules that contain a certain string like in the ...
Add a Filter to the Edit Service View
For servers with a few thousand services, the "Edit Services" view can quickly become crowded.
It would be a great simplification if you could filter the ...
Views: Add Limit for Number of Rows
In many cases it is sufficient to display only the first x rows in the view. Especially in dashboards where space is already limited.
It would be very helpful if ...
pause/resume page refresh with a klick on the page refresh circle.
In older versions of CMK, you could easily change the automatic page refresh interval with the mouse wheel if needed.
Starting with version 2.0, you must first ...
Indicate upcoming downtimes as gray pylon in GUI.
Active downtimes for servers/services are indicated in the GUI with the orange pylon icon and are thus immediately visible to the user.
Planned server/service ...
Hide/Show graph in Service View
If you have a lot of service graphs, the service view can sometimes become quite long and take a long time to load.
It would be very handy to be able to hide/show ...
Keep table header, while scrolling in long lists (e.g. hosts)
Keep the table header visible, while scrolling in long lists, allows to see the column names
Show column header once at top and option to fix
When scrolling in views it would be nice that the headers can get fixed and only the rows are moving.
Clone Folders
It would be great if it would be possible to clone a complete subfolder tree including all assigned tags/labels but obviously without hosts.
This way it would be ...
Enhanced Rule Information (Creation Date, Creator, Modified Date, …)
Hello,
it would be useful to be able to see who created a rule and who changed it and when.
At the moment it is possible to manually ad a timestamp and the ...
Update: please enhance the color of the command line output
Update: please enhance the color of the command line output, see picture with the white/gray color which is not good to see.
Grant Read Access in WATO for Custom Agent Files
It would be very helpful if admins could view all uploaded scripts (as used with "deploy custom files with agent") directly in WATO, otherwise admins have to rely on ...
Bookmarks with the option target _blank to open the URL in the tap
Hello CMK team we using the bookmarks as well for the collection of the daily work in the view of monitoring.
But Checkmk is not opening the external URL's.
So ...
regex using two conditions in one field should be more easy
Hallo,
maybe something for the UX team.
Adding two filters in a regex works but should be more simple. Here adding a second filter often fails with unclear ...
display problems with packages in the main page of extensions
Hallo,
the feature analyze configuration lists problems with mkps.
It would be helpful to see these results in the main package management page too.
Maybe a signal ...
Make a Column in Views that Displays the Value of a single Label
Currently ist only possible to view all labels of a Host/Service, it would be nice to select a label-key and the values of that key become visible in the column.
Change default size of Setup folder title size
Today the title is capped to 25 chars making it unreadable when the prefix of a folder is identical for the first 25 chars. Would like to have this more dynamically ...
Allow the definition of n months back in time as a considered time range
Currently, it is possible to select a time range in various pages/views, to display data. E.g. in a report, one may consider values of this month and values of last ...
Drop-down menu of "Dashboards" divided into submenus based on topics
We would like to have the attached "Dashboards" drop-down menu divided into a submenu for each topic, maybe with the possibility of choosing which topics to show. ...