Checkmk site (server) should run on ARM

1K votes

The Checkmk server should be able to run on ARM-based platforms like Raspberry and similar.

Under consideration Site management Suggested by: Edgar (04 May, '22) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 14

Comments: 14

05 May, '22
Bastian Kuhn
Would also support running CMK in an ARM Linux VM, using on Apple Silicon to develop. So, Developers can switch to the new Macs :)
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10 May, '22
Angelo
I would be nice to have ARM support to monitor small offices without spending much money for hardware.
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20 May, '22
Paulo
This feature would be perfect for several small environments. For example it would be possible to create a small CheckMK box that could monitor a small datacenter and show it's data in a TV connected to itself. I'm really looking for that.
28 Jul, '22
Gerald Amrhein
Yes, my main goal for this is the usage in a mac m2. raspyberry with 8GB would be nice to
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02 Aug, '23
Daniel
Not only for raspberry, many cloud provider use arm as possible server architecture. Like hetzner. Its a huge price difference between x86 and arm.
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27 Sep, '23
Martin Hirschvogel Admin
We have internally split the whole topic into three sub-tasks. Read more about this here: https://checkmk.com/blog/checkmk-our-road-arm-support

We will accordingly create a new 'status' to deal with this suggestion (and a couple of others as well).
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29 Sep, '23
Paulo Adriano
Are guys aware of this project?

https://github.com/chrisss404/check-mk-arm

I believe that the best scenario of arm usage is the deployment using Raspberry Pi.
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02 Oct, '23
Martin Hirschvogel Admin
Yes, we are aware of this.
We have to guarantee function safe operation in enterprise environment. The reliability of a monitoring system and the state calculation is something where we can not make any compromises. The mentioned project does not include necessary changes to livestatus, thus use at your own risk.
If you use this for your home lab or a non-critical environment, I think this is a great project. I just wouldn't use it in an enterprise environment
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02 Jun, '24
Martin Hirschvogel Admin
I split the agent controller port for ARM from this ticket and adapted the title and description to make clear that this idea is solely for a Checkmk site (a.k.a server) to be officially supported on ARM.
05 Jul, '24
Sebastian
As the mentioned community fork with ARM support on GitHub is no longer develop in favor of the official ARM support, I'd like to know if there is any timeline for this? When can we probably expect a first alpha/beta version working on ARM servers?

Thanks for the effort.
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10 Jul, '24
Mohamed Saleh Admin
Hi Sebastian,

We currently have no decision yet with regards to this topic, and therefore can not provide any timeline at this point. We'll certainly keep you posted with any new developments once we have more information.

All the best,
Saleh
24 Oct, '24
Ashley
arm64 is more performant than amd64 and the arm64 instances on AWS are significantly cheaper than the amd64 ones. I am currently migrating all of my amd64 EC2 instances to arm64 and have 2 x CheckMK server instances that need to be migrated, but lack of arm64 packages for CheckMK server is blocking me from doing so.
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23 Feb
Kevin
any update on whether you will make an arm64 agent? would love to continue using Check_mk but 90% of my servers have all moved to ARM systems
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10 Mar
Mohamed Saleh Admin
Hi Kevin,
Thank you for reaching out.
We understand it's a super important topic for you and many of our users as seen from the feedback and the huge amount of votes.
There is a separate idea for the ARM agent controller as well, https://ideas.checkmk.com/suggestions/558275/arm-support-for-agent-controller
As of now, we don't have concrete updates on the topic. Keep an eye on the idea, we will provide updates as soon as we have something coming up.