BI: Make "Below this node, show only problem" permanently active in BI visualization
When using the "Below this node, show only problems" option in the BI Visualization, it's easy to create a clear error-focused dashboard.
We often use this during major system changes or incidents to quickly identify affected hosts and services within large business processes or critical system states (e.g. system temperatures during air conditioning failures).
However, the current behavior is problematic:
The "only problems" view only lasts for a few seconds before automatically reverting to the default view showing all nodes.
It would be extremely helpful to have an option to keep the "only problems" view active permanently, or at least until manually reset.
This would improve usability significantly in large aggregations and during incident response, where a focused view on WARN/CRIT states is essential.
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26 Jan
Bruno DE BASTIANI MergedIn the Business Intelligence visualization, the option
“Below this node, show only problems” is very useful, but it is temporary and cannot be saved.
Feature request:
Allow this setting to be persisted, either per BI view or per node, so that a BI visualization can be permanently configured to:
- Display the full structure at the top level
- Automatically filter subtrees to show only branches containing problems
This would make BI far more usable as a high-level dashboard while still allowing focused troubleshooting, without having to reapply the option manually each time. -
09 Mar
Josef MergedGuess it's very close to:
https://ideas.checkmk.com/suggestions/672198/bi-make-below-this-node-show-only-problem-permanently-active-in-bi-visualization -
13 Apr
Cedric Archenoul System"Business Intelligence Visualization: Make option “below this node, show only problems” persistent" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-01-26), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.