Roadmap
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Artificial Intelligence
Root Cause Analysis
- Artificial intelligence chat assistant embedded in Checkmk: Ask about multiple hosts and services via chat conversation, and iterate with follow-up questions to reveal root causes faster.
- Incident clustering: Collapse alert storms into a concise, ranked, clustered list of incidents.
MCP server
- Artificial intelligence agent access: Bring your own Model (BYOM) to connect Checkmk’s live system data to artificial intelligence tools you already use. Troubleshoot issues quickly with natural language queries.
- Site-level investigation: Save time, effort, and reduce MTTR by letting your artificial intelligence agent run diagnostic workflows across your entire infrastructure stack.
- Secure, efficient data processing: MCP server reuses Checkmk’s own logic, and inherits native authentication, authorization, and RBAC.
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Advancing Full-Stack Observability
Application Observability
- Quick OTel setup: Onboard and configure OpenTelemetry data in minutes using a guided, step-by-step flow.
- API automation: Configure OpenTelemetry data collection automatically via API, using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Ansible.
- Guided Service-to-Alert Flow: Custom service creation leads straight into alert configuration, with thresholds set directly on the metric graph so impact is visible before saving.
- Intuitive metrics filtering: Use regex to find and isolate which metrics are ingested, without needing to know exact metric names in advance.
- Customizable visualization: Dig deeper into the data, and fine-tune how complex insights are presented with flexible display options.
- Time-series aggregations: Group or slice data to evaluate application health, from high-level summaries to granular time slices.
Monitor Anything in the Cloud
- Extensible Azure monitoring: Extend the out-of-the-box monitoring to cover any Azure resource using the native OTel integration (not included in Pro).
- Improved out-of-the-box monitoring for AWS: Connect your entire AWS organization with a simplified setup that scales, and manage and visualize hosts in a hierarchy that natively maps to your AWS account structure.
Kubernetes Monitoring
- Quick setup: Monitor your clusters quickly and easily with Kubernetes guided setup.
- Push or pull agents: Monitor securely in push mode without exposing your API, or pull data directly with our new agent.
- Auto-scalable workloads: Monitor large, dynamic clusters without Checkmk configuration churn, even as pods come and go.
- Native OTel support: Gain additional insight into your cluster's performance by drilling down to container-level metrics (not included in Pro).
Synthetic Monitoring
- Built-in dashboards: visualize individual test executions over time, across locations, environments, and more in the new Pulse View.
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Reimagining Analytics, Visualization & UX
Views 3.0
- Responsive search: See search results in real-time, as you type.
- Slide-out panels: Click individual hosts to display their service overview, parameters, event history (and more).
- In-View Actions: Execute problem acknowledgments and schedule downtimes right from the slide-out panel.
Intuitive Graphing
- Global time-picker: Change the time range once and every dashboard updates together.
- Frictionless navigation: Pinch-to-zoom, inspect mode, and smarter pinning make insights easier to find.
Connected, Drill down Dashboards
- Build your own: Build custom drill down links between dashboards.
- Responsive display: Pan, zoom, brush, and select custom ranges.
Modern NagVis Successor (Orbvis)
- Native maps integration: Map with a modern, open-source engine that replaces the 20-year-old NagVis codebase.
Foundations
- Linux agent: Unify the updater and controller in a clean, default one-directory deployment.
- Enterprise identity management: Authenticate with SAML across distributed sites, with unified user identities.
- Oracle monitoring: proper multi-tenant DB support.
- REST API version tracking: Check Veeam REST and Nutanix v4 APIs directly.
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Beyond 3.0
- Behavioral threat detection: Flag unusual activity like sudden traffic surges or new destinations, with a built-in alert library that includes security checks.
- Modernized Views: Visualize host relationships and impact paths.
- Log management: Search all your logs in one place, natively connected to artificial intelligence that diagnoses and remediates issues.
Planned
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Enhanced Infrastructure Monitoring
- Improved and expanded monitoring of Virtualisation Platforms, including Proxmox, Hyper-V and Podman. Expect a more unified experience.
- Significant expansion and improvements to plugins for visibility into advanced Azure Cloud services.
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Modern Application Monitoring
- Effortlessly analyze & visualize for application data.
- A scalable and robust data backend to store and query modern application metrics.
- Integrate OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) or Prometheus metrics with ease.
- Smarter host name handling: Automatic and consistent host name computation.
- More flexible and secure ways to authenticate data sources.
- Better Windows logwatch monitoring.
- Oracle Monitoring: deeper database insights.
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Powerful Dashboarding
- Easily create, test and edit powerful and visually appealing dashboards.
- A smarter and more guided process for dashboard creation.
- Better filtering: set and apply context search filters, and time ranges.
- More flexibility in editing and reshaping dashboards.
- Responsive dashboards: view dashboards on any screen.
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Navigation and onboarding
- Frictionless first steps for faster onboarding.
- More meaningful status updates about what is happening.
- In-page validation – fix issues before they become a problem.
- Less context switching.
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User experience improvements
- Activate changes on the fly without context-switching.
- Further performance improvements.
- A more interactive UI.
- Dynamic pages.
- A faster user interface.
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Monitor segmented networks with Checkmk Relay
- Checkmk Relay. A lightweight, hands-off and fully centrally manageable way to monitor segmented networks.
- Deploy Checkmk Relay for more centrally manageable distributed monitoring setups.
- Securely connect and exchange data with a site.
Done
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Set-up cloud monitoring in minutes
- Configure the entire monitoring of AWS, Azure and GCP in one go
- Immediate feedback during configuration on errors by testing the connection during the configuration
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You'll love notification with Checkmk!
- Central notifications hub to have all information and relevant rules in one place
- Guided configuration of notifications
- Overview mode for notification configuration
- On-the-fly creation and editing of notification parameters
- New notification emails
- Updated notification plug-ins for Microsoft Teams, Jira, OpsGenie, ServiceNow, Slack
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OpenTelemetry & Prometheus exporter integrations
- Monitor custom applications by
- pushing OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) metrics to Checkmk sites
- pulling Prometheus metrics from exporters or natively directly from Checkmk sites
- Flexible architecture accommodating almost any use case with cascading OpenTelemetry collectors
Done - Monitor custom applications by
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Better handling of large highly dynamic environments
- Re-architecture of dynamic host management into a queue-based system
- Parallel processing of connectors for high-speed data ingestion
- Stable & safe processing of configuration changes and activation
Done - Re-architecture of dynamic host management into a queue-based system
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Enhanced distributed monitoring
- New inter-site communication bus also allowing remote-remote communication
- Distribution of piggyback data across sites
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Automated in-depth Synthetic Monitoring
- Managed robots
- Linux support
- Building test environment on offline systems
- KPI monitoring
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Non-root agent
- Deployment of all agent files within one customizable folder
- Agent can be run as unprivileged user
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Improve platform & security
- Improve REST API performance
- Replacement of automation user in internal features
- Improve runtime stability of Checkmk with config validation layer
- Checkmk agent can run on FIPS-enabled OS
- Checkmk site can run on FIPS-enabled OS
- Certificate overview page
- Enforce Two-Factor Authentication for users
- Software architecture & build system rework
- Distributed tracing of Checkmk itself for performance analysis using OpenTelemetry & Jaeger
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And many more smaller improvements
- Update service discovery parameters
- Faster loading of service discovery page, effective parameters of host/service, computation of effective labels, and likely much more across entire Checkmk
- Many plug-ins incl. mainlining of Redfish and improvements to mk_sql, check_cert and check_httpv2
Done