Roadmap

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  • Synthetic monitoring
    • Gain deep insights into your applications’ user experience, across locations and browsers.
    • 'Synthetically' mimic interactions of users with target systems to verify applications work as expected 
    • Simple low-code platform
    • Automated test node management and parallel test execution
    • Synthetic monitoring dashboards
    • Test reports with embedded screenshots and screen recordings
    • Fully integrated into the Checkmk platform for alerting
    Done
  • Modern web services monitoring
    • Completely revised HTTP endpoint monitoring
      • Monitor multiple endpoints with just one rule
      • Integrated certificate monitoring
      • Support of latest TLS and HTTP versions
      • HTTP proxy support, redirect handling
      • Custom user agents and header lines
      • User- and token based authentication
      • Granular alerts for response time, status code, age, size, content
    • In-depth certificate monitoring
      • For websites, but also any other application
      • Monitor multiple endpoints with just one rule
      • Granular alerts for response time, remaining validity time, maximum allowed validity, self-signed certificates, serial number, algorithm, issuer, subject, alternative name
    Done
  • Monitor anything out-of-the-box
    • Monitor any MS SQL database – locally or in the cloud
      • Auto-detection and monitoring of locally running databases
      • In-depth monitoring of remote databases, e.g., Microsoft Azure SQL
      • Support of a wide range of special MS SQL setups
      • Custom handling for long-running queries
    • Monitor any Kubernetes setup
      • Added VMware Tanzu and Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot support
      • OpenShift support in all commercial editions
    • Extended Nutanix monitoring
      • Cluster monitroing
      • AHV node monitoring
      • VM monitoring 
    • Generic BGP peer monitoring
    • PureStorage FlashArray monitoring
    • Redfish compatible management controller monitoring
    • Future-proof NetApp storage monitoring 
    • Microsoft mail monitoring via OAuth 
    • Improved stability and performance of ntop integration 
    Done
  • Better monitoring!
    • Simulate and test notifications
    • Network topology visualization: hosts and interfaces and the relationships between them
    • Auto-label generation for almost all operating systems with OS type, OS platform, OS name, OS version
    • Flexible use of labels in any combination in rules
    • Automatic service label refresh
    • Top lists dashlet to identify top/bottom consumers for any metric
    • Host macros for active checks and special agents
    • 2FA via software authenticators
    Done
  • Improve usability
    • Easier work with folders
      • Natural case-insensitive sorting of hosts and folders
      • Extend filter in host setup to also include folders
    • Streamline user workflows in Checkmk
      • New 'Schedule downtime' dialog
      • New 'Acknowledge problem' dialog
      • 14 other command dialogs reworked
    • Granular options for service configuration update in periodic and bulk service discovery
    • Show user who is currently activating changes
    • One column by default for views
    • More transparent revert changes 
    • More visible filter search in setup
    • New icons for rule matching and user mgmt
    • Navigation with hotkeys
    • And many more UX improvements
    Done
  • Cloud meets Checkmk MSP

    All features of Checkmk Cloud are part now of Checkmk MSP 

    Done
  • Developer APIs
    • Developer APIs for every aspect of plug-in development for better handling of MKPs / extensions in updates
      • Graphing API
      • Rulesets API
      • Service side calls API
      • New version of agent based API
    Done
  • More automation
    • New REST API endpoints
      • Notifications: create, update, delete, show (all) notification rules
      • Dynamic configuration: creation, retrieval, deletion
      • Audit log: retrieve, clear
      • Show single host
      • List pending changes
      • Modify downtimes
      • BI aggregation state
    • Edition and version are exposed via HTTP headers
    Done
  • Appliance platform update
    • OS upgrade to Debian bookworm
    • New filesytem: OverlayFS
    • UEFI introduction
    • Bootloader upgrade
    Done
  • 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
    Done
  • 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
    Done
  • 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
  • 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
  • Enhanced distributed monitoring
    • New inter-site communication bus also allowing remote-remote communication
    • Distribution of piggyback data across sites
    Done
  • Automated in-depth Synthetic Monitoring
    • Managed robots
    • Linux support
    • Building test environment on offline systems 
    • KPI monitoring
    Done
  • Non-root agent
    • Deployment of all agent files within one customizable folder
    • Agent can be run as unprivileged user
    Done
  • 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
    Done
  • 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
  • General direction
    • Checkmk Software-as-a-Service offering
    • Powerful AI and machine-learning to support users in their day-to-day tasks
    • Continued work on improving Checkmk’s usability by simplifying and streamlining the UI
    • Further build-out of already best-in-class solution for infrastructure monitoring by improving existing integrations and adding integrations for new technologies
    • Extended application monitoring with OpenTelemetry support for advanced metrics and log integrations
    • Extended Synthetic monitoring, introduced in 2.3.0, with managed test nodes and much more
    • Extended log management and analysis capabilities
    • Extended cloud-native monitoring
      • Further complement already existing monitoring for cloud services and Kubernetes
    • Further analysis and visualization of data options
      • Better visualization options (e.g. maps) and configuration
      • Automated network topology
    • Checkmk App
    Planned

Cloud (SaaS) Roadmap

  • Host Checkmk sites in a US region
    • Giving users the possibility to host their Checkmk site in the US or in the EU. All site specific data will remain in that region
    Done
  • SSO via SAML
    • Support SSO via Microsoft EntraID (formerly known as Azure AD)
    In progress
  • Kubernetes Monitoring
    • Allow monitoring of managed or unmanaged Kubernetes clusters, e.g. EKS, GKE, AKS or Redhat OpenShift. 
    Done
  • Network Device Monitoring & monitor systems not accessible from the internet
    • Allow monitoring of devices and environments that can only be monitored via SNMP or are not reachable from the internet
    • Allow monitoring of systems that are not accessible from outside your network and are being monitored via a special agent (e.g. virtualization platforms like vSphere, Proxmox, storage solutions)
    • Focus on a solution for “smaller environments” first
    In progress