Roadmap

Name: checkmk
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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

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
- Hardware monitoring: Monitor management baseboard controllers as standalone hosts
In progress
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
In progress
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
In progress
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
In progress
User experience improvements
- Activate changes on the fly without context-switching
- Further performance improvements
- A more interactive UI
- Dynamic pages
- A faster user interface
In progress
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
In progress

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
Monthly subscriptions
- Flexibly use Checkmk Cloud without the commitment of an annual contract.
- Scale your subscription only if and when your monitoring needs grow
In progress