Roadmap

Name: checkmk
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Cloud-ready monitoring agents
- Push mode for agents, allowing hosts to securely push data to Checkmk server from segmented networks
- Auto-creation and discovery of hosts
- Automatic removal of non-responsive hosts
- Pre-configured agent packages for one-click installation & registration
- Agents bakeable and downloadable by folder
- Built-in role for agent registration user
- Automatic agent certificate renewal
- Dedicated CA for agent certificates
- Reworked rules of agent data encryption and real-time checks for simpler configuration
Done
Run Checkmk in the cloud
- Checkmk available on AWS and Azure marketplaces
- Backup Checkmk to AWS S3 storage and Azure blob storage
Done
Google Cloud Platform monitoring
Introduced with coverage of all major services:
- Compute Engine
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud Load Balancing
- Cloud SQL
- Filestore
- Memorystore for Redis
- Kubernetes Engine
- Cloud Functions
- Cloud Run
- Cloud Costs
- Service Health
Done
Extended AWS monitoring
- New integrations
  
  Elastic Container Service
  
  Elastic Kubernetes Service
  
  Lambda
  
  Route 53
  
  ElastiCache for Redis
  
  Simple Notification Service
  
  CloudFront
  
  AWS Status
- Extended region support: GovCloud (US-East, US-West), Zurich, Spain, Milan, Jakarta, Hyderabad, Hong Kong, Bahrain, UAE, Cape Town
- Elastic Block Storage: Support for gp3 and io2 volumes
- Improved monitoring with
  
  Support of additional host labels
  
  Elastic Compute Cloud: Configurable piggyback names
Done
Extended Microsoft Azure monitoring
- New integrations
  
  Application Gateway
  
  Database for MySQL
  
  Database for PostgreSQL
  
  App Registration
  
  Traffic Manager
  
  Load Balancer
  
  Kubernetes Service
  
  Recovery Services Vault
  
  Resource Health
  
  Azure Status
- Completely reworked integrations for
  
  Virtual Network Gateway
  
  Virtual Machines
- Improved configuration with
  
  Option to (de)select services to be monitored
  
  Additional host labels
  
  Simpler VM service state remapping
Done
Out-of-the-box cloud dashboards
- VM dashboards for AWS EC2, Azure Virtual Machines, GCP Compute Engine
- Storage dashboards for AWS S3, Azure Storage accounts, GCP Storage buckets
Done
OpenShift monitoring and extended Kubernetes support
- RedHat OpenShift monitoring via native monitoring stack requiring no installation of additional workloads
- Official support of AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, GCP Google Kubernetes Engine and CRI-O as container runtime
- Added monitoring for
  
  Persistent Volume Claims
  
  CronJobs
- Improved navigation through Kubernetes dashboards via extended breadcrumbs
Done
More and better integrations
- Improvements for Grafana integration
  
  Support for variables as fixed or dynamic list to switch between objects to display
  
  Signed Grafana Plugin, additionally available from the Grafana Plugin Store and therefore can be used in Grafana Cloud
  
  Simplified interface
  
  Higher stability and performance with more efficient API calls
- Improved integration with InfluxDB with batching and compressing transferred data
- New MS Teams integration for sending notifications
- Mail improvements
Done
Extended and reworked REST API
- New REST API calls for monitoring
  
  Event Console
  
  Comments
  
  Service Level Agreements
  
  Metrics
- New REST API calls for setup
  
  Site management
  
  Auxiliary Tags
  
  User roles
- Reworked service discovery calls to reflect GUI interaction
- Better usable API requests, e.g. of show hosts and custom user attributes
- More useful API responses, e.g. for activate pending changes and show host tag groups
- Improved crash reporting for HTTP 5xx errors
Done
Single sign-on via SAML
- Configurable directly in UI
- Automatic user creation on login
- Attribute & contact group mapping
- Role mapping
- Multiple connections possible
- Fallback: Login with user / password
- Bulk migration option of users to other user connector
Done
User Interface improvements
- Sharing views, dashboards & reports via MKP
- Control of visuals access by Checkmk site
- More flexibility in building dashboards and views
  
  Inventory tables with other tables
  
  Inventory tables with 'variables' for service names
  
  Explicit match or regular expression match option for 'joined columns'
- Business Intelligence: Making changes visible with freezable aggregation state
Done
Quality of Life improvements
- Pre-flight check for omd updates
- Service discovery, showing state per data source
- Improvements of user experience - for details, please watch this video
- Performance improvements for views, setup (up to 2x faster SNMP service discovery), agent bakery, event console and distributed monitoring
Done
Making MKPs ready for updates
- Handling of multiple MKPs containing the same files
- New MKP states and workflows
- Automatic update mechanisms for MKPs
- Modernized MKP CLI
Done
Agent improvements
- Password store for all special agents
- Unified agent behavior for
  
  Killing long-running async processes: Beyond Linux, Solaris, and now also for AIX
  
  Unified MRPE support now for AIX, FreeBSD, OpenWrt, Windows
  
  IBM Tivoli Storage Manager: Now also for Linux
- Logwatch with configurable retention period to prevent loss of log messages
- check_mk_agent --force-inventory command for debugging of HW/SW inventory
Done
Agent bakery improvements
- New configuration options for
  
  Text logfiles: Retention period, further log file filtering, APPEND message classification (for multi-line stack traces)
  
  Redis: Connect via Unix socket
  
  MySQL: Multiple sockets & aliases
- Quality of Life improvements
  
  No more need for repeated bake & sign to fix “signature #n is invalid”
  
  Logging for Bakery
Done
Improved Checkmk self-monitoring
- Checkmk site disk usage
- Checkmk performance monitoring for Carbon, InfluxDB and RRD connection
- Checkmk agent monitoring for controller certificate validity, agent updater certificate, and exclusion from agent updates
Done
Further new and improved monitoring integrations
- New monitoring integrations
  
  Ivanti Neurons MDM (formerly known as MobileIron Cloud)
  
  Cisco Meraki
  
  Nvidia (for Windows)
  
  systemd sockets
  
  SAP SQL Anywhere
  
  PrimeKey by Keyfactor
  
  BeyondTrust
  
  APC netbotz
- 40+ integrations supporting further systems
- 80+ integrations with additions to metrics, rulesets and more, e.g.
  
  Events & Alerts for Graylog
  
  Volume Efficiency for NetApp
  
  Additional data in vSphere monitoring
  
  Magic factor added for Sansymphony Pool
  
  Levels for size of PostgreSQL databases
Done

Synthetic monitoring
- 'Synthetically' mimic interactions of users with target systems to verify applications work as expected
- Monitoring of synthetic tests based on Robot Framework by integrating the project Robotmk
- Extend with automated test node management and parallel test execution
Done
Checkmk-as-a-Service

A SaaS version of Checkmk.

In progress
Make upgrades a breeze
- Developer APIs for every aspect of plug-in development for better handling of MKPs / extensions in updates
  
  Metric plug-ins (incl. Perfometer) API
  
  Rulesets API
  
  Command API: Special Agent / Active Check parameterization
Done
Improve usability
- Improve the Checkmk performance in very large environments (50k+ hosts)
- Easier work with labels
  
  Support AND/OR/NOT for labels in rules^(FP)
  
  Automatic service label refresh^(FP)
  
  Automatic creation of labels based on the OS, distribution and version of the agent platform^(FP)
- Easier work with folders
  
  Natural case-insensitive sorting of hosts and folders^(FP)
  
  Extend filter in host setup to also include folders^(FP)
- Streamline user workflows in Checkmk
  
  Rework the 'Schedule downtime' dialog
  
  Rework the 'Acknowledge problem' dialog
  
  Improve 'Command' dialogs
- Test notifications for a specific service / improve 'fake check results'^(FP)
- Show user who is currently activating changes^(FP)
- Top hosts/services^(FP)
- Layer 2 network topology visualization
- Many UX quick-wins
Done
Extend monitoring integrations
- Arista BGP plug updates
- PureStorage FlashArray^(FP)
- Generic Redfish integration^(FP)
- Reworked Nutanix monitoring
- Official support for VMware Tanzu
Done
Checkmk Cloud Edition for Managed Services

Make the features available in the Cloud Edition also available in the Managed Services Edition.

Done
Feature debt reduction
- Migrate NetApp special agent to new REST API^(FP)
- Update Checkmk Appliance to Debian 12
- Update all Microsoft mail integrations with authentication^{(FP, FP)}
- Improve check_http^(FP)
- More stability for ntop integration (use latest ntop APIs)
Done
Internal engineering requirements
- Rewrite of MSSQL plugin^(FP)
- Type annotations
- 'Livestatus as a library'
- Improve python module layering
Done

General direction
- Automated network topology
- Rework of dynamic configuration handling
- Rework of notifications
- Simplified workflows for complex monitoring integrations
- Handling of piggyback data in distributed environments
- Improving monitoring of out-of-band-management
- Better integration between Checkmk server and agents
- FIPS compliance
- OpenTelemetry support
- Further complement already existing monitoring for
  
  Cloud services
  
  Kubernetes
  
  Logs
  
  Applications
- Better visualization options (e.g. maps) and configuration
- New UI framework
- Checkmk App
- Continue to work on improving Checkmk’s usability by simplifying and streamlining the UI
Planned