Werk #13297: Setup (WATO) now uses Redis for certain lookups to improve GUI performance

Component Setup
Title Setup (WATO) now uses Redis for certain lookups to improve GUI performance
Date Apr 19, 2022
Checkmk Edition Checkmk Raw (CRE)
Checkmk Version 2.1.0b6 2.2.0b1
Level Prominent Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Large installations with several thousand hosts/folders suffered from a decreased performance when navigating through the folder hierarchy or when displaying rulesets. Furthermore, the global settings option Hide folders without read permissions made the entire setup system virtually unusable for non-admin users. Some of the data is now cached via Redis, which reduces needless calculations and file parsing.

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