Werk #17110: Don't crash on broken plugins unless in debug mode

Component

Checks & agents

Title

Don't crash on broken plugins unless in debug mode

Date

Jun 24, 2024

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.4.0b1 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.3.0p8	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

This is a regression in Checkmk 2.3 that only affects plugin developers. Individual broken plugins could make the whole plugin loading crash. Now the error is only reported, and the plugin is skipped. For the debugging purposes, the crashing can be triggered using the --debug flag.

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