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Werk #19391: Checkmk Edition Renaming

Component Core & setup
Title Checkmk Edition Renaming
Date Nov 19, 2025
Level Major Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Incompatible - Manual interaction might be required
Checkmk versions & editions
2.5.0b1
Not yet released 		Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.4.0p24
Not yet released 		Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.3.0p45
Not yet released 		Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

To simplify our product portfolio and improve clarity, we are updating the names of the Checkmk editions. This change is being rolled out across multiple releases, affecting product titles, internal identifiers, and package names, depending on the release.

Checkmk 2.3 and 2.4

In the stable versions 2.3 and 2.4, the product titles are changed to maintain consistency with the new product lineup on the website and in other customer-facing communication that is changed short before the 2.5 release. The internal identifiers remain unchanged in these releases to ensure stability and compatibility. The following renamings will be executed:

  • Checkmk Raw Edition to Checkmk Community
  • Checkmk Enterprise Edition to Checkmk Pro
  • Checkmk Cloud Edition to Checkmk Ultimate
  • Checkmk Managed Services Edition to Checkmk Ultimate with Multi-Tenancy
  • Checkmk Cloud (SaaS) to Checkmk Cloud
  • Identifiers raw and cre remain unchanged
  • Identifiers enterprise and cee remain unchanged
  • Identifiers cloud and cce remain unchanged
  • Identifiers managed and cme remain unchanged
  • Identifiers saas and cse remain unchanged

For example, package names will thus not change, so that any scripts for downloading and installing should not be impacted.

Checkmk 2.5

With the release of Checkmk 2.5, product titles and edition identifiers are changed. The long identifiers (e.g. raw, enterprise) are changed. The short identifiers (e.g. cre, cee) are replaced with the long identifiers to reduce the complexity. The following renamings will be executed:

  • Checkmk Raw Edition to Checkmk Community
  • Checkmk Enterprise Edition to Checkmk Pro
  • Checkmk Cloud Edition to Checkmk Ultimate
  • Checkmk Managed Services Edition to Checkmk Ultimate with Multi-Tenancy
  • Checkmk Cloud (SaaS) to Checkmk Cloud
  • Identifiers raw and cre to community
  • Identifiers enterprise and cee to pro
  • Identifiers cloud and cce to ultimate
  • Identifiers managed and cme to ultimatemt
  • Identifiers saas and cse to cloud

Things to verify before updating to 2.5

This change is quite fundamental to the Checkmk ecosystem and likely have an impact on community extensions and your automations. Please note the following:

  1. The three-letter short identifiers (e.g., cre, cee) are replaced. If you use them somewhere, you will have to change to the long identifiers.
  2. Packages are renamed (e.g., check-mk-enterprise-... to check-mk-pro-...). Should you use any kind of script or automation, you will have to update it.
  3. Our docker images are renamed as well. From 2.5 on all docker images can be found on Docker Hub using the new identifiers. Please note: Checkmk Pro (formerly enterprise) is moved from our private registry to Docker Hub as well. All deployments need to be updated to pull the images using the new names.
  4. Users who query Livestatus on the edition field in the table status need to adjust their queries. When your queries are executed against multiple Checkmk versions, you need to use program_version to disambiguate the response, as the edition field change to the new long name, which could introduce ambiguity (e.g., cloud refers to Checkmk Cloud (SaaS) from 2.5 on and the Checkmk Cloud (self-hosted) edition in 2.4).
  5. The REST API uses the new identifiers as well.
  6. If you interact with the /version endpoint, you will notice that the edition field now returns the new identifiers.
  7. The HTTP header X-Checkmk-Edition contains the new identifiers
  8. The Grafana data source has been updated to adapt to the new edition names. So you should update the Checkmk Grafana data source extension to the latest version before updating to 2.5.

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