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Werk #20016: Proxmox VE: Export VM tags as host labels

Component Checks & agents
Title Proxmox VE: Export VM tags as host labels
Date Jul 7, 2026
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
3.0.0b1
Not yet released
Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Cloud, Checkmk Ultimate MT

The Proxmox VE special agent now recognizes the tags you set on your VMs and LXC containers in Proxmox and exports them as Checkmk host labels.

Each tag becomes a host label of the form cmk/pve/tag/<tag>:yes, alongside the existing cmk/pve/entity and cmk/pve/cluster labels. If a VM carries several tags, you get one label per tag. You can then use these labels to organize, filter, and target your Proxmox hosts in Checkmk based on the same tagging scheme you already maintain in Proxmox.

This change does not affect existing setups: VMs without tags simply produce no tag labels, and no reconfiguration is required.

This feature is based on a community contribution to the comnetgmbh/proxmox_quick_setup extension.

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