2025-2026 December - January Community Bulletin

[Sara]

Hello Community!

February is here and we gathered the community news for both December and January to share them with you!

Past Events

Dashboards Bug Bash

We had a great New Dashboards Bug Bash on December 2nd. We have been fixing found bugs already! Thank you to all who participated.

Roadmap Community Call

We saw a great interest and a lot of questions from you on this one. Thank you for attending and showing your interest in the future of Checkmk!

Learn more about the future of Checkmk at Checkmk Conference: https://conference.checkmk.com/

Checkmk at FOSDEM 2026

We attended FOSDEM once again! We were happy to see some of you and to receive hellos

Upcoming Events

Azure Monitoring Update

We have been working on improving Azure monitoring in Checkmk and now we want to share the results with you! Join us on February 25th for a Community call:

Community Call: Improving Azure Monitoring in Checkmk 2.5

Hello Community! In the past year, we’ve put a lot of work into improving how Checkmk monitors Azure. We’re looking forward to sharing the results with you and discussing the specific challenges we wanted to solve. Join us for a community call with our Product Manager, @MSaleh, who has been leading this initiative. We’ll walk through the new features and, importantly, talk about how to migrate to the new version so you can start using the updates straight away. The call will tak…

Developer Hour

The next DevHour covering the updates in DevAPIs and questions you have on developing Checkmk plugins is taking place on March 4th!

Developer Hour: New APIs in Checkmk 2.5

Hello Community! As we come closer to the 2.5 release, we want to support everyone who are writing their own Checkmk extensions and have a call, where one of our experts in plugin development will present the new DevAPIs and also answer your questions about using them and about migrating. If your question is more complicated, please consider adding it to the document in advance – this way we will make sure we have an answer for you. Looking forward to meeting you on Zoom on Marc…

New Blog

Want to learn more about Debian 13 and how to monitor it? Check out the new blog: New Blogpost: What Checkmk administrators need to know about Debian 13, RHEL 10 & Co

Checkmk Research

Checkmk Satisfaction Survey

You still have a chance to share your experience with us: How satisfied are you with Checkmk?

Testing a new AI feature

We are searching for interview participants to learn more about a potential new AI feature: Call for participants: Test our new AI feature

Your Checkmk Setup

Help us understand your monitoring setup so we could make Checkmk better: Survey: Your Checkmk Setup

Releases

For 2.3: [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.3.0p42

For 2.4: [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p17, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p18, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p19, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p20

Top New Product Ideas in December and January

Views: Extend Host Groups Data Source

Improve custom host attribute deletion

VMware vCenter and ESXi license expiry check

Linux Agent: Remove cache files on host reboot

Set the downtime/maintenance flag directly on a (windows) host

Automatic SSL certificate discovery

Dashboard: New element for pictures and picture upload

Checkmk should support AES256C (Cisco)

Dashboards: add custom widgets under ~/local/lib/python3/cmk_addons/

Reintroduce “From now for” option for setting downtimes (removed in 2.3)

More Options for submitting new firmware or checkmk versions

Automatically Clean Up pycache Directories ~/local/ path after MKP Changes

Backup setup for remote sites

Pending changes: add rule description at pending changes

Add docker labels as Host labels

Check out other new ideas in the portal and vote for what you think is important!

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Looking forward for the spring to come together with you,

Sara