2026 June-July Community Bulletin

[Sara]

Hello Community!

Two months of summer are gone and here is time for the Community Bulletin!

Checkmk Events

Checkmk Conference #12

We had a great conference with new formats, great speakers and useful tips on monitoring and observability.
If you missed it, check out the recordings and slides on the Conference website: The Checkmk Conference Archive

And see you at the Conference #13!

Community Call: Views 3.0

We introduced new views to get your feedback!
We had a great call where our PM Monika demoed and explained the change. If you were not able to attend, please take a look at the slides, try the new views and let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

Community Call: Views 3.0

Hello Community! Views are one of the most-used parts of Checkmk – and one of the parts you’d most like to see scale better. We hear you, and we’re excited to present the reworked Views 3.0! You wanted faster navigation, filtering without building new views, and details on the same page – so we rebuilt the two most critical views, “All hosts” and “Services of a host”, from scratch. We’ll soon port the changes into Checkmk 2.5 – and we need your feedback to polish the work. The call will be le…

Checkmk Cloud Livestream

The video is back online! Check it out, if you missed it.

Checkmk Cloud Update and Livestream

Hi all! The recording of the livestream is available again: https://youtu.be/OMRSd6OVxw4

New Community Projects

• Orbvis (an alternative to NagVis) in Checkmk is still gathering testers and feedback OrbVis — a NagVis successor candidate (developer preview, feedback welcome)
• Generic JSON API – another community project by a Checkmk colleague! Feel free to share your feedback or ideas: Generic JSON API — monitor any HTTP/JSON endpoint without writing a plugin
• Plugin creation tips from the team (or ways to avoid plugin creation altogether): Template: build Checkmk GUI plugins with a native Vue frontend, Speeding up Checkmk development with the VS Code extension, It's getting hot in here!, Transfer SNMP data over a piggyback like mechanism
• Huawei OceanStor monitoring plugin for Checkmk by @fabian.binder : Huawei OceanStor monitoring plugin for Checkmk
• MCP server for Checkmk: I built an MCP Server that adds AI to Checkmk monitoring
• Proxmox Backup Server - Agent Plugin: Proxmox Backup Server - Agent Plugin
• Proxmox VE - Agent Plugin: Proxmox VE - Agent Plugin
• Unofficial Checkmk App: Unofficial Checkmk App now available

Check out more community projects here: Community Project Announcements - Checkmk Forum

Community Meta

Contributor Raffle!

This is something we have been preparing for some time now – a new way of saying thank you to the most active community members.
Check out the rules and let me know if you have any questions! Checkmk Contributor Raffle!

Missing Badges

After a major update of the Forum, there was a schema change which was, unfortunately missed. Due to that, the badges for solutions like Community Hero, Community Ally, Community Problem Solver and Community Helper were not assigned correctly
I now fixed this and all the badges should be correct. We also adjusted the update process, so that this does not happen again.
Please accept my apologies, if you were affected by this and please let me know if you think that you are still missing some badges or if you have questions.

Checkmk Research – Currently running surveys

LLM and AI Features

We are running a survey to learn about your preferences and needs in AI features. Help us understand what could be the best option and bring the most value to you:

Survey: LLM Availability & AI Features

Hello Community, We’re currently exploring how Checkmk should build AI features and we are also curious about which AI tools you already use. To help us understand what features would be the most beneficial for your monitoring and observability, please consider taking part in this survey. Survey: LLM Availability & AI Features The survey takes about 10 minutes. Thank you for helping us build a better Checkmk! Thanks, Annika

Network Monitoring Interview

We are looking for participants for an interview regarding Network Monitoring. Please sign up here:

Call for participants: Network Monitoring

Hello community We are currently digging deep into Network Monitoring, and specifically network traffic and flows. To build something that is valuable and helpful, we are looking for network monitoring practitioners whom we can invite to occasional research sessions. This will help us learn how you work and get your feedback on concepts we’re developing. If you are interested, please: Fill out the survey It takes about 5 minutes and helps us underst…

Business Intelligence

Our colleague Cedric is gathering insights on BI feature and looking for interviewees. If this is a feature you use, feel free to sign up here:

Survey - Business Intelligence

Hi everyone, I’m Cedric Archenoul from Checkmk’s Product Management team. We’re taking a closer look at the Business Intelligence (BI) feature — how it’s being used today, where it works well, and where it falls short. Your answers will directly shape what we prioritize next for BI. It takes about 5–10 minutes, and we may follow up with a few of you for a short interview to dig deeper. Survey: Business intelligence Thanks for helping us build a better Checkmk! Cedric

Network Flow Monitoring

Please share what your network flow is like – so we could help you monitor it better!

Survey: Network Flow Monitoring - the what and how

Greetings community, the heat wave isn’t the only thing cooking right now, we have something on the stove too: Network Flow Monitoring! It’s coming to Checkmk (soon ) and we want the defaults to fit your real installations, not something we have made up. So we’re now gathering insight into how the scope of flow collection relates to the size of a Checkmk installation, across different environments and network designs. Important: You don’t need to be collecting flow data today. If …

Releases

For 2.3: [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.3.0p48, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.3.0p49
For 2.4: [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p31, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p32, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p33, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p34, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p35
For 2.5: [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.5.0p5, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.5.0p6, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.5.0p7, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.5.0p8, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.5.0p9, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.5.0p10
Appliance: Checkmk Appliance firmware 1.7.22 released

Top New Product Ideas in June and July

Allow naming conventions for host names in global settings
Make Downtime Presets configurable
Automatic deletion of SAML Users in CheckMK
Improve transparency of “Use new service names” setting
allow the Relay to act as a Gateway for Web checks, Agent and automatic Agent Updater
Allow selective piggyback data to be sync across customers in Ultimate with MT
Convert Discovery Rules to Enforced Rules (and vice versa)

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

Community Achievements

New Community Helpers

Although later, but I want to say thank you to all of you, new Community Helpers!

@logan-connolly
@manuel-frank
@mmartin
@mayrstefan
@georgep
@Mathieu
@joernc
@okin
@lracic
@mimimi
@otAAAh
@muhviehstarr

New Community Problem Solvers

@burgeau
@HartmutLeister

New Community Hero!

@BH2005

Thank you all for your continuous engagement and help. This is truly what makes this community special!

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Have a great August!

Sara