2026 March Community Bulletin

[Sara]

Hello Community!

March is over, which means it is time for the new Community Bulletin!

Checkmk 2.5 Beta

Checkmk 2.5 is ready for Beta testing!

Join us in testing Checkmk 2.5! And let us know how Checkmk 2.5 performs in your environment!

Checkmk 2.5 Beta and Community Call

Hello Community! We are pleased to announce that we are ready to launch the Beta Testing phase for Checkmk 2.5! This release introduces a number of significant improvements, including enhanced Azure monitoring, OTel integration for cloud-focused editions, new dashboards, and various interface refinements. We have dedicated the past months to thorough testing and checking of all changes, and we expect that all major issues have been identified and resolved. However, since we can…

Beta releases until now: [Release] Checkmk beta release 2.5.0b1, [Release] Checkmk beta release 2.5.0b2, [Release] Checkmk beta release 2.5.0b3

New Checkmk Edition Lineup!

Now

Checkmk Community — formerly: Checkmk Raw

Checkmk Pro — formerly: Checkmk Enterprise

Checkmk Ultimate — formerly: Checkmk Cloud self-hosted

Checkmk Ultimate with Multi-Tenancy — formerly: Checkmk MSP

Checkmk Cloud — formerly: Checkmk Cloud (SaaS)

Learn more about the changes: New Checkmk Editions Lineup

Checkmk Research

Survey: Views and Dashboards in Checkmk

When do you use dashboards? When do you use views? Let us know: Survey: Views and Dashboards in Checkmk

Interview: Synthetic Monitoring and Robotmk

Another question we have for you: how do you use Robotmk? Let us know what you think in an interview, so we could make the feature more useful to you!

Your input matters: Robotmk/Synthetic Monitoring

Hello, now is the perfect opportunity for you to help shape the future of Robotmk/Synthetic Monitoring in Checkmk! We’re currently giving a lot of thought to how we can improve the representation of Synthetic Monitoring/Robotmk services in Checkmk. We’d like to validate our assumptions through interviews with a selected group of users. We value and appreciate your time, so the interview is limited to 45 minutes There’s nothing y…

Poll: How do you work with graphs?

1-minute poll to let us know, how you work with graphs and what is critical for your workflow: How do you work with graphs? [1 minute poll]

Releases

For 2.3: [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.3.0p43, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.3.0p44, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.3.0p45

For 2.4: [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p23, [Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p24

Appliance: Checkmk Appliance firmware 1.7.16 released, Checkmk Appliance firmware 1.7.17 released

Top New Product Ideas in February

• httpv2: show certificate CN
• MSSQL Plugin: Handle non-readable secondary replicas in Always On Availability Groups gracefully
• Agent Buffering
• Graphs: consistent pan & zoom for graphs (X and Y axes)
• Show the execution time of plugins / local scripts
• Add View (or dashboard) Options for Acknowledged Service/Hosts with filtering options
• “Virtual Machine Snapshots” - add a “max snaphshot” count
• Checkmk agent support for immutable container hosts
• Deprecated rules: Add a hint to inform users on flow to use instead
• SAML: SCIM Provisioning

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

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Wishing you great Beta Testing,

Sara