Dear friends of Checkmk,
Checkmk 2.5.0 beta has started with the release of 2.5.0b1!
After extensive internal alpha testing, we’re excited to move forward with the public beta.
Here are a couple of things to keep in mind:
New in 2.5
Highlights of this release include significant improvements to monitoring for Proxmox, Hyper-V, Podman, and Azure.
You can now monitor virtually anything, thanks to the new Checkmk metric backend combined with powerful OpenTelemetry and Prometheus integrations.
The user interface has also undergone substantial changes, introducing numerous quality-of-life improvements that are almost impossible to overlook! And there is much more to discover!
A detailed list of changes can be found via the 1000+ werks in 2.5.0.
Further content will come in the following weeks and at the Checkmk conference in June.
Release notes, which provide an in-depth overview will be published with the stable release of Checkmk 2.5.0.
Important update hints
You can find the most important topics relevant to an update of your Checkmk from version 2.4.0 to version 2.5.0 in a dedicated article in our documentation. It is work in progress and will be completed over the next weeks.
Feedback
We would like to ask all users to try out the new version and help us ensure
that Checkmk 2.5.0 becomes a success.
- Anyone with a Checkmk subscription directly purchased from Checkmk: Beta support portal
- Anyone with a Checkmk subscription purchased via an official Checkmk partner: please submit via your partner the tickets (they can report issues free of charge in the beta support portal)
- Anyone without a subscription (and only these please): in this forum category
To provide you with all necessary information and answer any questions, we will host a community call about the Checkmk 2.5 beta testing with Gregor and Nadia, members of our QA team on 26th of March, at 3PM Berlin time. The link to the meeting will be provided in the announcements on forum.checkmk.com.
Keep in mind, it is a beta. Don’t run it in production!
You can download Checkmk from our download page: Download Checkmk for free | Checkmk
We greatly thank you for using Checkmk and wish you a successful monitoring,
Your Checkmk Team
