Since the Product Ideas section has been locked and I am not sure how or where else to post Ideas to help get traction/upvotes I am posting this here.
My issue is that the current active check “Check DNS service” only allows checking A records and PTR records and I would like to check more than just those two record types so I did some investigating.
Sadly it does look this is not very popular, or people are using some of the workarounds, as I only found a few forum posts one idea, and an ancient exchange extension:
https://exchange.checkmk.com/p/dnsx
You can see the additional details in the Idea that I posted here:https://ideas.checkmk.com/suggestions/569151/replace-or-extend-check-dns-service-to-use-check_dig-instead-of-the-current-chec
But the TL;DR or it is that checkmk uses the Monitoring Plugins version of Nagios plugins and not the Nagios Plugins version and the MP team does not want to extend the check_dns check to add additional query types as they have deprecated that plugin in favor of the check_dig one.
I think it would be very useful if we could monitor for more query types than just A and PTR (despite the apparent lack of chatter about this), and seeing as how the upstream maintainer does not want to update the check_dns plugin to support additional query types and recommends check_dig I’d love it if checkmk either extended the current “Check DNS service” active check to either support using either check_dns or check_dig or deprecated check_dns and only use check_dig.
Thank you!