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OSMC 2023 | Newest developments in Checkmk Raw – the open-source monitoring solution by Lars Michelsen
The document outlines the latest developments in Checkmk, an open-source IT monitoring solution since 2004, focusing on advancements in version 2.2 and enhancements like a new user interface, improved agent architecture, and new features for cloud and hybrid infrastructures. It emphasizes the Checkmk community's growth, with over 6,000 users and significant contributions from developers, including new plugins and integrations. Future directions for Checkmk include expanding monitoring capabilities and synthetic monitoring to improve application performance verification.
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- 1. checkmk.com Newest developments inCheckmk Raw Open Source Monitoring Conference 2023
- 2. Open source monitoringsince 2004 (Nagios) Start of Checkmk development First employee at Mathias Kettner GmbH Linux training, consulting and software development Maintainer of NagVis https://github.com/nagvis 2 Lars Michelsen Checkmk GmbH Head of Development
- 3. Focus: our opensource solution & community Raw Edition Free & open source IT monitoring for small- and mid-sized infrastructures. Monitor your entire IT: ⬡ Auto-discover your IT ⬡ Monitor out-of-the-box with 2000+ plug-ins ⬡ Auto-detect issues and more Support: Checkmk Community Enterprise Edition Scalable and automated enterprise-wide IT monitoring. Everything in Raw, plus: ⬡ Speed up your monitoring ⬡ Scale up your monitoring ⬡ Automate your monitoring ⬡ Monitor dynamic workloads ⬡ Visualize your IT and much more Support: Enterprise-grade Cloud Edition State-of-the-art IT monitoring for cloud and hybrid infrastructures. Everything in Enterprise, plus: ⬡ Monitor cloud workloads ⬡ Deploy from cloud marketplaces ⬡ Auto-register any load ⬡ Push and pull agents ⬡ Visualize your cloud and much more Support: Enterprise-grade 3
- 4. 01 What’s newin Checkmk Raw (since our last talk at OSMC) 02 About the Checkmk ecosystem 03 Behind the scenes 04 What’s next for Checkmk 4 Agenda
- 5. A new userinterface 5
- 6. 6 Checkmk Raw nowalso with nice graphing!
- 7. 7 New agent architecturewith TLS encryption Plain text by default ⬡ No encryption, obviously… Agent encryption (AES) ⬡ Has to be activated and deployed ⬡ No authentication SSH (Custom datasource) ⬡ Complicated setup Before TLS activated by default ⬡ Encryption and authentication Done by Checkmk agent controller ⬡ Included in Linux .deb, .rpm and Windows .msi agent packages Since Checkmk 2.1
- 8. 8 Mature REST-API forconfiguration and operation Monitoring SLA Acknowledgements Comments Downtimes Event Console Host status Metrics Service status Setup Agents Activate changes Auxiliary tags Business Intelligence Contact groups Folders Hosts Host groups Host tag groups Setup Password store Rules Rule sets Service discovery Service groups Site Mgmt Time periods Users User roles Largely covered by Web API REST API Only partially covered by Web API
- 9. 9 Development APIs forcheck plug-ins
- 10. 10 More recent changesin Checkmk Raw 2.2 (May ‘23)
- 11. 11 Create complex labelfilters in views and dashboards
- 12. Visible improvements ⬢ Stability& Performance ⬡ More efficient API calls ⬢ Quality of Life improvements ⬡ Simplified interface ⬡ Raw and Enterprise more similar ⬡ More explicit errors, if too many results are found ⬡ Graphs colors same as in CMK 12 Internal improvements ⬢ Update to newest Grafana API ⬢ Higher long-term software quality ⬡ CI for building releases ⬡ End-to-End tests for core features ⬡ More unit tests ⬡ Typescript type safety ⬢ License changed to Apache-2.0 Introducing Grafana integration 3.0.0 For Checkmk >= 2.1.0 and Grafana >= 8.0 https://github.com/Checkmk/grafana-checkmk-datasource
- 13. Variable support isfinally available with 3.1 13 GitHub project with pull requests and issues
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- 15. User Experience - Do/clickthe right things - Simpler configuration - Better error messages - Make things readable - Only show relevant information 15 And many more improvements… Visualization: more flexibility in views - Macros - RegEx matching - Combining tables ‘Freeze mode’ for Business Intelligence Performance - Caching & optimized file formats - Loading of filters - Service discovery - Activate changes - Rules & searches - Notification processing - Event Console - Distributed monitoring Check plug-ins - 30+ new check plug-ins (incl. Google Cloud monitoring) - 40+ checks supporting further systems - 80+ checks with additions to metrics, rulesets Password store for all special agents Steps towards unified agent behaviour for Linux, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenWrt, Windows Reworked extension packages mechanisms Pre-flight check before Checkmk updates Improved service discovery MS Teams integration
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- 17. 17 The Checkmk Community Userforum >6.000 users >10,000 daily visits Translations 6 languages Integration exchange 540+ packages GitHub >180 contributors
- 18. 18 Checkmk Ansible Collection Agent ⬢Initial installation ⬢ Registrations ⬢ Supports all relevant Linux distributions Server ⬢ Initial installation ⬢ Site management ⬢ Site updates ⬢ Supports all relevant Linux distributions https://github.com/Checkmk/grafana-checkmk-datasource
- 19. 19 CMDB Syncer Rule-based andmodular system to synchronize hosts into and between Checkmk, Netbox and other systems. Main goal is the complete organization of hosts based on CMDB systems https://github.com/kuhn-ruess/cmdbsyncer | https://cmdbsyncer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- 20. 20 Automatic Label Discovery https://github.com/automation-monitoring/labelpicker| https://labelpicker.mk/ Vmware Tags for a VM Checkmk Label:
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- 22. Checkmk — Aboutus 150+ employees Based in Munich, Germany, and Atlanta, USA Focusing on IT monitoring for 15+ years Open-source enthusiasts # Commercial customers 22
- 23. 23 Our tech organizationhas grown a lot 9 13 20 28 38 59 75
- 24. 24 What’s next forCheckmk
- 25. 25 Our product focus Infrastructure Applications Monitorapplications from the user perspective. Synthetic monitoring The best solution for monitoring hybrid IT. For system administrators / DevOps. Broad coverage out-of-the-box for all technologies.
- 26. 26 “Synthetic” monitoring “Synthetically” mimicinteractions of users with target systems to verify applications work as expected
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- 29. 29 The plan forCheckmk 2.3 More monitoring Improve core features More developer APIs SaaS Product (2024) Synthetic Monitoring Configuration Visualization User Experience Performance
- 30. Questions? Thank you! 30 More aboutCheckmk: https://checkmk.com Contact: ⬢ Email: lm (at) checkmk.com ⬢ X: @LarsMichelsen ⬢ GitHub: https://github.com/LarsMichelsen