How-to group services in table view

Owned by Anastasios Thomaidis
Last updated: Oct 14, 2024 by Matthew Hierholzer
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If you have hosts like database hosts or switches showing a lot of services in Checkmk, there is a way to group the services in the table view.

LAST TESTED ON CHECKMK 2.3.0P1

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Step-by-step guide

Here you can add the regular expression of the grouped services. In this case, we want to group all Oracle Services starting with "ORA", by using the ORA.* regex:
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Setup → General → Global settings → User interface → Grouping of services in table views

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After saving the rule, the Service view of the host will be changed like that.


Screenshot of oracle services grouped together within the UI


Checkmk will show only the ORA WARN/CRIT/UNKN/PEND Services outside the group. All the ORA OK Services will be displayed inside the group:


Screenshot of the oracle service group expanded to see all services.