Support portal - Definition of priorities and impact

Owned by Walter Fisch
Last updated: Oct 20, 2023 by Matthew Hierholzer
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It is critical that you use the appropriate priority/impact not only for measurement and metrics purposes on our end but also for your ticket to be given the correct priority.
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Please keep in mind to open only one issue per ticket.

Support reserves the right to correct a user misentered priority level.

Critical business impact

  • This represents a total loss of service, which cannot be resolved by restarting
  • No workaround is immediately available
  • Impact on business operations must be critical
  • Only available for existing production systems of Checkmk
  • Only available for stable CEE or MSE up to 30 months after the first stable release of that version

Significant business impact

  • Checkmk is usable, but significant functionality is severely impaired, and no acceptable workaround is available
  • The issue is critical to customer's business operations:
    • Critical component returning error / not responding, but the software overall remains operational
    • A degraded Checkmk performance with a serious negative business impact
    • Checkmk has service interruptions that can be temporarily resolved by restarting the service or via a workaround
  • Only available for existing production systems of Checkmk
  • Only available for stable CEE or MSE up to 30 months after the first stable release of that version

Limited business impact

  • Checkmk is usable, but noncritical functionality is impaired:
    • time-sensitive issue important to long-term productivity that is not causing an immediate work stoppage
    • noncritical component returning an error or not responding
    • degraded performance is negatively impacting business operations; an acceptable workaround may exist
    • issue is specific to one or a few users
  • Includes all problems with plug-ins or local checks
  • Available for all environments (production, development, ...)
  • Only available for stable CEE or MSE up to 30 months after the first stable release of that version

Minimal business impact

  • The problem does not significantly impact operations, or a reasonable workaround has been implemented (e.g., general information requests, such as "how-to "; issue with little or no impact on quality, performance, or functionality; documentation issues or GUI details; Issue is essentially resolved but remains open for customer confirmation)
  • Available for all environments (production, development, ...)
  • Only available for stable CEE or MSE up to 30 months after the first stable release of that version