How-to group services in table view

Owned by Anastasios Thomaidis
Last updated: Dec 11, 2023 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 2.2.0P1

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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 from "ORA"
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  1. Setup → General → Global settings → User interface → Grouping of services in table views

    Screenshot of grouping of services in table views option within global settings.
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  2. After saving the rule, the Service view of the host will be changed like that.

    Screenshot of oracle services grouped together within the UI

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

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