Modern monitoring-visualisation platform for Checkmk and a community successor to NagVis. It plugs into the Checkmk main menu and sidebar, reuses the OMD session for SSO, talks Livestatus directly, and streams live state changes to the browser over Server-Sent Events (with an automatic polling fallback that rides through Checkmk's double-Apache proxy).
Board types: static, force-directed flow, severity radar, geo with OSM tiles, plus an experimental folder board built from the Checkmk SETUP hierarchy. Full host / service / hostgroup / servicegroup / BI object support, dynamic groups resolved live from a Livestatus filter, lines with arrows and weather-coloured perfdata, an optional NagVis classic render mode for faithful .cfg imports, light / dark theme that adopts Checkmk's own status colours, and an English / German UI.
Background, screenshots, motivation and discussion: Checkmk forum thread
This MKP targets Checkmk 2.5. MKPs for 2.3, 2.4 and 2.6 are on the GitHub releases page. Status: 0.4.1, GPL-2.0-only.
Uploading and enabling the MKP via the Checkmk GUI is not enough — you must run
orbvis-setuponce on the command line as the site user. The GUI cannot extract the frontend bundle, build the venv, register the OMD service or wire up Apache.
omd su SITE
mkp add ~/orbvis.mkp
mkp enable orbvis
orbvis-setup
After this, OrbVis appears in the Checkmk main menu and as a sidebar snapin. Authentication uses your existing Checkmk session.
Full install guide (requirements, what orbvis-setup does, upgrade, production hardening):
docs/install.md
Order matters — run the uninstall helper before disabling the MKP, so the OMD service, Apache snippet and venv are torn down while the package's hook scripts are still in place:
omd su SITE
orbvis-setup uninstall
mkp disable orbvis
mkp remove orbvis