We're very excited to introduce Check Templates! Check Templates are a collection of saved settings you can assign to multiple checks. They come in three varieties:

Now, when creating a check, instead of manually entering in various settings, you can choose to use your Check Templates when configuring Schedule, Status & Notifications. If you need to edit settings in the future, you can quickly modify your check template & any check that is configured to use that template will automatically use the new settings.

You can also apply your templates to existing checks, either one at a time or via the Bulk Edit feature on the Checks page.

Check Templates can be created a couple of different ways:

To create a new check template from scratch, head to the Check Templates page (Checks -> Check Templates).

Simply click the Add Template button for the type of template you'd like to create. You'll be presented with the New Template page. Simply fill out the settings, give your new template a name, and it'll be ready to go.

If you'd like to copy settings from an existing check to a template, simply view the check you'd like to copy settings from. You'll see new Copy to Template buttons in the Status, Schedule & Notifications sections. Simply click the button, give your template a name, and it'll be ready to go.

To use your new templates, you can use the new Template selector when creating or editing a check. You'll see this dropdown in the Schedule, Status & Notifications sections when creating or editing a check:

Simply choose the template you'd like to use, and you'll see the settings included in the template displayed: This check will now use the selected settings included in the template.

To edit the settings in a template, simply head to the Check Templates page (Checks -> Check Templates) and click the Edit Template button beside the template you'd like to edit. Make your changes & save the template. Your new settings will automatically be applied to any checks that are configured to use this template.

Check Templates will simplify the management of your checks, and we're excited for you to start using them! This new feature is available across all subscription plans. If you have any questions, feedback, or other thoughts, please don't hesitate to contact us.

We're very excited to announce a great new feature to CheckCentral: direct integration with Datto BCDR! This feature allows you to pull backup statuses and alert on overdue backup verifications directly using Datto BCDR's API, instead of relying on email notifications sent into CheckCentral.

To get started with the Datto BCDR direct integration today, login to your CheckCentral organization and navigate to Services > Direct Integrations in the top menu. From there you can choose your integration and follow the steps in the wizard to get it all setup. Each of the wizard pages has help text on the right-hand side to walk you through all of the steps.

This new feature is available for all Enterprise and Custom subscription plans. If you have any questions, feedback, or other thoughts, please don't hesitate to contact us.

We're pleased to announce that we've added a new "Consecutive Issues" report type. This report will list any checks that have a configurable number of consecutive failures within the timeframe that you specify. This report is useful for those who want to quickly identify backups that are failing consistently.

To get started with a Consecutive Issues report, follow these steps:

This new report type is available across all subscription plans, and we hope the additional information will help make CheckCentral even more useful and easier to use. If you have any questions, feedback, or other thoughts, please don't hesitate to contact us.

We're happy to announce that we've added a new, dedicated page for viewing Current Issues in your CheckCentral org. On the Current Issues page, you can see all of the checks that are currently in a warning or success state. You can filter the list, and perform bulk actions on the checks. This page will also list subscription issues and other notices if there are any.

To get to the Current Issues page, click the "All Current Issues" link in the "Current Issues" box on the main dashboard, or click Organization > Current Issues from the top menu on the dashboard.

We've also added a new "Current Issue Size" option to the Organization > Settings page. This option allows you to control how many issues will be shown in the "Current Issues" box on dashboards. It does not affect the Current Issues page itself.

This new option is available across all subscription plans. If you have any questions, feedback, or other thoughts, please don't hesitate to contact us.

We're happy to announce that there's a new mode for External Ticketing Systems that allows you to have CheckCentral create new tickets for every failure and warning activity, but not update or close the existing tickets. This can be useful for Checks that receive miscellaneous alerts that don't need their state tracked. CheckCentral will create the ticket in your ticketing system, then you can investigate and resolve it on the ticketing side.

To configure this feature, you'll need global "Manager" privileges or higher. All global users that are "Read Only" and higher will see them once they are configured.

To enable this option, we recommend that you duplicate your existing External Ticketing System configuration, and then change the "Ticketing" dropdown to "Create new tickets but do not update or close." This way you can assign this setup only to the specific checks that need it.

This new option is available across all subscription plans. If you have any questions, feedback, or other thoughts, please don't hesitate to contact us.

We're happy to announce a new feature for CheckCentral dashboards, called Filtered Overviews. This feature allows you to add up to 6 additional mini "traffic light" elements to your dashboard. You can configure each one to filter on any combination of Check Groups and Check Labels.

To configure this feature, you'll need global "Manager" privileges or higher. All global users that are "Read Only" and higher will see them once they are configured.

To create your first Filtered Overview, follow the steps below:

This new option is available across all subscription plans. If you have any questions, feedback, or other thoughts, please don't hesitate to contact us.