Conference Day 1: June 20, 2023
The conference’s opening day, which will be partially livestreamed, takes place on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at the Paulaner am Nockherberg.
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09:30Knowledge Fair & Breakfast09:30 - 11:00
Take the opportunity to talk to our developers and consultants before the first presentation of the day. Accompanied by bits and bites for breakfast, you will find several booths at the conference location where you can ask specific questions to the team behind Checkmk. Benefit from some more dedicated time to clarify, understand, network, and exchange with the community.
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11:00Welcome Introduction11:00 - 11:10Mathias Kettner
Founder Mathias Kettner and CEO Jan Justus welcome you to the 9th Checkmk Conference in the unique historic location of the Paulaner am Nockherberg.
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11:10State of Checkmk11:10 - 11:45Jan Justus
From 2.2 to the future! Join CEO Jan Justus in his keynote speech on the future of monitoring with Checkmk.
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11:45New in 2.2: Automating Checkmk11:45 - 12:30Jörg Herbel
In 2.2., we introduce many features that make Checkmk more automated and ready for superior hybrid monitoring. In this presentation, we explain the new push option for agent communication, how host creation and removal can be automated via the agent, extensions to the REST-API, and more.
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12:30Lunch Break12:30 - 14:00
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14:00New in 2.2: User Interface14:00 - 14:45Lars Michelsen
In 2.2., we further expanded the capabilities of the user interface. In this talk we walk through the lastest updates for Dashboarding, Views, and the Grafana integration.
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14:45New in 2.2: Check Engine and More14:45 - 15:30Moritz Kiemer
With Checkmk we aim to monitor "everything" in the hybrid world, both in cloud native and traditional infrastructures. In this talk we walk through the latest monitoring additions, including for AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes and Openshift, as well as data center workloads.
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15:30Coffee Break15:30 - 16:00
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16:00Monitoring of Very Large Network Infrastructures16:00 - 16:45Leon Stork (Finanz Informatik GmbH & Co. KG) & Hardy Düttmann (ITeratio GmbH)
Finanz Informatik operates and monitors the entire network of the German Sparkassen (saving banks) and Landesbanken for both central backend and decentralized branch offices. The monitoring of the approximately 100,000 components posed a number of special challenges, requiring customized solutions, such as
- Visualization of the layer2 topology
- Special sidebar snap-ins
- Fully automated provisioning of systems including their dependencies
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16:45Insights into Checkmk Development16:45 - 17:15Lars Michelsen
How are we actually spending our time and what do we focus on? In this talk, our Head of Engineering Lars will take you 'into the engine room' and share how our development teams are structured and which internal prioritities the development team is working on to deliver a better Checkmk every day.
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17:15More Than Just Aesthetics: Tackling UX in Checkmk17:15 - 17:45Tanja Hohenstatt
Over the last months, we have strengthened our UX processes. Our UX Designer Tanja will share what we have done recently, what is upcoming and how we plan to involve the community.
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19:00Evening Event19:00 - 23:59
This year's evening event will take place at the Muffatwerk, providing all those taking part in the conference in Munich the possibility to interact in person. It's the perfect time to let the first insightful conference day sink in. Enjoy some music, delicious food and drinks together.
Conference Day 2: June 21, 2023
The second conference day on Wednesday is also taking place at the Paulaner am Nockherberg and will close the official part for every participant – online and on-site.
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09:00Knowledge Fair & Breakfast09:00 - 10:00
Take the opportunity to talk to our developers and consultants before the first presentation of the day. Accompanied by bits and bites for breakfast, you will find several booths in the conference location where you can direct specific questions to the team behind Checkmk. Benefit from some more dedicated time to clarify, understand, network, and exchange with the community.
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10:00Checkmk Ansible Collection10:00 - 10:30Robin Gierse
Ansible is a popular tool in IT which allows the automation and predictive replication of common IT tasks. The Checkmk Ansible Collection delivers a set of ready-to-use Ansible roles and modules, giving you a kick-start for your Checkmk projects.
In this talk, Robin will take you on a brief journey through the project's history and current state, outlining what it is all about. You will also get a glimpse of what the collection is capable of in a short demonstration.
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10:30Integrating Checkmk with the i-doit CMDB10:30 - 10:50Robert Frießleben (SHD GmbH)
With i-doit, you can build an IT Service Management system that serves as a database for your business and IT processes. The i-doit pro add-on Checkmk2 serves as a bi-directional data hub between these two worlds. It enables automated synchronization of information between IT monitoring and IT documentation, saving time and improving data consistency by maintaining the data in only one application, namely i-doit. Robert will explain which data can be maintained and owned in both i-doit and Checkmk, in order to establish a comprehensive IT Service Management.
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10:50Automate Host Management with External Sources (CMDB)10:50 - 11:10Bastian Kuhn (Kuhn & Rueß GmbH)
The CMDB Syncer helps you to populate your Checkmk with hosts, folders, host groups and rules based on external data sources. These sources can be CMDB systems like ServiceNow or Netbox, plain text files, or anything else accessible.
Based on the available data, the initial rollout of Checkmk agents to Linux and Windows hosts can also be triggered, and the hosts get all registrations on the Checkmk server. This closes the loop for the full automation of host management in Checkmk.
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11:10Automated System Updates as a Self-Service11:10 - 11:30Cosimo Russo & Fabian Binder (comNET GmbH)
Time has come for automated updates as a self-service in a controlled environment. Regular system updates play an important role in any IT infrastructure. However, planning and executing these updates can be a hassle.
comNET integrates Checkmk with NetBox and Ansible in order to perform updates based on monitoring data.
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11:30Automatic Label Discovery11:30 - 11:50Philipp Lemke (PL Automation Monitoring GmbH)
Extend the power of host labels by automatically creating or updating them based on data from the Checkmk HW/SW inventory.
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11:50Combining Tags and Labels11:50 - 12:10Robert Sander (Heinlein Consulting GmbH)
In Checkmk, host tags and labels are useful for organizing and grouping hosts and services based on common attributes. Host tags can represent any meaningful category, such as location, environment, or role. Service labels can be used to provide additional information about services, such as their function, owner, or SLA. Both tags and labels can be used to filter and search for hosts or services, to apply monitoring configurations, or for notifications.
This talk presents a clever combination of host tags and service labels to flexibly apply service levels to services based on the criticality of the service. These service levels can next be used in e.g. notifications.
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12:10Lunch Break12:10 - 13:45
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13:45Community Update13:45 - 14:00Sara Garifullina
A strong community has always supported Checkmk and helped it grow. We continue dedicating effort to building a stronger connection. In this session, we would like to look back and see how the community spent the last year, as well as find out what new ways of being involved in its members’ lives are available now.
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14:00Checkmk Synthetic Monitoring14:00 - 14:30Simon Meggle
Checkmk can already reveal many problems in IT environments. But at the end of the day, what matters is the quality and functionality of the services provided – to both internal and external customers. Synthetic monitoring provides the answers to these questions. This presentation shows the current integration of the used add-on 'Robotmk'.
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14:30The Checkmk 2.3 Roadmap14:30 - 15:30Martin Hirschvogel
A Checkmk Conference classic. Get an overview of the upcoming new Checkmk features and share your feedback interactively with us.
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15:30Farewell15:30 - 15:45Jan Justus & Mathias Kettner
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15:45After-Conference Bits & Bites15:45 - 18:00
Once the official part of the conference has ended, we will invite you to a farewell get-together with drinks and sweet snacks. On top of that, there will be some room for questions not answered in previous talks and much more. Take this special opportunity for some face-to-face networking with our Checkmk experts and the community.
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18:30Workshop Dinner18:30 - 22:30
Everybody having a workshop ticket for the third day will have access to our special Bavarian dinner after the main conference program of day 2. We are delighted to spend another evening with you, our community, while you're still in Munich. Let's reflect the conference exchange in a calm atmosphere while enjoying the best drinks and food from Paulaner am Nockherberg.
Conference Day 3: June 22, 2023
The third conference day is optional for those wanting to get even more out of their #CMKConf9 experience and deepen specific knowledge in one of our workshops. Find the generic schedule of our half-day and full-day workshops below. For more information on our workshops, check out the workshop section here.
Our workshops are on-site only to ensure the highest quality in interaction. A workshop ticket requires physical attendance at the Checkmk Conference #9.
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Morning Workshops08:30 - 12:00
The following workshops are offered as half-day workshops in the morning:
- Workshop #1: Automating Checkmk via the new REST-API [EN]
- Workshop #2: Security best practices [EN]
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Lunch Break12:00 - 13:30
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Afternoon Workshops13:30 - 17:00
The following workshops are offered as half-day workshops in the afternoon:
- Workshop #1: Automating Checkmk via the new REST-API [DE]
- Workshop #6: Linux and Windows monitoring best practices [EN]
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Full-Day Workshops Part 1: Morning08:30 - 12:00
The following workshops are offered as half-day workshops in the morning:
- Workshop #3: End-to-end monitoring with Robotmk [EN]
- Workshop #4: Introduction to Checkmk plug-in development [DE]
- Workshop #5: Advanced topics for Checkmk plug-in development [DE]
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Lunch Break12:00 - 13:30
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Full-Day Workshops Part 2: Afternoon13:30 - 17:00
The following workshops are offered as half-day workshops in the afternoon:
- Workshop #3: End-to-end monitoring with Robotmk [EN]
- Workshop #4: Introduction to Checkmk plug-in development [DE]
- Workshop #5: Advanced topics for Checkmk plug-in development [DE]