Checkmk Conference #10 - Anniversary Edition
In June 2024, Checkmk celebrated the ten-year jubilee of the Checkmk Conference format from June 11-13. In this third hybrid set-up, more than 400 people came together at three premium locations in Munich, Germany. Also via the livestream, a total of 800 users joined this very special edition.
| Sessions | Presenter | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| State of Checkmk | Jan Justus | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk 2.3 at a glance | Martin Hirschvogel | Slides, Video |
| New in 2.3: Powerful & efficient monitoring of web services | Marcel Arentz | Slides, Video |
| Self service website monitoring with Checkmk | Thomas Schmitz & Michael Wulff (REWE digital) | Slides, Video |
| New in 2.3: Synthetic Monitoring has arrived! | Simon Meggle | Slides, Video |
| New in 2.3: Next generation database monitoring | Marcel Arentz | Slides, Video |
| New in 2.3: More developer APIs | Moritz Kiemer | Slides, Video |
| New in 2.3: Improved UX | Tanja Hohenstatt | Slides, Video |
| Energy efficiency in data centers measured, not guessed! | Babak Falsafi (SDEA) & Martin Hirschvogel | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk @ Deutsche Börse | Jens Kühnel (Deutsche Börse) | Slides, Video |
| Setting downtimes on related hosts/services automatically | Gerd Stolz & Michael Hoess (SVA) | Slides, Video |
| You should monitor your enterprise middleware! | Pedro Monteiro (Lynxmind) | Slides, Video |
| The horror of being an MSP | Sune Beermann (Runnerz) | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk Cloud - How I learned to stop worrying and love SaaS | Christian Reiser & Jonas Dieterle | Slides, Video |
| Cloud monitoring made simple: The future of multi-step workflows | Pung Manosroi | Slides, Video |
| You will love Checkmk notifications 2.4 | Tanja Hohenstatt | Slides, Video |
| What's next for Checkmk | Martin Hirschvogel & Lars Michelsen | Slides, Video |
Checkmk Conference #9
Since the last conference was such a success, the ninth Checkmk conference was once again held as a hybrid event from June 20 to June 22, 2023. Back at Paulaner am Nockherberg in Munich, the event took place in person and was livestreamed.
| Sessions | Presenter | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| The State of Checkmk | Jan Justus | Slides, Video |
| New in Checkmk 2.2: Automating Checkmk | Jörg Herbel | Slides, Video |
| New in Checkmk 2.2: User Interface | Lars Michelsen | Slides, Video |
| New in Checkmk 2.2: Check Engine and More | Moritz Kiemer | Slides, Video |
| Monitoring of Very Large Network Infrastructures | Leon Stork (Finanz Informatik) & Hardy Düttmann (ITeratio) | Video |
| Insights into Checkmk Development | Lars Michelsen | Slides, Video |
| More Than Just Aesthetics: Tackling UX in Checkmk | Tanja Hohenstatt | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk Ansible Collection | Robin Gierse | Slides, Video |
| Integrating Checkmk with the i-doit CMDB | Robert Frießleben (SHD) | Slides, Video |
| Automate Host Management with External Sources (CMDB) | Bastian Kuhn (Kuhn & Rueß) | Slides, Video |
| Automated System Updates as a Self-Service | Cosimo Russo & Fabian Binder (comNET) | Slides, Video |
| Automatic Label Discovery | Philipp Lemke (PL Automation Monitoring) | Slides, Video |
| Combining Tags and Labels | Robert Sander (Heinlein Consulting) | Slides, Video |
| Community Update | Sara Garifullina | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk Synthetic Monitoring | Simon Meggle | Slides, Video |
| The Checkmk 2.3 Roadmap | Martin Hirschvogel | Slides, Video |
Checkmk Conference #8
After taking place online for two years, the eighth Checkmk conference could finally proceed in person again from May 3 to May 5, 2022. The hybrid event was livestreamed from Munich at Paulaner am Nockherberg.
| Sessions | Presenter | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: State of Checkmk | Jan Justus | Slides, Video |
| Turbo-charging Checkmk: Incremental activation of changes | Lars Michelsen | Slides, Video |
| 2.1 feature and improvements roundup | Moritz Kiemer | Slides, Video |
| Introducing system dashboards and workflow improvements | Marcel Arentz | Slides, Video |
| New agent architecture with TLS encryption | Andreas Umbreit | Slides, Video |
| Product security updates | Lars Michelsen | Slides, Video |
| Influencing Checkmk development – The new process for requesting features and reporting bugs | Thomas Lippert | Slides, Video |
| AI-based anomaly detection on monitoring data | Nikolas Meinert (comNet) & Timo Lohrenz (Innovationsgesellschaft Technische Universität Braunschweig) | Slides, Video |
| Doing it wrong with Checkmk | Felix Frank (The unbelievable Machine Company GmbH) | Slides, Video |
| A generic no-code DCD CMDB connector | Gerd Stolz (SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH) & Niko Wenselowski (SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH) | |
| Featured new integrations: Grafana, InfluxDB, DataDog | Marcel Arentz | |
| Robotmk: The future of Synthetic Monitoring with Checkmk | Simon Meggle (ELABIT) | |
| Visibility into Kubernetes with Checkmk 2.1 | Martin Hirschvogel | |
| Cloud-native monitoring with Checkmk | Jörg Herbel & Thomas Lippert | |
| The Checkmk Roadmap | Lars Michelsen & Thomas Lippert |
Checkmk Conference #7
The seventh Checkmk Conference went online once again on 15–16 June 2021. We talked about the plans beyond Checkmk 2.0, including Checkmk in the cloud, improving our Kubernetes monitoring and much more.
| Sessions | Presenter | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Keynote | Jan Justus & Mathias Kettner | Slides, Video |
| The State of Checkmk | Lars Michelsen | Slides, Video |
| UX continued: Great visualizations, simplified workflows, high performance | Mathias Kettner | Slides, Video |
| Simplifying monitoring from the cloud | Thomas Lippert | Slides, Video |
| Automation, Integrations and security | Lars Michelsen | Slides, Video |
| Kubernetes Monitoring Revisited | Martin Hirschvogel | Slides, Video |
| The Checkmk Roadmap | Lars Michelsen & Thomas Lippert | Slides, Video |
| Tech Session: Building great dashboards with Checkmk | Marcel Arentz & Mathias Kettner | Slides, Video |
| Tech Session: E2E Monitoring – Introducing Robotmk | Simon Meggle (ELABIT) & Jens Dunkelberg (Abraxas) | Slides, Video |
Checkmk Conference #6
The sixth Checkmk Conference went digital. From April 28 to April 29, 2020, the conference took place online for the first time since 2014.
| Sessions | Presenter | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| Checkmk and tribe29 – the 2020 priorities | Checkmk Team | Slides |
| Newest developments in Checkmk | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Network flow monitoring – Integration of ntop & Checkmk (en) | Simone Mainardi (ntop) & Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| The new Windows monitoring – one year later | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Oracle application monitoring at Swisscom | Daniel Röttgermann (Swisscom) | Slides, Video |
| The Checkmk community (en) | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| The new user experience | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| One API to rule them all: the new REST-API | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Integrating Prometheus: towards a unified monitoring | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| The new Check-API | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Monitoring Micorsoft Azure – a practitioner's example | Andreas Döhler (Bechtle) | Slides, Video |
| Setting up your own Checkmk staging environment | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| A support diagnostic for Checkmk | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| The Checkmk roadmap | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
Checkmk Conference #5
From April 28 to April 30, 2019, we provided you with a look under the hood of the Checkmk development and introduced major additions to Checkmk to monitor highly dynamic environments and cloud services. Experts from the monitoring community presented best practices from their implementations.
| Sessions | Presenter | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| Newest developments in Checkmk | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Easy monitoring of highly dynamic environments | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Monitoring Docker and Kubernetes | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Storage monitoring at VW | Benjamin Tietz (Volkswagen) | Slides |
| Running Checkmk in a Docker container | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| The i-doit and Checkmk integration (de) | Benjamin Heisig (synetics) | Slides, Video |
| The completely redesigned Windows agent | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| New Business Intelligence visualizations - finally... | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Integrating Grafana and Checkmk | Douglas Mauro (Truepath Technologies) | Slides, Video |
| Automate your monitoring! | Philipp Lemke (Healthcare) & Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Monitoring & analytics: capacity management | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Monitoring cloud services | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| How to set up your Checkmk securely | Ralf Spenneberg (OpenSource Security) | Slides, Video |
| The new Check-API - simplifying check development | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| The Checkmk roadmap | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
Checkmk Conference #4
The fourth Checkmk conference took place from May 2 to May 4, 2018. Have a look at the video below to get an impression of our conferences' atmosphere.
| Sessions | Presenter | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 1 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Hardening Checkmk with SELinux | Ralf Spenneberg (OpenSource Security) | Slides, Video |
| How to make Checkmk highly available | Marius Pana (spearhead) | Slides, Video |
| Being a smart ass with Checkmk - tales of daily Checkmk usage | Alexander Wilms (Bechtle) | Slides, Video |
| Global deployment of Checkmk at Faurecia | Michael Frank (Faurecia) | Video |
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 2 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk cloud and container monitoring - presence and future | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Easy-to-understand Checkmk-history using Elasticsearch | Fabian Binder & Rika Denia (comNET) | Slides, Video |
| Distributed monitoring - which method is ideal for which project? | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Analysing netflow with ntopng | Simone Mainardi (ntop) | Slides, Video |
| SSL and certificates - finally understand & use them in Checkmk | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk roadmap | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
Checkmk Conference #3
Having had a one-year break, the third Checkmk Conference took place from May 1 to May 3, 2017.
| Sessions | Presenter | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 1 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Using Checkmk BI for modelling IT services | Fabian Binder (comNET GmbH) | Slides, Video |
| The new automatic agent updates | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 2 | Checkmk Team | Script WEB-API, Slides, Video |
| Checkmk & security - use Checkmk securely, understand concepts | Ralf Spenneberg (OpenSource Security) | Slides, Video |
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 3 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 4 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| The new Checkmk Managed Services Edition | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| End-to-End monitoring with Checkmk | Hardy Düttmann (ITeratio GmbH) | Slides, Video |
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 5 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk roadmap | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
Checkmk Conference #2
After the first Checkmk Conference's huge success and acceptance, the second followed right away and took place from October 18 to October 20, 2015.
| Sessions | Presenter | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 1 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Demystifying SNMP | Douglas Mauro (Truepath Technologies) | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk and CMDB, what's up? | Robert Sander (Heinlein Support GmbH) | Slides, Video |
| Combination of Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana | Bernd Erk (Netways GmbH | Slides, Video |
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 2 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Migration from Solarwinds to Checkmk | Gunanand Nagarkar & Ravi Bhure (Opex Software) | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk's new metric system | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 3 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| LTW Intralogistics & Checkmk - monitoring of industrial plants | Markus Mühlebach (LTW Intralogistics GmbH) | Slides, Video |
| Automation with Ansible | Marius Pana (Spearhead Systems) | Slides, Video |
| Data replication and high availability with multi-node-clusters | Robert Altnöder (LIN:BIT) | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk treasures | Tim Despiegelaere (SYNERGICS CVBA) | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk roadmap | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
Checkmk Conference #1
The very first Checkmk Conference in 2014 – back then "Check_MK Conference" – gathered around 100 participants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland in Munich. The conference took place from October 19 to October 21, 2014.
| Sessions | Presenter | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 1 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Newest developments in Checkmk - part 2 | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| RRD tool for advanced usage | Tobias Oetiker (OETIKER+PARTNER) | Slides, Video |
| The Checkmk Micro Core | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Configuration management with Puppet: intro/best practices | Sascha Brechmann | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk virt1/rail1/rack1 - the new Checkmk Appliance | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Event-based monitoring with Checkmk at Munich Airport | Hubert Bösl (Munich Airport) | Slides, Video |
| High-end alerting - the new rule-based notifications | Robert Sander (Heinlein Support GmbH) | Slides, Video |
| The i-doit CMDB in combination with Checkmk - from monitoring to IT service | Daniel Kirsten (synetics GmbH) | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk's new ORACLE Monitoring | Thorsten Bruhns (OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH) | Slides, Video |
| Checkmk inventory - hardware and software inventory with Checkmk | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |
| Distributed monitoring - pros and cons of different architectures | Checkmk Team | Slides, Video |