Conference Archive

Review past Checkmk conferences and watch the videos of the keynotes and individual presentations of each conference.

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) SlidesVideo
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 SlidesVideo
Checkmk @ Deutsche Börse Jens Kühnel (Deutsche Börse) SlidesVideo
Setting downtimes on related hosts/services automatically Gerd Stolz & Michael Hoess (SVA) SlidesVideo
You should monitor your enterprise middleware! Pedro Monteiro (Lynxmind) SlidesVideo
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 SlidesVideo
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.

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Video

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)

Slides, Video​​​​​​​

Featured new integrations: Grafana, InfluxDB, DataDog

Marcel Arentz

Slides, Video​​​​​​​

Robotmk: The future of Synthetic Monitoring with Checkmk

Simon Meggle (ELABIT)

Slides, Video​​​​​​​

Visibility into Kubernetes with Checkmk 2.1

Martin Hirschvogel

Slides, Video​​​​​​​

Cloud-native monitoring with Checkmk

Jörg Herbel & Thomas Lippert

Slides, Video​​​​​​​

The Checkmk Roadmap

Lars Michelsen & Thomas Lippert

Slides, Video​​​​​​​

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
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.

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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 SlidesVideo
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)
SlidesVideo
Checkmk inventory - hardware and software inventory with Checkmk Checkmk Team Slides, Video
Distributed monitoring - pros and cons of different architectures Checkmk Team Slides, Video