CMKConf Munich Agenda

The Checkmk Conference #12 from June 16–18, 2026, will be split into two parts. The main conference consists of various talks on the first two days, while the third, optional day features hands-on workshops. While the program for Days 1 and 2 is still under refinement and will still be adjusted, the workshop lineup is finalized.

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Day 1, June 16

  • Knowledge Fair & Entrance
    09:30 - 11:00
  • Welcome to #CMKConf12
    11:00 - 11:10
    Jan Justus (CEO, Checkmk) & Melina Weide (Conference Lead, Checkmk)
  • The Evolution of Checkmk - Unified IT Observability for the Hybrid World
    11:10 - 11:30
    Jan Justus (CEO, Checkmk)

    Zoom out to dive deep – let’s take a look at the paradigms and priorities that shaped our product into where we are now and learn about the major improvements coming in Checkmk 2.5.

  • The New Checkmk 2.5 - Easier, Faster, and even more scalable
    11:30 - 12:30
    Martin Hirschvogel (CPO, Checkmk) & Afrida Mahbub (VP Product Marketing, Checkmk)

    TBA

  • Knowledge Fair & Lunch Break
    12:30 - 14:00
  • The Missing Link: Bridging the Gap Between Infrastructure and Applications
    14:00 - 14:30
    Sebastian Krahe (VP Product, Checkmk) & Jörg Herbel (Engineering Manager, Checkmk)

    For years, Checkmk has been the bedrock of your infrastructure monitoring. But in any IT landscape, looking at the infrastructure is only half the story. Join us for a first look at how Checkmk 2.5 transforms into a full-stack observability platform designed to monitor anything, from the oldest legacy hardware to the most modern cloud-native applications and microservices. 

  • Full- stack visibilty in practice: Customer Fireside
    14:30 - 14:50
    Jonas Dieterle (Senior Product Marketing Manager, Checkmk host) & TBA

    TBA

  • Engineering for scale: Introducing Checkmk Relay for large scale distributed deployments
    14:50 - 15:15
    Moritz Kiemer (Staff Software Engineer, Checkmk)

    Managing 100 remote locations shouldn't feel like 100 times the work. In this session, we will share how the new Checkmk Relay-- a lightweight, self-updating container, simplifies monitoring for smaller segments by moving all monitoring logic to your central site. 

  • Monitoring at the Speed of Change: Scaling Azure and Virtualization with Checkmk 2.5
    15:15 - 15:45
    Mohamed Saleh (Product Manager, Checkmk) & David Gervasoni (Team Lead Ada, Checkmk)

    Modern IT environments are growing faster than traditional monitoring tools can keep up. Checkmk 2.5 directly addresses this challenge with a ground-up redesign of our most critical infrastructure integrations. 

  • Future-Proofing Virtualization: Adaptive Proxmox Monitoring with Checkmk 2.5
    15:45 - 16:00
    Andreas Decker (IT Business Consultant, comNET)

    Managing a Proxmox environment means more than just checking if VMs are "up". It’s about cluster health, Ceph performance, and preventing resource bottlenecks before they crash your production. In this session, we’ll dive into the newly designed Proxmox workflow in Checkmk 2.5, which consolidates complex configuration rules into a single, guided experience.

  • Afternoon Coffee Break & Knowledge Fair
    16:00 - 16:30
  • From alert to answer: The Checkmk approach to practical AI
    16:45 - 17:00
    Matteo Villosio (Senior AI Software Engineer, Checkmk) & Annika Felsenträger (Product Manager, Checkmk)

    When a critical alert fires, every second spent decoding technical jargon is a second that could be used resolving. Join us to see how the new "Explain with AI" capability instantly translates complex technical signals into root cause analysis in natural language. 

  • The Fortified Watchtower: How to set up Checkmk securely
    16:45 - 17:15
    Ralf Spenneberg (CEO, OpenSource Security)

    Because monitoring platforms require deep access to your infrastructure, they must be among the most secured systems in your network. This session provides a practical roadmap for hardening Checkmk to meet modern security and compliance standards. 

  • Beyond the Tracks: How SBB Monitors the Heartbeat of the Swiss Railway with Checkmk
    17:15 - 17:45
    TBA

    Managing a national railway is about managing thousands of interconnected systems, where a single faulty component can impact the experience of over a million daily passengers. Join us for an exclusive fireside chat with Samuel, the Head of System Engineering at SBB, as we explore how the Swiss Federal Railway scales Checkmk to meet the extreme demands of rail IT operations.

  • Wrap-up - Goodbye Day 1
    17:45 - 17:55
    Jan Justus (CEO, Checkmk) & Melina Weide (Conference Lead, Checkmk)
  • Evening Event
    19:00 - 23:59
    Munich Hoch5

    To wrap up the day, join us for our Evening Event at Hoch5, located in the vibrant Werksviertel-Mitte. It’s the perfect setting to unwind with excellent food, refreshing drinks, and a great music selection. Whether you’re looking to forge new connections or dive into deep conversations in a relaxed, urban-industrial atmosphere, this is the place to be as we celebrate and network into the night.

Day 2, June 17

  • Knowledge Fair & Breakfast Bites
    09:00 - 09:30
  • Operational Efficiency: Scaling your Monitoring Workflows with Checkmk 2.5
    09:30 - 09:45
    TBA

    TBA

  • Programmable Monitoring: Automating your Monitoring Workflows with Checkmk 2.5
    09:45 - 10:00
    Torsten Engler (Director Engineering, Checkmk)

    As your infrastructure grows, managing it manually is no longer an option. This session shows you how to use the automation tools in Checkmk 2.5 to build a monitoring system that scales automatically. We will focus on how to use the new APIs to connect Checkmk to your tools and how to build your own custom monitoring checks.

  • From Alerts to Action: Self-Healing with Checkmk and Event Driven Ansible
    10:00 - 10:30
    René Koch (Consultant, DI (FH))

    In this session, you will discover how to move from manual troubleshooting to a self-healing infrastructure. We will show how to close the loop between detecting a problem and fixing it by connecting Checkmk with event-driven Ansible.

  • Knowledge Fair & Morning Coffee Break
    10:30 - 11:00
  • From Monitoring to Automation: Orchestrating Checkmk with n8n
    11:00 - 11:30
    Ricardo Ribeiro (Platform Engineering Director, Lynxmind) & Daniel Ferreira (Platform Engineering Manager, Lynxmind)

    Modern monitoring environments require more than passive alerting they demand automation, orchestration and integration with operational workflows. This talk introduces n8n-nodes-checkmk, an open-source n8n community node that provides near-complete coverage of the Checkmk REST API v1.0 (38 resources, 100+ operations) and enables Checkmk to be used as an API-first automation backend.

  • Monitor user experience: Mastering Synthetic Monitoring with Checkmk 2.5
    11:30 - 11:50
    Simon Meggle (Senior Product Manager, Checkmk)

    Infrastructure health is only half the story. If the "checkout" button fails, your business stops. This session brings together the three pillars of modern digital experience monitoring: proactive strategy, test automation, and scalable architecture. We will show you how to verify the critical user journeys that drive your employee experience and your revenue.

  • Guardrails at Scale: Customer Solution Talk
    11:50 - 12:15
    TBA

    TBA

  • More on Infrastructure: Further improvements in Checkmk 2.5
    12:15 - 12:30
    Martin Hirschvogel (CPO, Checkmk)

    This session covers the latest infrastructure improvements in Checkmk 2.5, focusing on how these updates help you gain better visibility into your network, databases, and logs.

  • Knowledge Fair & Lunch
    12:30 - 14:00
  • Monitoring workflows reimagined: Simple but powerful navigation in Checkmk 2.5
    14:00 - 14:30
    Tanja Heyken (Head of UX, Checkmk) & Logan Connolly (Software Engineer, Checkmk)

    Checkmk 2.5 introduces a major overhaul of the user experience designed to remove micro-frustrations and navigation lag. This session explores how we have simplified the most frequent monitoring workflows while improving the powerful navigation you rely on. 

  • Dashboards reimagined: Powerful dashboards that are easy to build and even easier to analyze
    14:30 - 15:00
    TBA

    Checkmk 2.5 makes it easier than ever to create, customize, and share insights across the organization with our improved dashboards.

  • Checkmk BI Made Easy: From Monitoring to Business Value
    15:00 - 15:30
    Sven-Erik Kujat (Senior IT-Consultant, etomer GmbH)

    How do you bridge the gap between alert noise and business outcomes? Join us for a deep dive into the Checkmk Business Intelligence (BI) solution delivered for WBM (Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte). We’ll show you how we transformed raw network metrics into a high-level operational cockpit—and how you can do the same.

  • Knowledge Fair & Afternoon Coffee Break
    15:30 - 16:00
  • High-Stakes Monitoring: How Munich Airport Secures Critical Infrastructure with Checkmk
    16:00 - 16:30
    Roland Krempl (Technical Product Owner, FMG) & Uwe Pojda (IT Operations Architect, FMG) & Martin Hirschvogel (CPO, Checkmk)

    Managing an airport's IT infrastructure is about ensuring the critical safety and stability of flight operations. Join us for a candid fireside chat on the realities of IT monitoring at one of Europe’s busiest hubs. We will discuss the tension between rapid innovation and the unwavering stability required for airport operations.

  • What's Next Part 1: Reimagining Analytics and Visualization in Checkmk 3.0
    16:30 - 17:00
    TBA

    This session focuses on the evolution of our data anlytics and visualization backbone, making massive amounts of data in your monitoring environment more accessible and actionable.

  • What's Next Part 2: Modern Infrastructure Monitoring and Observability in Checkmk 3.0
    17:15 - 18:00
    TBA

    The next frontier for Checkmk is deep observability across the entire stack. In the second half of our roadmap reveal, we’ll explore how we are building native support for deeper application insights and network traffic analysis.

  • Goodbye from #CMKConf12
    18:00 - 18:10
    Jan Justus (CEO, Checkmk) & Melina Weide (Conference Lead, Checkmk)
  • Workshop Dinner
    18:00 - 21:00

    Anyone holding a workshop ticket for the third day will be invited to a special dinner following the presentations on day 2. We’re excited to spend an additional evening with you while you’re in Munich. Join us for a relaxed evening reflecting on the conference, complemented by traditional Bavarian food and drinks provided by Paulaner am Nockherberg.

Day 3, June 18

  • Morning Program
    09:00 - 12:30

    In the morning, there are taking place half-day morning workshops and the first part of our full-day workshops. Check them out here. 

    See agenda line-up

  • Afternoon Program
    13:45 - 17:15

    In the afternoon, there are taking place half-day afternoon workshops and the second part of our full-day workshops. 

    See agenda line-up

System check in progress: agenda booting up

We’re currently working on the agenda for the Checkmk Conference #12 from June 16–18, 2026. The preliminary agenda will be available towards the end of this year.

Interested in playing a bigger role at the conference?

We’d love to see you on stage! Every year, we welcome not only the Checkmk team, but also our amazing partners and customers to share their stories with Checkmk. Have a unique use case or an inspiring Checkmk story to tell?

Submit your idea through our Call for Papers – we can’t wait to hear from you! The application deadline is February 2026.