6:00 – 10:00 PM
Welcome Reception & Registration
Hosted by the Nagios Team
Join us at the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot, for a casual evening of networking, appetizers, and refreshments as we kick off NWC 2026!
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Agenda
Three days of hands-on training, product deep dives, and real conversations with the people who build and run Nagios. Twin Cities, MN, September 14-17.
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NWC 2026 Conference Schedule
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Pre-Conf · Mon
Sept 14
Day 01 · Tue
Sept 15
Day 02 · Wed
Sept 16
Day 03 · Thu
Sept 17
9:30 – 10:20 AM
Track 1
Keynote Presentation
Ethan Galstad — Founder & President, Nagios
Opening keynote address from Nagios founder and CEO.
10:30 – 11:20 AM
Track 1
Nagios XI: Product Overview & What's New
Shamas Demoret
Get a complete overview of XI, including key features, recent updates, and what's new in the latest release. Head over to Manley Training Center afterwards for a workshop.
Track 2
Using AI to Create Custom Plugins
James Clark
In this presentation, I will cover my environment, where I have ~100 custom plugins that have either been improved using AI or completely written by AI.
Track 3
TBD
Josh Manley
Details to be announced.
11:30 AM – 12:20 PM
Track 1
Nagios on Small Board Computers
Dave Williams
Explore running Nagios Core & CSP on Intel-based small board computers—back to USB stick or credit card-size hardware—in pursuit of a working Nagios system in your pocket, ready to use anywhere and anytime.
Track 2
Stalking Notify Feature Implementation
Ramiro Ferrão
Regarding the Stalking Notify feature proposed by Jake Omann, I have implemented a functionality where a check will notify regardless of the Notification Interval when a host/service with "stalking_notify" enabled and already in a PROBLEM state has its output changed at the next cycle.
Track 3
Workshop: Getting the Most Out of Nagios XI
Nagios Development Team
Workshop
A hands-on session focused on configuration, optimization, and real-world use cases to help you get the most out of XI.
1:40 – 2:30 PM
Track 1
Deterministic Machine Learning & Stochastic Generative Systems to Close Service Loops
David Hughes
LLMs hallucinate, making them fundamentally incompatible with vigilant monitoring. System administration, network operations, and field service roles can never be automated. But on the other hand…
Track 2
CHG Cybersecurity
Mostafa Gouda
I will share my hands-on experience leading the design, implementation, and operationalization of a multi-site Security Operations Center (SOC) for Cleopatra Hospitals Group (CHG), one of the largest healthcare groups in Egypt.
Track 3
Nagios Network Analyzer: Product Overview & What's New
Sandor Gardil
Get a complete overview of Network Analyzer, including key features, recent updates, and what's new in the latest release. Stay afterwards for a workshop.
2:40 – 3:30 PM
Track 1
Managing the NSClient Agent the Easy Way
Michael Medin
A talk showcasing how to use the new web service for installing, configuring, and managing NSClient++ installations as well as how to automate monitoring of services and manage scripts across multiple machines.
Track 2
Live Demo — Bringing Nagios into ITSM: Integration with Ivanti Neurons
Blair Fogeltanz
Live Demo
This session shows how to integrate Nagios XI with Ivanti Neurons to convert monitoring alerts into ITSM-driven workflows, with live demonstration of alert creation, assignment in Ivanti, and maintenance window synchronization.
Track 3
Workshop: Getting the Most Out of Nagios Network Analyzer
Nagios Network Analyzer Development Team
Workshop
A hands-on session focused on configuration, optimization, and real-world use cases to help you get the most out of Network Analyzer.
3:40 – 4:30 PM
Track 1
Overview of Nagios Core
Janice Singh
A how-to of Nagios Core—walking through the basics of writing configs to get Nagios Core working in your environment. For those already using Core, hopefully you'll discover new ways to customize it for your system.
Track 2
Nagios Monitoring and the IBM i
Charlie Hird
This session covers our journey of building a Nagios monitoring solution for IBM i—from zero Nagios experience to full integration with Nagios Core and XI. We highlight the unique challenges of IBM i, key design decisions such as using C for performance, and how we overcame platform-specific integration challenges.
Track 3
Summoning the Single Pane: A Live Nagios Fusion Ritual (with giveaways!)
Eric Loyd
Step into a live monitoring conjuring where a handful of humble Raspberry Pis are transformed into a unified, all-seeing observatory using Nagios Fusion.
6:30 PM
Evening Event
Hosted by the Nagios Team
Details TBD.
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9:30 – 10:20 AM
Track 1
Spotlight Session: Overview of Nagios Solutions
Shamas Demoret
Covering each Nagios solution in summary and the ways they work together to provide comprehensive infrastructure insight.
10:30 – 11:20 AM
Track 1
Nagios Log Server: Product Overview & What's New
Jason Michaelson
Get a complete overview of Log Server, including key features, recent updates, and what's new in the latest release. Head to Manley Training Center afterwards for a workshop.
Track 2
InfluxDB, Grafana, and Nagios XI: Using Them to Run an Astronomical Observatory
Eric Loyd
I'll show how Nagios XI (now with InfluxDB!) can be combined with Grafana, Home Assistant, MQTT, and a plethora of astronomy software to manage and operate a remote astronomical observatory.
Track 3
TBD
Michael Bellerue
Details to be announced.
11:30 AM – 12:20 PM
Track 1
The Role of Nagios in Agent Observability
Vivian Park
As AI agents become embedded in IT operations, organizations are recognizing that trustworthy AI depends on resilient, observable infrastructure. This session examines the emerging AI observability stack and shows how Nagios provides foundational visibility into AI workload health.
Track 2
Monitoring Proxmox with Nagios XI
Sam Napier
This session covers Proxmox monitoring with Nagios XI. I'll discuss what metrics are available in the Proxmox API, introduce Proxmoxer and the monitoring wizard, and walk through creating host and service objects in Nagios XI.
Track 3
Workshop: Getting the Most Out of Nagios Log Server
Nagios Development Team
Workshop
A hands-on session focused on configuration, optimization, and real-world use cases to help you get the most out of Log Server.
1:40 – 2:30 PM
Track 1
Transforming Nagios with AI: Building an LLM-Powered Monitoring Assistant and Predictive Anomaly Detection Engine
Sunil Kathait
In this presentation, we showcase how we integrated Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-driven anomaly detection with our enterprise Ellucian Nagios to radically improve incident detection, triage, and response.
Track 2
Nagios Development Update and Future Roadmap
Aaron Cieslicki
A detailed discussion of recent developments in commercial product offerings and community Open Source projects, as well as future development plans.
Track 3
Nagios Fusion: Product Overview & What's New
Aiden Coil
Get a complete overview of Fusion, including key features, recent updates, and what's new in the latest release. Stay afterwards for a workshop.
2:40 – 3:30 PM
Track 1
Struggling to Write Custom Plugins? How AI Can Bridge the Gap
John Shorey
In this session, I'll share how I use AI to bridge the skills gap and rapidly build reliable custom Nagios plugins without deep programming expertise. I'll walk through a practical workflow: defining requirements, generating scripts, iteratively refining logic, validating results, and preparing for production.
Track 2
Live Demo: Automating Nagios Monitoring with Ansible
Dorance Martinez
Live Demo
This presentation explains how Ansible can simplify and improve the deployment and management of Nagios monitoring systems. We will explore how Nagios and Ansible work together and show how automation helps with faster provisioning, consistent configurations, and reduced operational effort.
Track 3
Workshop: Getting the Most Out of Nagios Fusion
Nagios Fusion Development Team
Workshop
A hands-on session focused on configuration, optimization, and real-world use cases to help you get the most out of Fusion.
3:40 – 4:30 PM
Track 1
Nagios: From Reactive Alerts to Predictive Intelligence — A Live ML Demo
Luis Contreras
Live Demo
This session demonstrates how to extend Nagios Core with a machine learning sidecar that transforms it from a reactive alerting platform into a predictive intelligence engine without replacing or modifying Nagios itself.
Track 2
TBD
Stephen Sutherland and Jon Germain
Details to be announced.
Track 3
Workshop: Monitoring Windows
Michael Medin
Workshop
A hands-on presentation showing how to actually monitor Windows and common services such as OS, file shares, SQL Server, custom in-house applications, and more.
6:30 PM
Evening Event
Hosted by the Nagios Team
Details TBD.
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9:15 – 9:45 AM
Track 1
Modernizing Monitoring — Scaling Nagios through Automation, AI, and Configuration as Code
Robin Porter
Drawing on two recent large-scale professional services engagements, we will demonstrate how to transition from manual intervention to a programmatic lifecycle for your monitoring infrastructure.
Track 2
Open Discussions
TBD
Details to be announced.
Track 3
Rant at a Developer
Hands-on technical workshop session. Bring your feedback directly to the team.
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Track 1
Technical Workshop
TBD
Workshop
Details to be announced.
Track 2
Open Discussions
Development Team
Details to be announced.
Track 3
Technical Presentation
TBD
Details to be announced.
10:45 – 11:00 AM
Track 1
Conference Wrap-Up and Closing Remarks
Ethan Galstad
Join us for final reflections and key takeaways as we conclude NWC 2026.
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Sept 14–17 · Saint Paul, MN
See You In September!
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