SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2026
TWIN CITIES, MN
SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 2, 2025
TWIN CITIES, MN
SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 2, 2025
TWIN CITIES, MN
The Nagios World Conference 2026 sessions cover a wide range of topics, including best practices for IT monitoring, automation and integration with tools like Ansible, advanced configurations for distributed monitoring, security enhancements, and real-world case studies from industry experts. Attendees will gain insights into optimizing their Nagios Monitoring Solutions for efficiency, scalability, and proactive issue resolution.
Additional sessions will be added as more speakers are confirmed. Topics are subject to change and schedule of sessions will be determined in the near future.
Find sessions tailored to your role, experience level, and goals.
Aaron Cieslicki
Product Development Manager
Nagios
Nagios Development Update and Future Roadmap
A detailed discussion of recent developments in commercial product offerings and community Open Source projects, as well as future development plans.
Blair Fogeltanz
ITSM Integration Engineer
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Bringing Nagios into ITSM: Real‑World Integration with Ivanti Neurons
This session shows how to integrate Nagios XI with Ivanti Neurons to convert monitoring alerts into ITSM-driven workflows. A live demonstration will create an alert in Nagios, show automated alert creation and assignment in Ivanti, and illustrate how maintenance windows are synchronized to prevent alert storms. Attendees will leave with concrete configuration examples (Nagios notification commands and Ivanti workflows).
Charlie Hird
IT Director
Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd.
Nagios Monitoring and the IBM i
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. The session follows our progression from a basic plugin to a full monitoring stack that includes coverage of other IBM Power systems like VIOS and HMC—offering practical lessons for modernizing monitoring on legacy platforms.
Dave Williams
SysAdmin
Nagios Community Member
Nagios on Small Board Computers
Explore running Nagios Core & CSP on Intel-based small board computers—back to USB stick or credit card-size hardware—in pursuit of the dream of every technical professional: a working Nagios system in their pocket, ready to use anywhere and anytime.
David Hughes
Development Manager for Global Data and Network Operations
Vaisala
Deterministic Machine Learning & Stochastic Generative Systems to Close Service Loops
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…
Dorance Martinez
Platform Engineer
DMCi.co
Automating Nagios Monitoring with Ansible
This presentation explains how Ansible, a powerful automation tool, 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.
Eric Loyd
COO
EverWatch Global
InfluxDB, Grafana, and Nagios XI: Using Them to Run an Astronomical Observatory
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.
Summoning the Single Pane: A Live Nagios Fusion Ritual (with giveaways!)
Step into a live monitoring conjuring where a handful of humble Raspberry Pis are transformed into a unified, all-seeing observatory using Nagios Fusion. We will install, configure, and weave multiple Nagios instances together in real time, watching scattered alerts collapse into a single, coherent view—no smoke, just well-crafted telemetry.
Ethan Galstad
Founder and President
Nagios
Keynote Presentation
An overview of topics relating to Nagios, its community, the future of IT monitoring, and where we’re headed as an industry and an Open Source movement.
james clark
Director of Cloud Services
IT Convergence
Using AI to Create Custom Plugins
This presentation covers my environment: ~100 custom plugins that have either been improved using AI or completely written by AI.
Janice Singh
DevOps Engineer
Overview of Nagios Core
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.
John Shorey
Lead Monitoring and Security Systems Engineer
Princeton University
Struggling to Write Custom Plugins? How AI Can Bridge the Gap
In this session, I’ll share how I use AI to bridge that skills gap and rapidly build reliable custom Nagios plugins without deep programming expertise. I’ll walk through a practical workflow: defining monitoring requirements, generating initial scripts, iteratively refining logic, validating results, and preparing a plugin for production.
Dayna Glazier
Partner Marketing Manager
Nagios
How to Make the Most of Being a Nagios Partner
Discover the Nagios Partner Portal: your central hub for accessing powerful sales and marketing tools designed to strengthen your campaigns. Learn how to leverage our comprehensive toolkit, engage with valuable content through monthly partner webinars and our YouTube channel, and utilize compelling case studies to drive growth.
Josh Manley
COO
Nagios
Business Intelligence Monitoring
Gain deeper insights into your business, end user experiences, and mission critical systems using tools like Business Process Intelligence (BPI) and Multistacked Performance Graphs!
Michael Bellerue
Technical Sales Engineer
Nagios
The Power of Knowing Stuff
As a Technical Sales Engineer at Nagios Enterprises, I’ve had the pleasure of talking to many IT professionals about a myriad of different technical hurdles that need to be overcome for monitoring purposes. For example, have you ever heard of a data diode? Until a couple of years ago, I hadn’t. But I know how stuff works, so I was successfully able to understand the monitoring challenges faced and how to overcome them with Nagios XI. Come hear about some strange scenarios I’ve run into over the years and how we were able to brainstorm around them.
Michael Medin
Developer
NSClient++ Project
Monitoring Windows
A hands-on presentation showing how to actually monitor Windows and common services such as OS, file shares, SQL Server, custom (in-house) applications, etc.
Managing the NSClient Agent the Easy Way
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 based on what is installed on the machines and how to install and manage scripts across multiple machines.
Mostafa Gouda
Group Technology Services Senior Manager
Cleopatra Hospitals Group
CHG Cybersecurity
Healthcare organizations operate under extreme pressure: always-on clinical systems, sensitive patient data, strict compliance requirements, and highly distributed infrastructures. In this session, 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.
Sam Napier
Nagios XI SME
Nagios Community Member
Building A Containerized Nagios XI Development Environment with Ubuntu
Presentation will cover how to containerize Nagios XI as a small footprint System Image that has many advantages to the Nagios XI developer. With some low-cost hardware you can build a fairly robust testing environment for your monitoring environment.
Shamas Demoret
Technical Content Manager
Nagios
Overview of Nagios Solutions
Covering each Nagios Monitoring Solution in summary, and the ways they work together to provide comprehensive infrastructure insight.
Ramiro Ferrão
Senior IT Analyst
NE BRASIL
Stalking Notify Feature Implementation
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 and/or service—”stalking_notify” and “stalking_options” enabled and already in a PROBLEM state—will have its (HOST/SERVICE) OUTPUT changed at the next cycle of checks.
Robin Porter, Jay Patel, and Charlie Contrelli
A24
A24 – A Nagios Partner Evolution Story
Since 2012, A24 has evolved with the changing market, from initially providing licenses to becoming a global distributor with extensive services capabilities. In this session, we’ll explore how the demands for monitoring and observability have changed over the years, highlighting the opportunities for partners to help their customers today. We’ll also discuss the services advantage that delivers an edge in an increasingly competitive market.
Dayna Glazier
Partner Marketing Manager
Nagios
How to Make the Most of Being a Nagios Partner
Discover the Nagios Partner Portal: your central hub for accessing powerful sales and marketing tools designed to strengthen your campaigns. Learn how to leverage our comprehensive toolkit, engage with valuable content through monthly partner webinars and our YouTube channel, and utilize compelling case studies to drive growth.
Sunil Kathait
Platform Engineer
Ellucian
Transforming Nagios with AI: Building an LLM-Powered Monitoring Assistant and Predictive Anomaly Detection Engine
We at the Ellucian monitoring team are drowning in alerts, logs, and complex distributed systems, which is making it harder than ever to identify root causes quickly. 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.
Vivian Park
Sales Representative
NE BRASIL
Creative Selling: Crafting Tailored Solutions Across Multiple Sectors with Nagios XI
This presentation will explore the art of creative selling by showing how Nagios can be used to craft tailored solutions across IT departments and industries. Instead of seeking new platforms, leveraging deep knowledge of Nagios allows businesses to innovate and address modern challenges.
Through a real-world example of how NE Brasil transformed Nagios into a SOAR system, I will highlight how customizing existing tools can add value and drive business success, including how we addressed AWS shared account monitoring using distributed monitoring and configuration wizards.
The Nagios World Conference returns to Minnesota’s Twin Cities from September 14-17, 2026. Connect with IT professionals from around the world, gain hands-on experience, and explore the latest innovations in IT monitoring.
Whether you’re optimizing infrastructure, streamlining operations, or staying ahead of emerging trends, this is the place to be! Need approval to attend? Use our Justify Your Attendance template to highlight the benefits.
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