2025 Nagios World Conference Sessions

Sessions Overview

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. If you’d like to be a speaker at the conference, click here to apply.

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Speaker Presentations

ETHAN GALSTAD

Founder and President, Nagios

Keynote

An overview of topics relating to Nagios, it’s community, the future of IT monitoring, and where we’re headed as an industry and an Open Source movement.

AARON CIESLICKI

Product Development Manager, Nagios

Nagios Event Handlers With Event Driven Ansible

Alerts are great but automated remediation is even better. Nagios has had Event Handlers for years. Attend this talk to learn how Red Hat Ansbile makes Nagios Event Handlers even better, and solves some common issues with connections and authorization.

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.

MICHAEL MEDIN

Senior Architect, NSClient++ Project

NSClient++: The Past, The Present and The Future of NSClient++

A status update of NSClient++ and what the future has in store for the popular Windows monitoring agent.

ERIC LOYD​

COO, EverWatch Global

Seriously Advanced Nagios XI Configuration

Session will cover advanced XI configuration topics, including: getting a “command line” version of the GUI using the Nagios API (Medium), using the Nagios API to automate federation from a central Nagios XI server to Nagios Core “workers” (Advanced), and self-aware Nagios XI services with parameters defined in the service_description through the magic of shell-substitution.

So You Want to Be a Nagios Reseller?

This presentation will cover what it takes to become a successful Nagios reseller. This will be sort of an introductory “how to start a business” talk, but specific to “how to start a Nagios reseller business” talk. Talk will include things like: basic business planning, understanding and defining your market, getting finances in order, sales planning and marketing, future growth, and how to integrate that with the Nagios Authorized Partner program to turn it into a great Nagios reseller business.

LUIS CONTRERAS

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Engineer, ASYNCDATA DO DOMINICANA

Unlocking The Power of Nagios Core With Go: Predicting Outages and Enhancing Monitoring Capabilities

Presentation will cover an innovative Proof of Concept (PoC) showcasing how to leverage Go to expand the functionality of Nagios Core, including how to parse and analyze the data from Nagios Core to predict outages for hosts and services. Using advanced algorithms and historical data, we’ll uncover the probability percentages of recurring events, providing actionable insights for proactive IT management.  Whether you’re an IT professional, developer, or system administrator, this session will inspire them with practical applications of Go for extending monitoring tools like Nagios Core.

JAMES CLARK

Director of Cloud and Managed Services, IT Convergence

Distributed Monitoring Using Nested Agents

Presentation will cover an alternative method to gearman for performing distributed checks using nested checks by calling NCPA from within NCPA.  Bonus topic: Using Ruby and Watir gem to scrap screen and monitor websites. Examples shown of monitoring Oracle Weblogic Adminserver.

SAM NAPIER​

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.

GAGAN KAPAHI

Optum

Adaptable Monitoring Solutions For Quickly Realizing Value and ROI

Today’s digital businesses thrive on seamless and reliable IT Infrastructure, be it private clouds, public clouds and on-prem Infrastructure powered by virtualization, containerization and server less. Organizations spent a lot of money, resources and projects to ensure IT infrastructure and related services stay available and are fault tolerant to minimize business disruptions. Most of the times what we really need is an open mind and approach to problem solving by building, creating or developing adaptable monitoring solutions, powered by engineering, open source and subscription based model.  With Nagios, digital and engineering organizations can stay ahead of the curve by embracing light weight framework that extends well beyond traditional monitoring and bring in lot of value, flexibility, open frameworks etc.

DORANCE MARTINEZ

SysAdmin / CloudEngineer, DCMi.co

Automating Nagios Monitoring With Ansible: Streamlining Infrastructure Management

This presentation aims to explore how Ansible, a powerful automation tool, can simplify and enhance the deployment and management of Nagios monitoring systems. We will delve into the synergies between Nagios and Ansible, demonstrating how automation can lead to faster provisioning, consistent configurations, and reduced operational overhead.  In this presentation, best practices for using Ansible to automate Nagios setups will be uncovered, including playbook creation, inventory management, and configuration management. By the end of this session, attendees will have a clear understanding of how to leverage these tools together to create a robust, automated monitoring solution that scales with organizational needs.

JOSH MANLEY

COO, Nagios

Topic To Be Announced

To Be Announced…

SHAMAS DEMORET

Sales Tech, Nagios

Overview of Nagios Solutions

Covering each Nagios solution in summary, and the ways they work together to provide comprehensive infrastructure insight.

JEFFREY DUNITZ

Technical Sales Engineer, Nagios

Leveraging the Nearly Infinite Flexibility of XI: Writing Simple DIY Plugins

People hear “write your own plugins” and it sounds intimidating, like you need to write a bunch of code, and you’d have to be a developer and pore over detailed specs and API charts and other esoterica. I’ll explain how to make a functional plugin very quickly, with minimal fuss. I’ll also explain how (and perhaps when) to go up a couple notches of fanciness.

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 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.

JASON MICHAELSON

Senior LAMP Stack Developer, Nagios

Managing Nagios Log Server 2024R2 Cluster Node Roles

Opensearch allows delegating specific roles in a cluster to particular nodes. As your data storage needs increase, it will become useful to have different node types for storing different data in the cluster. We will discuss the various node types, what they are used form and hardware requirements and tradeoffs of each.

DYLAN ANDERSON

Software Developer, Nagios

NEB Modules for Fun and Profit

The Nagios Event Broker (NEB) is a fundamentally useful low-level API to Nagios Core. In this talk, we will cover how NEB modules work in general, as well as discuss the specifics of NEB modules such as mod_gearman, NDO, and Livestatus. Attendees will gain new understanding in the possibilities of creating their own NEB modules, as well as modifying existing to better suit their needs.

BLAKE BAHNER

Software Developer, Nagios

Minecraft Server Auto-Moderation With Nagios

Nagios isn’t just for serious IT tasks — it can be for fun and games too! In this talk, you’ll discover how Nagios XI, Nagios Log Server and NCPA/NRPE can be leveraged alongside several mods to notice and fix your performance problems before your players do and even help you automatically handle troublesome griefers without sweeping changes that hurt your honest players!

GRIFFIN WESTERMAN

Junior Developer, Nagios

How to Write Nagios Plugins and Wizards

One of the foundations of the success of Nagios over time is the simplicity of extending monitoring through the use of custom plugins. Custom configuration wizards in the XI interface make it easy for other users to leverage your custom plugins. This talk will demystify plugins and wizards so you can confidently extend and share your monitoring.

VADIM MOSKOVIN

IT Specialist, Nagios

Overview of Hosts, Services, and Customizing Host/Service Groups

Understanding how to setup host/service groups can be critical for keeping your servers alive. This presentation will be an overview of creating Host/service groups and scheduling reports for those groups. If time permits, the presentation will demonstrate how a specific user can view only the Hosts and services tailored to their department.

HUECHEE YANG

IT Specialist, Nagios

Streamlining IT Operations with Dashboards

Dashboards are one of the fundamental things when using XI. They’re simple yet provide plenty of customizations and information on your monitored devices! In this talk I’ll be doing an overview of dashboards and some other features that you might not know that could be utilized with them.

JACKLYN COOK

Partner Sales Manager, Nagios

Nagios Partner Program (NPN); Overview, Benefits and How to Succeed

The Nagios Partner Program (NPN) program is designed to empower partners by providing sales and marketing tools as well as account support to successfully sell Nagios solutions. Whether you are an established partner or a new partner, understanding the NPN programs levels, benefits and resources available will set you up for success.

DAYNA GLAZIER

Partner Marketing Manager, Nagios

How to Make the Most of Being a Nagios Partner

Overview of the partner portal and how partners can benefit from the sales and marketing tool kit and use it in their own campaigns. Also add how they can benefit from monthly partner webinars, our YouTube channel content, case studies, and more.