Config Management Camp 2024 Ghent

Automating your Monitoring Environment with the Checkmk Ansible Collection
2024-02-05, 14:50–15:40, B.3.039

Discover the power of Checkmk and Ansible for comprehensive monitoring solutions!


By utilizing the Checkmk Ansible Collection, administrators can effortlessly automate their monitoring environment, leveraging the inherent efficiency of Ansible.


This Ansible collection is the result of collaborative efforts from a group of community members who shared a common goal—to seamlessly integrate Checkmk with Ansible. We are proud to say that this project has now evolved into a valuable tool for streamlined monitoring processes.


In this session, we will take you through the developmental journey of this integration. We will demonstrate how you can effectively harness the capabilities of Ansible to enhance monitoring convenience and optimize your overall workflow.


By the end of this session, you'll be ready to automate your monitoring with Checkmk Ansible Collection.


Join us to:
* Discover the power of Checkmk and Ansible for your monitoring needs.
* Master the setup of a Checkmk server, agent deployment, and site configuration.
* Learn how the Checkmk Ansible Collection was built through community collaboration.
* Uncover the challenges we overcame during development.

After studying IT at the Berufsakademie Stuttgart, I was working with different monitoring tools for different companies since 1998.


In 2013, I fell in love with the open source monitoring solution Checkmk and kept working with it ever since. In 2021, I had the chance to join the company itself as a consultant.


Together with 2 colleagues and a lot of help from the open source community, I created the Checkmk Ansible collection.