Our Infrastructure Monitoring Event brings together IT Operations and Monitoring practitioners for a day of talks, training, and networking.
Learn why and how organizations are automating their monitoring environments with tools like Icinga, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and Terraform.
100% of your $20 ticket price will be donated to our favorite charity, Girls Who Code.

AGENDA
10:00 AM – Registration & coffee
10:30 AM – Keynote
Speaker: John Ray, Shadow-Soft
11:00 AM – 4-step methodology for automatic infrastructure monitoring
Speakers: Jeff Williams and Brandon Engelberth, Shadow-Soft
This session will cover:
- Learn why and how leading organizations use a best practice methodology for automatic infrastructure monitoring
- Shadow-Soft’s 4 step methodology for automatic infrastructure monitoring: Analyze, Build, Automate, Extend
- How to integrate monitoring tools with automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform)
11:45 AM – Challenges of monitoring big infrastructure environments
Speaker: Blerim Sheqa, CPO at Icinga
This session will cover:
- Discuss challenges that need to be tackled to truly monitor big environments
- Learn unique approaches to monitor large scale infrastructures
12:30 PM – Lunch (provided) & networking
1:00 PM – Using Terraform to automate the monitoring configuration of all your services
Speaker: Kevin Cochran, Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp
1:30 PM – How to improve workflows to automate your repetitive work
Speaker: Eric Lippmann, CTO at Icinga
This session will cover:
- You have your environments, our tasks, our routine. But are there tools that can make your life if you can integrate them into your routine?
- Learn which modules and add-ons for Icinga can help you automate repetitive work
2:00 PM – Current state of Icinga
Speaker: Bernd Erk, CEO at Icinga
This session will cover:
- What is Icinga? Why are organizations migrating to Icinga?
- Icinga product updates
- Icinga modules and plugins
2:30 PM – Build an infrastructure monitoring PoC on AWS
Speakers: Jeff Williams and Brandon Engelberth, Shadow-Soft
3:00 PM – Infrastructure monitoring panel discussion
Join Jeff Williams, Bernd Erk, Blerim Sheqa, and Kevin Cochran for a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities with infrastructure monitoring.
4:00 PM – Happy hour & networking
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- IT operations and monitoring practitioners
- System engineers and admins
- Network engineers and admins
Questions? Call 404-620-3595 or email contact@shadow-soft.com
Shadow-Soft events are designed for IT practitioners and their leadership only. This event is not for sales reps and recruiters.