From November 17-19, 2026, around 250 engineers, developers, and admins meet in Nuremberg for the Open Source Monitoring Conference (OSMC). This year, OSMC turns 20. Icinga is a Gold Sponsor, and most of the people at our booth will be the developers who build Icinga.
What is OSMC?
OSMC is a three-day conference for people who build and run open-source monitoring. The talks come from practitioners: what they run, how they scaled it, and what broke along the way. Many attendees come back every year, so the conversations between sessions often go further than the talks.
If you’re stuck on a check, an alerting setup, or a migration, chances are someone in the room has already been there.
OSMC 2026 program: workshops and talks
- November 17: three full-day, hands-on workshops. Spots are limited.
- November 18-19: more than 35 talks across the open-source monitoring stack.
The full schedule is on osmc.de.
Workshops on November 17
Each workshop runs a full day, so there’s time to actually work with the tool instead of watching slides about it:
If you monitor Windows hosts with Icinga, the Icinga for Windows workshop is the obvious pick.
Talks worth catching at OSMC 2026
The 2026 program covers AI and LLMs in monitoring, infrastructure and security, logs, metrics and traces, and the classics: Icinga, Prometheus, and the wider CNCF and Grafana ecosystem. For the 20th edition, there’s also a look back at the history of open-source monitoring itself.
OpenTelemetry comes up across the program, and it’s part of our own work too: since v2.16, Icinga 2 exports metrics natively in the OpenTelemetry format. If you want to talk through how that fits your stack, that’s a good conversation for the booth.
Side events at OSMC 2026
Some of the best conversations at OSMC happen after the last talk. On November 17, there’s a welcome reception, a two-hour guided walk through Nuremberg’s old town, and gin and whiskey tastings. Tasting spots are raffled among attendees, so tick the box when you book.
On November 18, the “20 Years of Excellence” party marks the anniversary. It’s included in every conference ticket.
Meet the Icinga developers at our booth
At most conferences, a booth means sales. At OSMC, nearly everyone already knows Icinga, so our booth team is built around the people who make the product.
Bring the config that keeps bothering you, the feature you keep missing, or the question that never got a proper answer in a GitHub issue. We also want to hear where you think Icinga should go next. And yes, there’s swag.
OSMC 2026 tickets
OSMC 2026 runs November 17-19, 2026, in Nuremberg, Germany. The last tickets are available at osmc.de/tickets.
If you’ve been before, you know what the evening of the 18th is like. If you haven’t, the 20th year is a good one to start. See you there!
