Dear Checkmk Community,
It’s time again for our monthly community bulletin where we recognize our community members and share some updates relevant to the Checkmk community.
The community bulletin is, of course, open for improvement suggestions, including your ideas for topics we should add here. Feel free to reply here or send me a message.
Community Updates
In case you missed it, here are some important updates around Checkmk this month
Innovation Release
The innovation release is an early stage release of the upcoming Checkmk version. Here you can already try out the major changes coming to 2.0. We’re doing this release to ensure we involve the community in the process as early as possible. Your feedback is very crucial in delivering the biggest Checkmk release yet! Read more about the release here.
Community Call on Next Week! (11.11.2020, 18:00 CET)
The Innovation Release is here! We are a big step closer to Checkmk 2.0 and you can check it out for yourself now. There are a lot of changes happening and we want to talk to you about it. Don’t miss out on our Community Call next week, with our CEO Jan and Founder Mathias explaining to you what you should expect with the new Checkmk. More information about the Community Call here
New Checkmk Videos
Checkmk Tutorials Episode 12: Acknowledging Problems
Mathias explains how you can acknowledge problems in your infrastructure with Checkmk. Learn how to qualify states of hosts and services, keep the overview of messages in the Tactical Overview and add comments to problems. Watch it on YouTube with English subtitles
Checkmk Tutorials Episode 13: Scheduling downtimes
Mathias explains how to consider maintenance times in Checkmk. Scheduling downtimes avoids that your monitoring sends false alarms during a maintenance window. Use Checkmk to also inform affected users about the maintenance. Watch it on YouTube with English subtitles
English Checkmk Training in US Eastern Time
We now offer a Checkmk training in English that’s suitable to North American timezones. We are offering System Monitoring with Checkmk - Part 1: Basics on 16th-20th Nov 2020. The training schedule will mostly be held at 9 am - 5 pm EST. Book the training here.
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Top Forum Responders
These are the people with the most number of replies in the forum last month. They are our heroes who help our community members with their monitoring.
New Community Problem Solver
People who have 5 replies marked as solution
GitHub Contributors
Contributors whose PR got merged on the Checkmk GitHub repo last month
zionio: fixed some typos
japalie: Add Support for Hitachi VSP G370 Devices
@r.sander: [dell_compellent_folder] use df_translation, [dell_compellent_folder] uses other values for folder usage
Thank you so much for your contributions everyone! We are grateful for the time and skills you have been sharing with the community. 
Have a great month and hope to see you all in our Community Call next week!