Verification is an essential tool used for monitoring, communicating and further developing the quality of weather prediction systems. The questions  that need to be answered by verification are diverse and so is the variety of methods that have to be provided. In this talk, I will give an insight into how verification is used in DWD's meteorological modeling division. The presentation will cover aspects concerning the observations, methods and tools that are used, the challenges we are faced with when interpreting results and some model insights obtained from a longer-lasting, systematic and objective evaluation of forecasts.