collectd
A daemon that collects system performance statistics periodically, and provides tons of plugins to store and analyze these values
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FAI
Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) is a tool for mass unattended deployment of Linux. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, the systems are installed and completely configured.
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Monit
An open source utility for managing and monitoring processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems
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Nagios Core
Nagios Core network monitoring software is a powerful, enterprise-class host, server, application, monitoring and alerting tool
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Netdata
netdata is a system for distributed real-time performance and health monitoring. It provides unparalleled insights, in real-time, of everything happening on the system it runs (including applications such as web and database servers), using modern interactive web dashboards.
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PowerShell Desired State Configuration
DSC is a new management platform in Windows PowerShell that enables deploying and managing configuration data for software services and managing the environment in which these services run.
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Riemann
Riemann aggregates events from servers and applications, notifies exceptions, tracks latency, collects system statistics and more, all with a powerful stream processing language
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Zabbix
An open source, enterprise-class monitoring framework
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