Chef
Configuration management tool which uses a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration recipes. Supports Linux, UNIX, Windows, and AIX as first-class citizens for management.
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collectd
A daemon that collects system performance statistics periodically, and provides tons of plugins to store and analyze these values
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Errbit
An open source, self-hosted error catching tool, which can collect and manage errors from other applications. It is compatible with the Airbrake API and can be used as a drop-in replacement.
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FastForward
Flexible operating-system event and metric forwarding agent. Receives input and forwards output using plugins.
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Fig
A package management tool, similar to Ivy/APT, but language agnostic, faster and works well with both executables and libraries.
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FnordMetric
A HTML5/Javascript API for collecting and visualizing time series data
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Fog
The Ruby Cloud API library. Provides a Ruby API for interacting and managing many cloud providers, such as spinning up new instances, terminating old ones, attaching storage, etc. Currently supports more than 20 providers, including EC2, Rackspace, Brightbox, etc.
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Instrumental
Instrumental is a real-time, high-scale application and server monitoring tool with intelligent alerts, a powerful query language, and free development accounts.
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jclouds
A Java Library for controlling cloud resources, with various plugins for many popular cloud providers.
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jmxtrans
Plugs Java VM statistics via JMX to various backend monitoring tools
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Logstash
A modern tool for managing events and logs, with an ElasticSearch backend which allows a high degree of searching and filtering. It includes a shipper in remote systems, indexer in the aggregator machine, and a Web UI.
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Metrics
Captures JVM and application-level metrics for Java
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Monigusto
A collection of Chef recipes to install various monitoring tools (such as sensu, statsd, etc). Makes it a breeze to get a monitoring infrastructure up and running
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Puppet Dashboard
A web interface for Puppet. It can view and analyze Puppet reports, assign Puppet classes and parameters to nodes, view inventory data and backed-up file contents, etc.
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Puppet
Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.
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Sentry
Automate error tracking to find and fix issues before your users even experience a crash. Sentry is open-source, real-time, and loved by 100,000 developers around the world.
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Vagrant Cachier
A Vagrant plugin that helps you reduce the amount of coffee you drink while waiting for boxes to be provisioned by sharing a common package cache among similiar VM instances.
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Veewee
veewee is a great tool for building Virtual Machine images (aka base boxes). It automates most of the steps and allows you to easily create readymade images for VirtualBox/Vagrant, VMWare Fusion, KVM and Parallels. No longer need to shy away from building custom VM images!
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Zabbix
An open source, enterprise-class monitoring framework
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