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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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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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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Statman
Statman makes it possible to instrument and collect statistics from your high-traffic production Erlang systems with very low overhead. The collected data points are aggregated in the VM and can be sent to services like Graphite, Munin, New Relic, etc.
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