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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