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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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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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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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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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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