Boxstarter

Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages. When its time to repave either bare metal or virtualized instances, locally or on a remote machine, Boxstarter can automate both trivial and highly complex installations. Compatible with all Windows versions from Windows 7/2008 R2 forward.

     

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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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Chocolatey

Chocolatey is like apt-get for Windows. It can install packages and dependencies over the command line.

     

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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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jmxtrans

Plugs Java VM statistics via JMX to various backend monitoring tools

     

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KairosDB

KairosDB is a fast distributed scalable time series database written on top of Cassandra. RESTful JSON-based query/results. Includes flot-based visualization.

     

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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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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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