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The following is a list of external tools that we have used for supporting OpenStack infrastructures. Please note that this list is by no means complete.

Automation

• Chef: https://www.chef.io/chef/
• Cobbler: http://cobbler.github.com
• Puppet: https://puppetlabs.com

Collaboration

• MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org
• Redmine: http://www.redmine.org
• RT: http://bestpractical.com/rt

File Systems

• Gluster: http://www.gluster.org
• Ceph: http://ceph.com

Logging

• OpenStack Logging Tools: https://github.com/osops/tools-logging
• Rsyslog: http://www.rsyslog.com
• Logstash: http://www.logstash.net
  • Sample Logstash configuration: https://github.com/OpenStratus/openstack-logstash
• StackTach: event-based monitoring, usage and billing (arguably could go under Monitoring)
  • overview: http://www.sandywalsh.com/2012/10/debugging-openstack-with-stacktach-and.html
  • repository git://git.openstack.org/stackforge/stacktach
  • stackforge https://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/stacktach
  • older repository is on https://github.com/rackerlabs

Network

• OpenVPN: http://openvpn.net
• tcpdump: http://www.tcpdump.org
• WireShark: http://www.wireshark.org

Monitoring and Trending

• Cacti: http://www.cacti.net/
• Centreon: http://www.centreon.com/
• collectd: http://collectd.org
  • plugins for collecting OpenStack metrics
• Consul: https://consul.io/
• dashing-openstack: https://github.com/catalyst/dashing-openstack - a dashing-based dashboard for displaying the operational status of an OpenStack cluster, integrates with Nagios or Icinga.
• Datadog: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-now-supports-openstack-monitoring/
• Diamond: https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond
• Dynatrace: https://www.dynatrace.com/technologies/cloud-and-microservices/openstack-monitoring/
• Ganglia: http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
• Graphite: https://github.com/graphite-project
• Groundwork: http://www.gwos.com
• Icinga: https://www.icinga.org/
• InfluxDB: http://influxdb.com/
• Mist.io: https://mist.io/
• Monasca: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Monasca
• Munin: http://munin-monitoring.org
• Nagios: http://www.nagios.org
• Netcool: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/netcool-network-management
• Observium: http://www.observium.org/
• Open TSDB: http://opentsdb.net/
• pnp4nagios: https://docs.pnp4nagios.org/
• Rally: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally
• Stacktach: http://stacktach.readthedocs.org/
• Sensu: http://sensuapp.org/
• Shinken: http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/
• Surveil: http://docs.surveil.io
• Thruk: http://www.thruk.org/
• Xymon: http://xymon.sourceforge.net/
• Zabbix: http://www.zabbix.com/
• Zenoss: http://www.zenoss.com/

Repositories with monitoring scripts and checks:

• Tools to monitor OpenStack: https://github.com/osops/tools-monitoring
• Rackspace private cloud monitoring scripts: https://github.com/rcbops/rpc-maas
• Scripts to push OpenStack metrics to Graphite: https://github.com/NeCTAR-RC/nectar-metrics
• https://github.com/stackforge/monitoring-for-openstack
• https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-openstack
• https://github.com/cirrax/openstack-nagios-plugins
• http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=nagios-plugins-openstack
• https://github.com/rcbops/rpc-maas

Database

• Percona Toolkit: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit

Other tools

• Generic operations tools for OpenStack: https://github.com/osops/tools-generic
• CERN Tools repositories: https://github.com/cernops
• Rally, a load generator for OpenStack that can be used to check the operational state of a live OpenStack cloud.