The Zenoss in the Clouds ZenPack Contest has ended and the winners have been selected. The breadth and depth of entries was outstanding, here is the list of finalists. After consulting with our judges, these are the winners:
Grand Prize Winner
- libvirt Virtualization - David Nicklay - The libvirt Virtualization ZenPack was selected as the Grand Prize for greatly expanding the number of virtualized technologies monitored by Zenoss. The ZenPack has been tested with KVM, QEMU and VMware and should work with Xen, OpenVZ, Virtual Box, Open Nebula and other virtualization technologies. By utilizing the common interface libvirt provides to virtualization technologies, there is now a baseline for a wide variety of virtualization technologies for all Zenoss users. Development and testing are ongoing and the ZenPack will continue to improve.
Runners-Up
- AMQP Event Monitor - David Nalley - AMQP is an open standard application layer protocol for message oriented middleware, frequently used in enterprise business and cloud environments.
- Ganglia - Jeff Schroeder - Monitors the open source Ganglia cluster/HPC monitoring system.
- Google AppEngine - Colin Hudler - Comprehensive ZenPack for collecting metrics on Google App Engine applications.
- Puppet - David Nicklay - Monitors the status of the Puppet master daemon, tracking and reporting on the status of clients and inserting new devices into Zenoss for monitoring.
For a complete list of all the Community ZenPacks that are available, please visit: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/
For Community ZenPack development and further information, please visit the Community ZenPack Repository
Thanks again to everyone who contributed their ZenPacks to the Zenoss Community!
