Open source dashboards and tools
Ceph storage administrators can perform most cluster monitoring and management with the CLI commands provided by Ceph. Ceph also provides a rich admin API that can be used to monitor and visualize the entire Ceph cluster. There are several open source projects that make use of Ceph's REST admin API and present a GUI dashboard for a visual overview of your entire cluster. Some tools focus on monitoring; others have more expansive scopes and include orchestration and lifecycle management features as well.
Kraken
Kraken is an open source Ceph dashboard written in Python. Initial development was by Don Talton, who was later joined by David Moreau Simard. Don has over twenty years of experience with prominent companies and runs Merrymack, an IT consulting company.
The development of Kraken came about because, at the time, Ceph's Calamari tool was only available to commercial customers of Inktank. Don believed that it was desirable to have a good open source dashboard...