# Scalpels Scalpels is distributed tracing or digging system for OpenStack. ## Background OpenStack is made of multiple Python-based projects. Each project has similiar but different architecture. Scalpels gathers useful scripts or 3rd tools to help operator find what happen in your cloud. ## Contribute This project is prototype now and under development. If you have interests in this work, please contact @kun_huang, at #openstack-chinese channel. ## Ideas Each project will have scripts working: * on python calls * on sql queries * on filesystem I/O * on RPC calls if need * on necessary system calls * on common system statistics