Techniques described herein may be used to provide an operator of a network with a current configuration of computing nodes of a distributed system, and processes (e.g., virtual machines) hosted by the computing nodes, and/or a history of changes to the configuration of the computing nodes and/or hosted processes. An operator may cause a computing node, and the processes hosted by the computing node, to be configured based on configuration data stored by a configuration database. Another operator may change the configuration of the computing node, and/or the hosted processes, by changing the configuration data stored by the configuration database. The computing node may create a record of the change. Yet another operator may request that the current configuration of the computing node and the hosted processes (and/or a history of configuration changes to the configuration data) be provided, and the computing node may provide requested information.