# Next supervisor steps

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/next-supervisor-steps/6060>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** development\
**Created:** [March 26, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/next-supervisor-steps/6060 "2020-03-26T08:42:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/next-supervisor-steps/6060/1 "2020-03-26T08:42:51Z")

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Zeek 3.1 introduced a first, experimental version of the new  
supervisor framework that we expect to eventually replace ZeekControl  
as the primary mechanism to run Zeek clusters, both single- and  
multi-system. See the earlier blog posting for more context:  
[https://blog.zeek.org/2019/03/beyond-brocontrol-new-process.html](https://blog.zeek.org/2019/03/beyond-brocontrol-new-process.html).  
The Zeek docs summarize what's now available in 3.1:  
[https://docs.zeek.org/en/current/frameworks/supervisor.html](https://docs.zeek.org/en/current/frameworks/supervisor.html). (Thanks,  
to Jon for all that great work!)

I'd like to start planing out the next steps here, and hope that we  
can start deprecating (\*not\* remove) ZeekControl with Zeek 4.0 late  
this year. To that end, I drafted a supervisor roadmap for the next  
couple of Zeek versions, with a proposal on which parts of  
ZeekControl's functionality to port over into the new supervisor  
world, and when:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oNYqHMU1b6FEfST8F86bdpv9Bpl6M58qq4AZULCIYlU/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oNYqHMU1b6FEfST8F86bdpv9Bpl6M58qq4AZULCIYlU/edit?usp=sharing)

I'd be interested in thoughts on that, both in terms of timeline and  
generally any questions or concerns you might have. Best places for  
feedback are this mailing list and the "Supervisor Project" ticket  
([https://github.com/zeek/zeek/issues/582](https://github.com/zeek/zeek/issues/582)).

Robin

(I'll keep this on zeek-dev for now; will post more broadly as well  
once the timeline stabilizes).

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/next-supervisor-steps/6060/2 "2022-05-06T15:47:09Z")

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