The service of Operational tools provides the essential toolkit to run a core infrastructure platform in a federated ecosystem. The Operational Tools available for members of the EGI Council are: Monitoring – provided by CNRS, GRNET, SRCE. Operations portal – provided by CCIN2P3 (Operations portal website). Configuration database – provided by STFC (GOCDB). Security tool. Information discovery. Messaging brokers. There is also a range of accounting tools offered as a separate service. The EGI Operational Tools guarantee: Reduced expenses – the entire tool kit is already available, and maintenance is shared by all members. A predictable service provisioning with high availability and reliability. Full operational integration. Increased efficiency of running operations in a federated ecosystem. Easy coordination of large collaborations. Reduced expenses – the entire tool kit is already available, and maintenance is shared by all members, increased efficiency of running operations in a federated ecosystem, easy coordination of large collaborations.