diff --git a/tools/check_logs.py b/tools/check_logs.py
index de7e41d..7e191a0 100755
--- a/tools/check_logs.py
+++ b/tools/check_logs.py
@@ -56,39 +56,39 @@
     's-proxy'])
 
 
-def process_files(file_specs, url_specs, whitelists):
+def process_files(file_specs, url_specs, allow_lists):
     regexp = re.compile(r"^.* (ERROR|CRITICAL|TRACE) .*\[.*\-.*\]")
     logs_with_errors = []
     for (name, filename) in file_specs:
-        whitelist = whitelists.get(name, [])
+        allow_list = allow_lists.get(name, [])
         with open(filename) as content:
-            if scan_content(content, regexp, whitelist):
+            if scan_content(content, regexp, allow_list):
                 logs_with_errors.append(name)
     for (name, url) in url_specs:
-        whitelist = whitelists.get(name, [])
+        allow_list = allow_lists.get(name, [])
         req = urlreq.Request(url)
         req.add_header('Accept-Encoding', 'gzip')
         page = urlreq.urlopen(req)
         buf = six.StringIO(page.read())
         f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf)
-        if scan_content(f.read().splitlines(), regexp, whitelist):
+        if scan_content(f.read().splitlines(), regexp, allow_list):
             logs_with_errors.append(name)
     return logs_with_errors
 
 
-def scan_content(content, regexp, whitelist):
+def scan_content(content, regexp, allow_list):
     had_errors = False
     for line in content:
         if not line.startswith("Stderr:") and regexp.match(line):
-            whitelisted = False
-            for w in whitelist:
+            allowed = False
+            for w in allow_list:
                 pat = ".*%s.*%s.*" % (w['module'].replace('.', '\\.'),
                                       w['message'])
                 if re.match(pat, line):
-                    whitelisted = True
+                    allowed = True
                     break
-            if not whitelisted or dump_all_errors:
-                if not whitelisted:
+            if not allowed or dump_all_errors:
+                if not allowed:
                     had_errors = True
     return had_errors
 
@@ -105,9 +105,9 @@
         print("Must provide exactly one of -d or -u")
         return 1
     print("Checking logs...")
-    WHITELIST_FILE = os.path.join(
+    ALLOW_LIST_FILE = os.path.join(
         os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))),
-        "etc", "whitelist.yaml")
+        "etc", "allow-list.yaml")
 
     file_matcher = re.compile(r".*screen-([\w-]+)\.log")
     files = []
@@ -132,17 +132,17 @@
         if m:
             urls_to_process.append((m.group(1), u))
 
-    whitelists = {}
-    with open(WHITELIST_FILE) as stream:
+    allow_lists = {}
+    with open(ALLOW_LIST_FILE) as stream:
         loaded = yaml.safe_load(stream)
         if loaded:
             for (name, l) in six.iteritems(loaded):
                 for w in l:
                     assert 'module' in w, 'no module in %s' % name
                     assert 'message' in w, 'no message in %s' % name
-            whitelists = loaded
+            allow_lists = loaded
     logs_with_errors = process_files(files_to_process, urls_to_process,
-                                     whitelists)
+                                     allow_lists)
 
     failed = False
     if logs_with_errors:
@@ -164,14 +164,14 @@
 
 
 usage = """
-Find non-white-listed log errors in log files from a devstack-gate run.
+Find non-allow-listed log errors in log files from a devstack-gate run.
 Log files will be searched for ERROR or CRITICAL messages. If any
-error messages do not match any of the whitelist entries contained in
-etc/whitelist.yaml, those messages will be printed to the console and
+error messages do not match any of the allow-list entries contained in
+etc/allow-list.yaml, those messages will be printed to the console and
 failure will be returned. A file directory containing logs or a url to the
 log files of an OpenStack gate job can be provided.
 
-The whitelist yaml looks like:
+The allow-list yaml looks like:
 
 log-name:
     - module: "a.b.c"
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
     - module: "a.b.c"
       message: "regexp"
 
-repeated for each log file with a whitelist.
+repeated for each log file with an allow-list.
 """
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=usage)
diff --git a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
index 618c388..415ad05 100644
--- a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
+++ b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
 
 # List of projects having tempest plugin stale or unmaintained for a long time
 # (6 months or more)
-# TODO(masayukig): Some of these can be removed from BLACKLIST in the future
-# when the patches are merged.
-BLACKLIST = [
+# TODO(masayukig): Some of these can be removed from NON_ACTIVE_LIST in the
+# future when the patches are merged.
+NON_ACTIVE_LIST = [
     'x/gce-api',  # It looks gce-api doesn't support python3 yet.
     'x/glare',  # To avoid sanity-job failure
     'x/group-based-policy',  # It looks this doesn't support python3 yet.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     'x/tap-as-a-service',  # To avoid sanity-job failure
     'x/valet',  # https://review.opendev.org/#/c/638339/
     'x/kingbird',  # https://bugs.launchpad.net/kingbird/+bug/1869722
-    # vmware-nsx is blacklisted since https://review.opendev.org/#/c/736952
+    # vmware-nsx is excluded since https://review.opendev.org/#/c/736952
     'x/vmware-nsx-tempest-plugin',
 ]
 
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@
         False
 
 
-if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'blacklist':
-    for black_plugin in BLACKLIST:
-        print(black_plugin)
-    # We just need BLACKLIST when we use this `blacklist` option.
+if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'nonactivelist':
+    for non_active_plugin in NON_ACTIVE_LIST:
+        print(non_active_plugin)
+    # We just need NON_ACTIVE_LIST when we use this `nonactivelist` option.
     # So, this exits here.
     sys.exit()
 
diff --git a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.sh b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.sh
index 33675ed..4430bbf 100755
--- a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.sh
+++ b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.sh
@@ -81,17 +81,17 @@
 
 printf "\n\n"
 
-# Print BLACKLIST
-if [[ -r doc/source/data/tempest-blacklisted-plugins-registry.header ]]; then
-    cat doc/source/data/tempest-blacklisted-plugins-registry.header
+# Print NON_ACTIVE_LIST
+if [[ -r doc/source/data/tempest-non-active-plugins-registry.header ]]; then
+    cat doc/source/data/tempest-non-active-plugins-registry.header
 fi
 
-blacklist=$(python tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py blacklist)
-name_col_len=$(echo "${blacklist}" | wc -L)
+nonactivelist=$(python tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py nonactivelist)
+name_col_len=$(echo "${nonactivelist}" | wc -L)
 name_col_len=$(( name_col_len + 20 ))
 
 printf "\n\n"
-print_plugin_table "${blacklist}"
+print_plugin_table "${nonactivelist}"
 
 printf "\n\n"
 
diff --git a/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-compute-blacklist.txt b/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-compute-exclude-list.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from tools/tempest-integrated-gate-compute-blacklist.txt
rename to tools/tempest-integrated-gate-compute-exclude-list.txt
diff --git a/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-networking-blacklist.txt b/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-networking-exclude-list.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from tools/tempest-integrated-gate-networking-blacklist.txt
rename to tools/tempest-integrated-gate-networking-exclude-list.txt
diff --git a/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-object-storage-blacklist.txt b/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-object-storage-exclude-list.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from tools/tempest-integrated-gate-object-storage-blacklist.txt
rename to tools/tempest-integrated-gate-object-storage-exclude-list.txt
diff --git a/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-placement-blacklist.txt b/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-placement-exclude-list.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from tools/tempest-integrated-gate-placement-blacklist.txt
rename to tools/tempest-integrated-gate-placement-exclude-list.txt
diff --git a/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-storage-blacklist.txt b/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-storage-blacklist.txt
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..2d691f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-storage-blacklist.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+tempest-integrated-gate-storage-exclude-list.txt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-storage-blacklist.txt b/tools/tempest-integrated-gate-storage-exclude-list.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from tools/tempest-integrated-gate-storage-blacklist.txt
rename to tools/tempest-integrated-gate-storage-exclude-list.txt
diff --git a/tools/tempest-plugin-sanity.sh b/tools/tempest-plugin-sanity.sh
index c983da9..106a9c6 100644
--- a/tools/tempest-plugin-sanity.sh
+++ b/tools/tempest-plugin-sanity.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 # retrieve a list of projects having tempest plugins
 PROJECT_LIST="$(python tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py)"
 
-BLACKLIST="$(python tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py blacklist)"
+NON_ACTIVE_LIST="$(python tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py nonactivelist)"
 
 # Function to clone project using zuul-cloner or from git
 function clone_project {
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@
 failed_plugin=''
 # Perform sanity on all tempest plugin projects
 for project in $PROJECT_LIST; do
-    # Remove blacklisted tempest plugins
-    if ! [[ `echo $BLACKLIST | grep -c $project ` -gt 0 ]]; then
+    # Remove non-active tempest plugins
+    if ! [[ `echo $NON_ACTIVE_LIST | grep -c $project ` -gt 0 ]]; then
         plugin_sanity_check $project && passed_plugin+=", $project" || \
         failed_plugin+="$project, " > $SANITY_DIR/$project.txt
     fi