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Collecting Metrics with Operations Agent

Operations Agent helps you to monitor a system by collecting metrics that indicate the health, performance, availability, and resource utilization of essential elements of the system.

When you use Operations Agent in conjunction with Operations Connector (OpsCx), you can add the capability to monitor business applications running on monitored systems.

With its embedded data collector, Operations Agent collects a rich set of system performance metrics from the monitored system to help you analyze the system health. Using minimal system resources, Operations Connector continuously collects and summarizes performance and health data across your system and stores the collected data into the metrics data store. The collected data is stored in a single Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) based data store.