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# Maintenance

This guide covers how to perform maintenance tasks in ForgeRock Access Management such as backing up and restoring, monitoring, and others.

This guide is written for anyone that sets up and maintains Access Management services for their organizations. This guide covers tasks and configurations you might repeat throughout the life cycle of a deployment in your organization.

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#### [Back up and restore configurations](backup-restore.html)

How to back up and restore AM.

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#### [Monitor instances](monitoring-am.html)

Monitor AM through any of the included interfaces.

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#### [Tune instances](tuning-am.html)

Best practices about tuning your AM environment.

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#### [Enable debug logging](debug-logging.html)

Capture troubleshooting information.