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# Reference

This reference provides information related to maintaining an AM instance, and covers the following topics:

* [Monitoring configuration](global-monitoring.html)

* [Monitoring metrics](monitoring-metrics.html)

* [Monitoring metrics](monitoring-metrics.html)

For the global services reference, refer to [Services configuration](../reference/global-services-configuration.html).