Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA)

 

What is Microsoft Monitoring Agent?

Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) is a service used to watch and report on application and system health on a Windows computer. It collects and reports a variety of data, including performance metrics, trace information and event logs.

Software developers use MMA to check the performance of new builds. Systems administrators use it to oversee application functionality and performance for enterprise systems.

How is Microsoft Monitoring Agent used?

Administrators use MMA for infrastructure monitoring through System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The agent watches and determines the health of monitored systems and sends a report to the management server. SCOM management packs can dictate the data collected, run tasks and other workflows for the agent.

MMA can also provide application performance monitoring (APM) through SCOM, letting developers and administrators monitor web applications and Windows services written with .NET framework. Similarly, MMA can operate in standalone mode and perform basic APM using IntelliTrace logs through a development platform, such as Microsoft Visual Studio.