Changes per Suhail
@@ -24,17 +24,10 @@ see [Observer Config](./docs/observer-config.md).
### Monitors
-Monitors collect metrics from the host system and services. They are
-configured under the `monitors` list in the agent config. For monitors of
-applications, you can configure a discovery rule on the monitor so that a
-separate instance of the monitor is created for each discovered instance of
-applications that match that discovery rule. See [Auto
+Monitors collect metrics from the host system and services. They are configured under the `monitors` list in the agent config. For application-specific monitors, you can define discovery rules in your monitor configuration. A separate monitor instance is created for each discovered instance of applications that match a discovery rule. See [Auto
Discovery](./docs/auto-discovery.md) for more information.
-Many of the monitors rely on a third-party "super monitor",
-[collectd](https://collectd.org), under the covers to do a lot of the metric
-collection, although we also have monitors apart from Collectd. They are
-configured in the same way, however.
+Many of the monitors are built around [collectd](https://collectd.org), an open source third-party monitor, and use it to collect metrics. Some other monitors do not use collectd. However, either type is configured in the same way.
For a list of supported monitors and their configurations,
see [Monitor Config](./docs/monitor-config.md).
