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<p>A monitoring zone is a location that Rackspace Cloud Monitoring collects
data from. Examples of monitoring zones are &#8220;US West&#8221;, &#8220;DFW1&#8221; or &#8220;ORD1&#8221;.
It is an abstraction for a general location from which data is
collected.</p>
<p>An &#8220;endpoint,&#8221; also known as a &#8220;collector,&#8221; collects data from the
monitoring zone. The endpoint is mapped directly to an individual
machine or a virtual machine. A monitor