Bpmon metrics scheduled data collection time and actual run time differs in the system

[SAPSupport]

We configured some BPMON metrics for 5 modules in our system and data is getting collected successfully, but when we checked the scheduled data collection time and actual data collection time differs in the system.

Could you please check and let me know how this can be corrected?

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[SAPSupport · Accepted solution]

Please know that if a monitoring object is configured to run at 8:30am, for example, this is the time set for the monitoring object to be enqueued for data collection within the managed system.

If the data collection for the object is set to run in background within the monitoring object configuration UI, this means that it will be enqueued within the BPM_DATA_COLLECTION* background job in the managed system scheduled to run at this time.

It is my understanding that, as there can only be one instance of the BPM_DATA_COLLECTION_1* background job running in the managed system at a given time, if the previous instance of the job is scheduled to run and starts at 8:25am and takes 8 minutes to run due to large data volumes or a large volume of objects enqueued for collection at that time, the data collection job scheduled to run at 8:30am will not start until 8:33am and the monitoring object scheduled to execute at 8:30am will not be executed until 8:33am.