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 ## Predefined metrics
 
-JMX Metric Insight comes with a number of predefined configurations containing curated sets of JMX metrics for popular application servers or frameworks. To enable collection for the predefined metrics, specify a list of targets as the value for the `otel.jmx.target.system` property. For example
+JMX is a popular metrics technology used throughout the JVM (see [runtime metrics](../../runtime-metrics/library/README.md)), application servers, third-party libraries, and applications.
+JMX Metric Insight comes with a number of predefined configurations containing curated sets of JMX metrics for frequently used application servers or frameworks.
+To enable collection of the predefined metrics, specify a list of targets as the value for the `otel.jmx.target.system` property. For example
 
 ```bash
 $ java -javaagent:path/to/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar \