# Managing sources in MediaConnect
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 A source in MediaConnect can be anything that provides a live video feed, such as the following:
+ An on-premises encoder
+ Another AWS Elemental MediaConnect flow
+ An AWS Elemental MediaLive output
+ A playout system (cloud-based or on-premises)

For a list of supported protocols that you can use for your source, see [Protocols](protocols.md).

From the MediaConnect console, you can view Amazon CloudWatch metrics to [monitor the source health](monitor-source-health.md) of an active flow.

**Topics**
+ [Using NDI® sources in a MediaConnect flow](sources-using-ndi.md)
+ [Adding a second source to an existing MediaConnect flow](source-adding.md)
+ [Updating the source of a MediaConnect flow](source-update.md)
+ [Source failover on a MediaConnect flow](source-failover.md)
+ [Managing tags on a MediaConnect source](sources-manage-tags.md)
+ [Removing a source from a MediaConnect flow](source-remove.md)
+ [Source ports on MediaConnect flows](source-ports.md)
+ [Determining a source's peer IP address](source-ip-address.md)