Intelligent information adapter generation for service management. Managing selection of adapters from and adapter pool to use for collecting the service management information includes, based on adding a data source, selecting an adapter to use for collecting service management information from the added data source, the selecting including automatically creating and selecting a new adapter, the new adapter being created based on access information to access the added data source, a resource type of the portion of service management information collected from the added data source, and a desired performance indicator that the new adapter is to parse out from the portion of service management information that the new adapter collects.