A management apparatus acquires state information indicating a state of a monitoring target by communicating with the monitoring target through a first monitoring path at a monitoring timing for monitoring the monitoring target, and detects a use state of the first monitoring path. Upon determining, based on the use state, that a delay is expected to occur in at a next monitoring timing, the management apparatus changes the first monitoring path to a second monitoring path different from the first monitoring path, and communicates with the monitoring target through the changed second monitoring path.