Monitoring

Monitoring may refer to:

Biology and healthcare

 * Monitoring (medicine), the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time
 * Baby monitoring
 * Biomonitoring, of toxic chemical compounds, elements, or their metabolites, in biological substances
 * Fetal monitoring in childbirth
 * Heart rate monitoring
 * Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring
 * Monitoring in clinical trials, oversight and administrative efforts that monitor a participant's health during a clinical trial
 * Self-monitoring, a psychological term meaning awareness of what one knows

Computing

 * Application performance management, also called application performance monitoring, monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications
 * Event monitoring, process of collecting, analyzing, and signaling event occurrences to subscribers such as operating system processes, active database rules as well as human operators
 * Business transaction management, also called business transaction monitoring, managing information technology from a business transaction perspective
 * Network monitoring, systems that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator
 * System monitoring, a process within a distributed system for collecting and storing state data
 * User activity monitoring, the process of recording user input
 * Website monitoring, the process of testing and verifying that end-users can interact with a website or web application as expected

Environmental science

 * Environmental monitoring, processes and activities that characterise and monitor the quality of the environment
 * Participatory monitoring, monitoring of natural resources and biodiversity by local people

Other uses in science and technology

 * Condition monitoring, a process for tracking parameters in industrial equipment
 * Cure monitoring, for composite materials manufacturing
 * Deformation monitoring, measurement and tracking of the alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of stresses
 * Energy monitoring and targeting, an energy efficiency technique

Other uses

 * Election monitoring, the observation of an election by one or more independent parties
 * Futures monitoring, evaluation of events, as they occur or just afterward
 * Media monitoring service, providing clients with copies of media content, which is of specific interest
 * Monitoring and evaluation, process that helps improve performance and achieve results in project management
 * Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) Initiative