Monitoring

Science and technology

Biology and healthcare

• Monitoring, 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
• 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
• Surveillance, or monitoring, observation of the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups
• Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System Initiative