Monitoring may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology and healthcare

Monitoring (medicine) In medicine, monitoring is the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time. It can be performed by continuously measuring certain parameters by using a medical monitor (for example, by continuously measuri ...

, the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time *

Baby monitor A baby monitor, also known as a baby alarm, is a radio system used to remotely listen to sounds made by an infant. An audio monitor consists of a transmitter unit, equipped with a microphone, placed near to the child. It transmits the sounds by ...

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Biomonitoring In analytical chemistry, biomonitoring is the measurement of the body burden of toxic chemical compounds, elements, or their metabolites, in biological substances. Often, these measurements are done in blood and urine. Biomonitoring is performed ...

, of toxic chemical compounds, elements, or their metabolites, in biological substances * Fetal monitoring in childbirth *

Heart rate monitor A heart rate monitor (HRM) is a personal monitoring device that allows one to measure/display heart rate in real time or record the heart rate for later study. It is largely used to gather heart rate data while performing various types of phy ...

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Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) or intraoperative neuromonitoring is the use of electrophysiological methods such as electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), and evoked potentials to monitor the functional integri ...

Monitoring in clinical trials Clinical monitoring is the oversight and administrative efforts that monitor a participant's health and efficacy of the treatment during a clinical trial. Both independent and government-run grant-funding agencies, such as the National Institutes ...

, oversight and administrative efforts that monitor a participant's health during a clinical trial *

Self-monitoring Self-monitoring, a concept introduced in the 1970s by Mark Snyder (psychologist), Mark Snyder, describes the extent to which people monitor their self-presentations, expressive behavior, and nonverbal affective displays. Snyder held that human bei ...

, a psychological term meaning awareness of what one knows

Computing

Application performance management In the fields of information technology and systems management, application performance management (APM) is the monitoring and management of the performance and availability of software applications. APM strives to detect and diagnose complex appli ...

, also called application performance monitoring, monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications *

Event monitoring {{more citations, date=August 2017 In computer science, event monitoring is the process of collecting, analyzing, and signaling event occurrences to subscribers such as operating system processes, active database rules as well as human operators. T ...

, 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 Business transaction management (BTM), also known as business transaction monitoring, application transaction profiling or user defined transaction profiling, is the practice of managing information technology (IT) from a business transaction per ...

, also called business transaction monitoring, managing information technology from a business transaction perspective *

Network monitoring Network monitoring is the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages or other trouble. Network monitorin ...

, systems that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator *

System monitoring A system monitor is a hardware or software component used to monitor system resources and performance in a computer system. Among the management issues regarding use of system monitoring tools are resource usage and privacy. Overview Software ...

, a process within a distributed system for collecting and storing state data *

User activity monitoring In the field of information security, user activity monitoring (UAM) is the monitoring and recording of user actions. UAM captures user actions, including the use of applications, windows opened, system commands executed, checkboxes clicked, text e ...

, the process of recording user input *

Website monitoring Website monitoring is the process of testing and verifying that end-users can interact with a website or web application as expected. Website monitoring are often used by businesses to ensure website uptime, performance, and functionality is as exp ...

, the process of testing and verifying that end-users can interact with a website or web application as expected

Environmental science

Environmental monitoring Environmental monitoring describes the processes and activities that need to take place to characterize and monitor the quality of the environment. Environmental monitoring is used in the preparation of environmental impact assessments, as well a ...

, processes and activities that characterise and monitor the quality of the environment *

Participatory monitoring Participatory monitoring (also known as collaborative monitoring, community-based monitoring, locally based monitoring, or volunteer monitoring) is the regular collection of measurements or other kinds of data (monitoring), usually of natural reso ...

, monitoring of natural resources and biodiversity by local people

Other uses in science and technology

Condition monitoring Condition monitoring (colloquially, CM) is the process of monitoring a parameter of condition in machinery (vibration, temperature etc.), in order to identify a significant change which is indicative of a developing fault. It is a major component o ...

, a process for tracking parameters in industrial equipment *

Cure monitoring Curing is a chemical process employed in polymer chemistry and process engineering that produces the toughening or hardening of a polymer material by cross-linking of polymer chains. Even if it is strongly associated with the production of thermo ...

, for composite materials manufacturing *

Deformation monitoring Deformation monitoring (also referred to as deformation survey) is the systematic measurement and tracking of the alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of stresses induced by applied loads. Deformation monitoring is a major ...

, measurement and tracking of the alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of stresses *

Energy monitoring and targeting Energy monitoring and targeting (M&T) is an energy efficiency technique based on the standard management axiom stating that “you cannot manage what you cannot measure”. M&T techniques provide energy managers with feedback on operating practic ...

, an energy efficiency technique

Other uses

Election monitoring Election monitoring involves the observation of an election by one or more independent parties, typically from another country or from a non-governmental organization (NGO). The monitoring parties aim primarily to assess the conduct of an electi ...

, 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 A media monitoring service, a press clipping service or a clipping service as known in earlier times, provides clients with copies of media content, which is of specific interest to them and subject to changing demand; what they provide may include ...

, 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 Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as c ...

, or monitoring, observation of the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups *

Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System The Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) Initiative, brainchild of environment policy researcher Remi Chandran, is an environmental governance project developed for assisting in monitoring the effectiveness of enforcement and complian ...