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 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 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, 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 {{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, 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 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, 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 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 ...