Monitoring

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

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

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[edit]

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 (WEMS) Initiative