Monitoring
# Monitoring

Monitoring may refer to:

## Science and technology

### 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
