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Monitoring may refer to:
Science and technology
editBiology and healthcare
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
- Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) Initiative
See also
edit- Monitor (disambiguation)
- Surveillance, the monitoring or observation of the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups