# Monitoring

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**Monitoring** may refer to:

## Science and technology

### Biology and healthcare

- [Monitoring (medicine)](/source/Monitoring_(medicine)), the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time
- [Baby monitoring](/source/Baby_monitor)
- [Biomonitoring](/source/Biomonitoring), of toxic chemical compounds, elements, or their metabolites, in biological substances
- [Fetal monitoring](/source/Childbirth#Fetal_monitoring) in childbirth
- [Heart rate monitoring](/source/Heart_rate_monitor)
- [Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring](/source/Intraoperative_neurophysiological_monitoring)
- [Monitoring in clinical trials](/source/Monitoring_in_clinical_trials), oversight and administrative efforts that monitor a participant's health during a clinical trial
- [Self-monitoring](/source/Self-monitoring), a psychological term meaning awareness of what one knows

### Computing

- [Application performance management](/source/Application_performance_management), also called application performance monitoring, monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications
- [Event monitoring](/source/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](/source/Business_transaction_management), also called business transaction monitoring, managing information technology from a business transaction perspective
- [Network monitoring](/source/Network_monitoring), systems that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator
- [System monitoring](/source/System_monitoring), a process within a distributed system for collecting and storing state data
- [User activity monitoring](/source/User_activity_monitoring), the process of recording user input
- [Website monitoring](/source/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](/source/Environmental_monitoring), processes and activities that characterise and monitor the quality of the environment
- [Participatory monitoring](/source/Participatory_monitoring), monitoring of natural resources and biodiversity by local people

### Other uses in science and technology

- [Condition monitoring](/source/Condition_monitoring), a process for tracking parameters in industrial equipment
- [Cure monitoring](/source/Cure_monitoring), for composite materials manufacturing
- [Deformation monitoring](/source/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](/source/Energy_monitoring_and_targeting), an energy efficiency technique

## Other uses

- [Election monitoring](/source/Election_monitoring), the observation of an election by one or more independent parties
- [Futures monitoring](/source/Futures_techniques#Monitoring), evaluation of events, as they occur or just afterward
- [Media monitoring service](/source/Media_monitoring_service), providing clients with copies of media content, which is of specific interest
- [Monitoring and evaluation](/source/Monitoring_and_evaluation), process that helps improve performance and achieve results in project management
- [Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System](/source/Wildlife_Enforcement_Monitoring_System) (WEMS) Initiative

## See also

- [Monitor (disambiguation)](/source/Monitor_(disambiguation))
- [Surveillance](/source/Surveillance), the monitoring or observation of the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups

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