title: Monitoring
text: # 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
  