Monitoring may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology and healthcare

Monitoring (medicine) In medicine, monitoring is the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time. It can be performed by continuously measuring certain parameters by using a medical monitor (for example, by continuously measuri ...

, 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 *

Surveillance Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as c ...