Monitoring

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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

See also

  • Monitor (disambiguation)
  • Surveillance, the monitoring or observation of the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups
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