Monitoring

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To monitor or monitoring generally means to be aware of the state of a system and may refer to:

to observe a situation for any changes which may occur over time, using a monitor or measuring device of some sort:
- Application Performance Monitoring, monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications
- Monitoring (medicine), the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time
- Monitoring in clinical trials, oversight and administrative efforts that monitor a participant's health during a clinical trial
- Medical monitoring
  - Baby monitoring
  - Heart rate monitoring
  - Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring
  - Monitoring in childbirth
- Biomonitoring, of toxic chemical compounds, elements, or their metabolites, in biological substances
- Business Transaction Monitoring, managing information technology from a business transaction perspective
- 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
- Election monitoring, the observation of an election by one or more independent parties
- Energy monitoring and targeting, an energy efficiency technique
- Environmental monitoring, processes and activities that characterise and monitor the quality of the environment
- 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
- Website monitoring, the process of testing and verifying that end-users can interact with a website or web application as expected
Media monitoring service, providing clients with copies of media content, which is of specific interest
Futures monitoring, evaluation of events, as they occur or just after
Surveillance, observation of the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups
Self-monitoring, awareness of what one knows

Monitoring

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