• to observe a situation for any changes which may occur over time, using a monitor or measuring device
  Measuring instrument
  In the physical sciences, quality assurance, and engineering, measurement is the activity of obtaining and comparing physical quantities of real-world objects and events. Established standard objects and events are used as units, and the process of measurement gives a number relating the item...
  
  of some sort:
  • Application Performance Monitoring
    Application Performance Management
    Application performance management, or APM, refers to the discipline within systems management that focuses on monitoring and managing the performance and service availability of software applications....
    
    
  • Monitoring (medicine)
    Monitoring (medicine)
    In medicine, monitoring is the evaluation of a disease or condition over time.It can be performed by continuously measuring certain parameters , and/or by repeatedly performing medical tests .Transmitting data from a monitor to a distant...
    
    
  • Baby monitor
    Baby monitor
    A baby monitor, also known as a baby alarm, is a radio system used to remotely listen to sounds made by an infant. The transmitter unit, equipped with a microphone, is placed near to the child. It transmits the sounds the baby makes by radio waves to a receiver unit with a speaker carried by, or...
    
    , medical monitor
    Medical monitor
    A medical monitor or physiological monitor or display, is an electronic medical device used in medical monitoring that displays the monitored data, and may or may not have the ability to transmit the data on a monitoring network...
    
    , Heart rate monitor
    Heart rate monitor
    A heart rate monitor is a personal monitoring device which allows a subject to measure his or her heart rate in real time or record his or her heart rate for later study...
    
    
  • Biomonitoring
    Biomonitoring
    Aquatic biomonitoring is the science of inferring the ecological condition of rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands by examining the organisms that live there...
    
    
  • Business Transaction Monitoring
    Business Transaction Management
    Business transaction management , also known as business transaction monitoring, application transaction profiling or user defined transaction profiling, is the practice of managing information technology from a business transaction perspective...
    
    
  • Cure monitoring
    Cure monitoring
    Real-time computing of cure monitoring is an essential component for the control of the manufacturing process of composite materials. The rationale for cure monitoring relies on the various physical or chemical properties that can be used to follow the transformation of an initially liquid...
    
     for composite materials manufacturing
  • Deformation monitoring
    Deformation monitoring
    Deformation monitoring is the systematic measurement and tracking of the alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of stresses induced by applied loads...
    
    
  • Election monitoring
    Election monitoring
    Election monitoring is the observation of an election by one or more independent parties, typically from another country or a non-governmental organization , primarily to assess the conduct of an election process on the basis of national legislation and international standards. There are national...
    
    
  • Environmental monitoring
    Environmental monitoring
    Environmental monitoring describes the processes and activities that need to take place to characterise and monitor the quality of the environment...
    
    
  • Mining monitoring
  • Natural hazard monitoring
  • Network monitoring
    Network monitoring
    The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages...
    
    
  • System Monitoring
    System Monitoring
    A system monitor in systems engineering is a process within a distributed system for collecting and storing state data.- Overview :The configuration for the system monitor takes two forms:# configuration data for the monitor application itself, and...
    
    
  • Website monitoring
    Website monitoring
    Website monitoring is the process of testing and verifying that end-users can interact with a website or web application. Website monitoring is often used by businesses to ensure that their sites are live and responding....
    
    
  • Futures monitoring, Media monitoring service
    Media monitoring service
    A media monitoring service, a press clipping service or a clipping service as known in earlier times, provides clients with copies of media content, which is of specific interest to them and subject to changing demand; what they provide may include documentation, content, analysis, or editorial...
    
    
• to observe the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups (see surveillance
  Surveillance
  Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...
  
  )
• Monitoring competence
  Monitoring competence
  Monitoring competence or self-monitoring can be described as awareness of what one knows. A high level of monitoring competence means one can make accurate assessments of one's skill or knowledge, while a low level means the opposite....
  
   at a task.
• Clinical monitoring
  Clinical monitoring
  Clinical monitoring - Oversight and administrative efforts that monitor a participant's health during a clinical trial. The government and other clinical trial funding agencies require data and safety monitoring boards to oversee clinical trials...
  
   for new medical drugs

See also

• Monitor (disambiguation)
• Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System