Monitoring System

A Monitoring System is an observability system that captures, processes, analyzes, and presents data about the state, behavior, and performance of target entities to support decision-making, issue detection, and performance optimization.

• AKA: Observation System, Tracking System, Surveillance Platform, Status Monitoring Solution.
• Context:
  • It can typically collect monitoring data from monitoring targets through monitoring sensors, monitoring agents, or monitoring data sources.
  • It can typically process monitoring data to identify monitoring patterns, monitoring anomalies, and monitoring trends.
  • It can typically generate monitoring alerts when monitoring thresholds are breached or monitoring conditions are met.
  • It can typically present monitoring information through monitoring dashboards, monitoring reports, and monitoring visualizations.
  • It can typically maintain monitoring history for retrospective analysis and monitoring trend identification.
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  • It can often employ monitoring schedules to determine monitoring frequency and monitoring timing.
  • It can often calculate monitoring metrics based on raw monitoring data to measure target performance.
  • It can often integrate with monitoring notification systems to deliver monitoring alerts via communication channels.
  • It can often implement monitoring access control to restrict monitoring data visibility based on user role.
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  • It can range from being a Simple Monitoring System to being a Complex Monitoring System, depending on its monitoring capability scope and monitoring component count.
  • It can range from being a Passive Monitoring System to being an Active Monitoring System, depending on its monitoring intervention capability.
  • It can range from being a Specialized Monitoring System to being a Comprehensive Monitoring System, depending on its monitoring domain coverage.
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  • It can include monitoring hardware components and monitoring software components working together as an integrated monitoring solution.
  • It can follow monitoring protocols and monitoring standards to ensure monitoring consistency and monitoring interoperability.
  • It can enable monitoring configuration to adjust monitoring parameters, monitoring thresholds, and monitoring rules.
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• Examples:
  • Monitoring System Domains, such as:
    • IT Infrastructure Monitoring Systems, such as:
      • Network Monitoring System for tracking network performance, network availability, and network traffic.
      • Server Monitoring System for monitoring server health, server resource utilization, and server performance.
      • Application Monitoring System for observing application performance, application errors, and application availability.
    • Environmental Monitoring Systems, such as:
      • Weather Monitoring System for tracking atmospheric conditions and weather patterns.
      • Air Quality Monitoring System for measuring air pollutant levels and air quality index.
      • Water Quality Monitoring System for assessing water contaminants and water properties.
    • Business Process Monitoring Systems, such as:
      • Production Monitoring System for tracking manufacturing processes and production output.
      • Sales Monitoring System for analyzing sales performance, sales trends, and sales targets.
      • Supply Chain Monitoring System for observing inventory levels, shipment status, and supplier performance.
    • Health Monitoring Systems, such as:
      • Patient Monitoring System for tracking vital signs, medication adherence, and symptom progression.
      • Epidemic Monitoring System for detecting disease outbreaks and public health threats.
      • Fitness Monitoring System for tracking physical activity, exercise patterns, and health metrics.
    • Security Monitoring Systems, such as:
      • Physical Security Monitoring System for observing physical spaces and access points.
      • Cybersecurity Monitoring System for detecting security threats and unauthorized access.
      • Fraud Monitoring System for identifying suspicious transactions and fraudulent activity.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Control System, which actively manages and adjusts process parameters rather than primarily observing and reporting system state.
  • Analytics Platform, which focuses on complex data analysis of historical data sets rather than continuous real-time monitoring.
  • Reporting System, which generates periodic reports without continuous monitoring capabilities or real-time alerts.
  • Diagnostic System, which analyzes problem causes after issue detection rather than providing ongoing state observation.
• See: Monitoring Platform, Alerting System, Data Collection System, Surveillance System, Observability Framework, Performance Management System.

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