# Monitoring | | A **System Monitor** is a hardware or software component used to monitor system resources and performance in a computer system. | | ---- | ---- | | | wikipedia:: [System monitor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_monitor) | | | **Website Monitoring** is the process of testing and verifying that end-users can interact with a website or web application as expected. Website monitoring are often used by businesses to ensure website uptime, performance, and functionality is as expected. | | | wikipedia:: [Website monitoring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website_monitoring) | | | In computer science, **Event Monitoring** is the process of collecting, analyzing, and signaling event occurrences to subscribers such as operating system processes, active database rules as well as human operators. These event occurrences may stem from arbitrary sources in both software or hardware such as operating systems, database management systems, application software and processors. Event monitoring may use a time series database. | | | wikipedia:: [Event monitoring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_monitoring) | | | **Network Monitoring** is 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 or other trouble. Network monitoring is part of network management. | | | wikipedia:: [Network monitoring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_monitoring) | aka:: Website Monitoring, System Monitor, Event Monitoring, Software Monitoring, Hardware Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring ## Infrastructure/Hardware Monitoring - [What is Infrastructure Monitoring? How it Works & Use Cases | Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/knowledge-center/infrastructure-monitoring/) - [What Is Infrastructure Monitoring? | Splunk](https://www.splunk.com/en_us/data-insider/infrastructure-monitoring.html) ## Network Monitoring - [Network monitoring - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_monitoring) - Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) - Network Device Monitoring ## APM (Application Performance Monitoring) - [Application performance management - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_performance_management) ## [[User Activity Monitoring & RUM]] ## Performance Monitoring - [Computer performance - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_performance) ## [[Continuous Profiler]] ## [[Synthetic Monitoring]] ## Security Monitoring ## Benefits - fast recovery - better [[Postmortem]]s and [[Root Cause Analysis]] - Increases [[Observability]] and visibility across teams - Automated responses and recovery ## Inbox - [[White Box & Black Monitoring]]