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Chapter 1. Introduction > What Is Monitoring?
1.1. What Is Monitoring?
When we talk about monitoring, we often define it as "periodic sampling of system, device, application, environmental, or network status information, recorded and/or dispatched for analysis and/or correction." Or, more succinctly, "information about systems and networks that is collected, analyzed, and acted upon."[]
[] Which also includes inaction: a decision not to act is still a decision.
System, network, and environmental monitoring is an important part of system and network administration because it:
