# Monitoring

> Monitoring is the checking of IT components against defined thresholds, so that a notification or an alarm is triggered when a threshold is reached.

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Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) sets out what IT monitoring involves in its IT baseline protection guidance (IT-Grundschutz Compendium, [module OPS.1.1.1](https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Grundschutz/IT-GS-Kompendium_Einzel_PDFs_2023/04_OPS_Betrieb/OPS_1_1_1_Allgemeiner_IT_Betrieb_Edition_2023.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=4), in German). Requirement A9 recommends monitoring every IT component consistently, covering the values that matter for each one and following a monitoring plan drawn up in advance. Each component should have suitable thresholds that trigger a notification or an alarm, and IT operations should specify which reporting channels are used and what action follows a notification or an alarm.

Before any of this, the module's basic requirement A1 asks that, for every IT component in use, the operating tasks are defined and the people responsible for them identified. For a project, the practical point is to settle who gets which alert and who deals with it.

For the applications we run, we handle the monitoring ourselves and are alerted to incidents, while the hosting provider monitors its own infrastructure around the clock. When we look after online shops over the long term, monitoring goes hand in hand with security patches and maintenance, particularly once the shop software no longer receives official security updates. On our SEO page the word has a different meaning: there it refers to tracking search rankings, a matter of measurement rather than technical operations.

## See also

- [EOL](https://t10.de/en/glossary/eol): EOL (end of life) is the point at which a vendor or project stops supporting a software version, so that users may be exposed to unpatched security vulnerabilities.
- [Shopware](https://t10.de/en/glossary/shopware): Shopware is e-commerce software from shopware AG in Schöppingen, Germany; the vendor says its current product, Shopware 6, is a complete redevelopment of Shopware 5.
- [Business application](https://t10.de/en/glossary/business-application): In general terms, a business application is software used to perform or support business functions.

## Where the term appears

- [Pharma IT services: Non-GxP software](https://t10.de/en/pharma)
- [Online shops: Shopify and Shopware 5](https://t10.de/en/online-shops)
- [Bespoke software & business apps with Symfony](https://t10.de/en/symfony-development)
- [Non-GxP in pharma: what we build, what we leave out and where our systems stop](https://t10.de/en/blog/non-gxp-pharma-logistics)
- [Stock alerts in pharma logistics: the customer asked for a web shop. We thought it through.](https://t10.de/en/blog/stock-alerts-pharma)
- [Out of the inbox: a knowledge platform for a pharma logistics provider](https://t10.de/en/blog/knowledge-platform-pharma)
- [AI product copy and SEO content with RAG](https://t10.de/en/seo)

## Sources

1. [IT-Grundschutz-Kompendium, Baustein OPS.1.1.1 Allgemeiner IT-Betrieb (Edition 2023)](https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Grundschutz/IT-GS-Kompendium_Einzel_PDFs_2023/04_OPS_Betrieb/OPS_1_1_1_Allgemeiner_IT_Betrieb_Edition_2023.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=4), Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), accessed 2026-11-07