A monitoring method and apparatus

The present invention provides a monitoring method and apparatus. Wherein the monitoring method comprising: A, monitoring platform for each monitored device configuration data to be monitored; B, when the monitoring platform to monitor a plurality of monitored devices, each of the plurality of reading devices are monitored configuration data, by the monitoring platform and each of the plurality of tunnels between the monitored device is transmitted parallel data information that is configured to monitor a plurality of devices. According to the present invention, in order to avoid the use of round robin mechanism to achieve end centralized monitoring center.