This disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for monitoring a robot operating system. The method in an embodiment includes: obtaining process identities of to-be-monitored nodes in a group of to-be-monitored nodes; inquiring about state information of processes corresponding to the process identities; determining whether the to-be-monitored nodes are operating normally, based on the state information of the processes; and outputting information that the group of to-be-monitored nodes is abnormal, in response to a number of normally operating to-be-monitored nodes in the group of to-be-monitored nodes being below a predetermined threshold. In this embodiment, the nodes are monitored in groups to improve the efficiency of maintaining the robot operating system.