A computing system includes a component, a hot-swap controller that is coupled to the component, and a hot-swap controller monitoring configuration subsystem that is coupled to the hot-swap controller. The hot-swap controller monitoring subsystem receives a hot-swap controller monitoring configuration for the hot-swap controller that defines at least one monitoring characteristic for monitoring the component, uses it during an initialization of the computing system to generate hot-swap controller monitoring configuration commands, and transmits the hot-swap controller monitoring configuration commands to the hot-swap controller to configure the hot-swap controller to monitor the component according to at least one monitoring characteristic defined by the hot-swap controller monitoring configuration. During a runtime of the computing system following the initialization of the computing system, the hot-swap controller monitoring subsystem retrieves hot-swap controller monitoring data generated by the hot-swap controller for the component according to at least one monitoring characteristic.