1. A recording medium readable by an information processing apparatus, the recording medium having recorded thereon a monitoring program for monitoring an operation status of a monitoring target program that runs on an information processing apparatus having a processor and a memory, the monitoring program being a program for causing the information processing apparatus to execute the steps of: obtaining, at a time of installation of a program, information indicating a status where the program is executed in the information processing apparatus and becomes a monitoring target program; monitoring, on the basis of the information obtained, whether the monitoring target program exists in a memory in which the monitoring target program has been loaded; and notifying abnormality based on monitoring result.