To provide an apparatus monitoring device or a remote monitoring system capable of easily discriminating information on abnormality quickly requiring coping, by reducing a quantity of abnormality announcement to a remote monitoring device from the apparatus monitoring device.

This apparatus monitoring device 10 transmits an operation state of an apparatus to the remote monitoring device remotely arranged from the apparatus by monitoring the apparatus, and in this case, has an abnormality detecting part 12a detecting the abnormality caused in the apparatus, an abnormality discriminating part 12e discriminating the abnormality based on at least any one of an abnormality category and an abnormality level, and an abnormality announcing part 12d making an abnormality announcement being a report of the abnormality to the remote monitoring device based on a discriminated result of the abnormality discriminating part.