Abstract: in this article the legal monitoring as a special-legal guarantee of the principle of legality. <...> The author studied the legal regulation of monitoring at the federal level, the laws of the Russian Federation, the governing legal monitoring (Republic of Tatarstan, Krasnodar, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Leningrad region, the Jewish Autonomous Region, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District). <...> The article examines the practice of monitoring in the Voronezh region and suggests directions of its improvement at the regional level. <...> Исследованы правовое регулирование мониторинга на федеральном уровне, законы субъектов Российской Федерации, регулирующие правовой мониторинг (Республики Татарстан, Краснодарского края, Воронежской, Липецкой, Ленинградской областей. <...>