How to use the Advanced Settings
Overview
Use the Advanced Settings to customize your Monitor, and define custom Request as well as Response Settings.
- Access the Advanced Settings
- General Settings
- Request Settings
- Response Settings
- Run Check & See Result
Access the Advanced Settings
Step 1. Go to your Monitors Page: https://app.pulsetic.com/monitors and click the three dots next to the Latest Check information of the Monitor you want to update.
Step 2. Select Advanced Settings.
Step 3. Once you’re on Advanced Settings, you'll see the following: General Settings, Request Settings, and Response Settings.
General Settings
Add the URL that should be monitored, add a Name (optional), define the Notification Delay in minutes, the Maximum timeout in seconds, the Check frequency, and then click Update.
Request Settings
Step 1. Click Request Settings.
Step 2. Select an HTTP Method.
- GET: Retrieve data
- HEAD: Retrieve data without the response body
- POST: Submits an entity to a specific resource
- PUT: Replaces using the data from the request
- DELETE: Deletes the specified data
- OPTIONS: Describes the communication options
- PATCH: Applies partial modifications
Step 3. Define the Body type and data or Params.
Step 4. Define the Request Headers.
Step 5. Click Update.
Response Settings
Step 1. On the Advanced Settings tab, click Response Settings.
Step 2. Add your Response text (keyword), Response Headers, and click Update.
Run Check & See Result
To validate your settings, click Run Check & See Result on the right part of the page.
