Use the Advanced Settings
Use the Advanced Settings to customize your Monitor, and define custom Request as well as Response Settings.
How to Use the Advanced Settings
Access the Advanced Settings
Advanced Settings can be accessed in two places:
- During Initial Creation: If you are creating a new Website or Keyword monitor, the Advanced Settings can be configured directly in the Website Monitoring pop-up that appears when you click Add Monitor button.
- For Existing Monitors: To edit an existing monitor, use the following steps:
- Go to your Monitors Page: https://app.pulsetic.com/monitors.
- Tap the name or select the three dots next to the Latest Check information of the Monitor you want to update.
- Select Advanced Settings.
- 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.
- Define the optional settings such as Name, Notification Delay in Minutes, the Max Timeout in Seconds, Check Frequency, and Resend Notification Frequency.
- Turn on Enable SSL check and Enable Redirect Check as needed.
- Apply your settings by selecting Update.
Request Settings
- Select Request Settings.
- Select Request Type.
- HTTP
- TCP
- ICMP
- Select an HTTP Method.
- GET: Retrieve data
- POST: Submits an entity to a specific resource
- PUT: Replaces using the data from the request
- PATCH: Applies partial modifications
- DELETE: Deletes the specified data
- HEAD: Retrieve data without the response body
- OPTIONS: Describes the communication options
- Define the Body type and data or Params. This could be data you're sending (for POST/PUT/PATCH) or parameters you're including in the URL.
- Define any custom headers in the Request Headers.
- Select Update.
Response Settings
- On the Advanced Settings tab, click Response Settings.
- Add your Response text (keyword), Response Headers.
- Save your changes by selecting Update.
- To validate your settings, click Run Check & See Result.
