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 select 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 hit Update.
Request Settings
Step 1: Select Request Settings.
Step 2: Select Request Type.
- HTTP
- TCP
ICMP
Step 3. 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
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.
