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Load Balancers

Monitors

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Update Monitor

client.loadBalancers.monitors.update(stringmonitorId, MonitorUpdateParams { account_id, allow_insecure, consecutive_down, 14 more } params, RequestOptionsoptions?): Monitor { id, allow_insecure, consecutive_down, 16 more }

PUT/accounts/{account_id}/load_balancers/monitors/{monitor_id}

Modify a configured monitor.

Security

API Token

The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. Create a token.

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY

API Email + API Key

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

Example:X-Auth-Email: user@example.com

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

Example:X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194

Accepted Permissions (at least one required)

Load Balancing: Monitors and Pools Write

ParametersExpand Collapse

monitorId: string

params: MonitorUpdateParams { account_id, allow_insecure, consecutive_down, 14 more }

account_id: string

Path param: Identifier.

maxLength32

allow_insecure?: boolean

Body param: Do not validate the certificate when monitor use HTTPS. This parameter is currently only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

consecutive_down?: number

Body param: To be marked unhealthy the monitored origin must fail this healthcheck N consecutive times.

consecutive_up?: number

Body param: To be marked healthy the monitored origin must pass this healthcheck N consecutive times.

description?: string

Body param: Object description.

expected_body?: string

Body param: A case-insensitive sub-string to look for in the response body. If this string is not found, the origin will be marked as unhealthy. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

expected_codes?: string

Body param: The expected HTTP response code or code range of the health check. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

follow_redirects?: boolean

Body param: Follow redirects if returned by the origin. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

header?: Record<string, Array<string>>

Body param: The HTTP request headers to send in the health check. It is recommended you set a Host header by default. The User-Agent header cannot be overridden. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

interval?: number

Body param: The interval between each health check. Shorter intervals may improve failover time, but will increase load on the origins as we check from multiple locations.

method?: string

Body param: The method to use for the health check. This defaults to 'GET' for HTTP/HTTPS based checks and 'connection_established' for TCP based health checks.

path_?: string

Body param: The endpoint path you want to conduct a health check against. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

port?: number | null

Body param: The port number to connect to for the health check. Required for TCP, UDP, and SMTP checks. HTTP and HTTPS checks should only define the port when using a non-standard port (HTTP: default 80, HTTPS: default 443).

probe_zone?: string

Body param: Assign this monitor to emulate the specified zone while probing. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

retries?: number

Body param: The number of retries to attempt in case of a timeout before marking the origin as unhealthy. Retries are attempted immediately.

timeout?: number

Body param: The timeout (in seconds) before marking the health check as failed.

type?: "http" | "https" | "tcp" | 3 more

Body param: The protocol to use for the health check. Currently supported protocols are 'HTTP','HTTPS', 'TCP', 'ICMP-PING', 'UDP-ICMP', and 'SMTP'.

One of the following:

"http"

"https"

"tcp"

"udp_icmp"

"icmp_ping"

"smtp"

ReturnsExpand Collapse

Monitor { id, allow_insecure, consecutive_down, 16 more }

id?: string

allow_insecure?: boolean

Do not validate the certificate when monitor use HTTPS. This parameter is currently only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

consecutive_down?: number

To be marked unhealthy the monitored origin must fail this healthcheck N consecutive times.

consecutive_up?: number

To be marked healthy the monitored origin must pass this healthcheck N consecutive times.

created_on?: string

description?: string

Object description.

expected_body?: string

A case-insensitive sub-string to look for in the response body. If this string is not found, the origin will be marked as unhealthy. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

expected_codes?: string

The expected HTTP response code or code range of the health check. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

follow_redirects?: boolean

Follow redirects if returned by the origin. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

header?: Record<string, Array<string>>

The HTTP request headers to send in the health check. It is recommended you set a Host header by default. The User-Agent header cannot be overridden. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

interval?: number

The interval between each health check. Shorter intervals may improve failover time, but will increase load on the origins as we check from multiple locations.

method?: string

The method to use for the health check. This defaults to 'GET' for HTTP/HTTPS based checks and 'connection_established' for TCP based health checks.

modified_on?: string

path?: string

The endpoint path you want to conduct a health check against. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

port?: number | null

The port number to connect to for the health check. Required for TCP, UDP, and SMTP checks. HTTP and HTTPS checks should only define the port when using a non-standard port (HTTP: default 80, HTTPS: default 443).

probe_zone?: string

Assign this monitor to emulate the specified zone while probing. This parameter is only valid for HTTP and HTTPS monitors.

retries?: number

The number of retries to attempt in case of a timeout before marking the origin as unhealthy. Retries are attempted immediately.

timeout?: number

The timeout (in seconds) before marking the health check as failed.

type?: "http" | "https" | "tcp" | 3 more

The protocol to use for the health check. Currently supported protocols are 'HTTP','HTTPS', 'TCP', 'ICMP-PING', 'UDP-ICMP', and 'SMTP'.

One of the following:

"http"

"https"

"tcp"

"udp_icmp"

"icmp_ping"

"smtp"

Update Monitor

TypeScript

HTTP

TypeScript

Python

Go

Terraform

import Cloudflare from 'cloudflare';

const client = new Cloudflare({
  apiToken: process.env['CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN'], // This is the default and can be omitted
});

const monitor = await client.loadBalancers.monitors.update('f1aba936b94213e5b8dca0c0dbf1f9cc', {
  account_id: '023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353',
});

console.log(monitor.id);

200 example

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "id": "f1aba936b94213e5b8dca0c0dbf1f9cc",
    "allow_insecure": true,
    "consecutive_down": 0,
    "consecutive_up": 0,
    "created_on": "2014-01-01T05:20:00.12345Z",
    "description": "Login page monitor",
    "expected_body": "alive",
    "expected_codes": "2xx",
    "follow_redirects": true,
    "header": {
      "Host": [
        "example.com"
      ],
      "X-App-ID": [
        "abc123"
      ]
    },
    "interval": 0,
    "method": "GET",
    "modified_on": "2014-01-01T05:20:00.12345Z",
    "path": "/health",
    "port": 0,
    "probe_zone": "example.com",
    "retries": 0,
    "timeout": 0,
    "type": "https"
  },
  "success": true
}

Returns Examples

200 example

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "id": "f1aba936b94213e5b8dca0c0dbf1f9cc",
    "allow_insecure": true,
    "consecutive_down": 0,
    "consecutive_up": 0,
    "created_on": "2014-01-01T05:20:00.12345Z",
    "description": "Login page monitor",
    "expected_body": "alive",
    "expected_codes": "2xx",
    "follow_redirects": true,
    "header": {
      "Host": [
        "example.com"
      ],
      "X-App-ID": [
        "abc123"
      ]
    },
    "interval": 0,
    "method": "GET",
    "modified_on": "2014-01-01T05:20:00.12345Z",
    "path": "/health",
    "port": 0,
    "probe_zone": "example.com",
    "retries": 0,
    "timeout": 0,
    "type": "https"
  },
  "success": true
}