For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

Paul3's avatar
Paul3
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Jul 09, 2025

BIG-IQ: how to change interval checks for health status of pools and poolmembers

Greetings, yesterday I noticed that the BIG-IQ does take its sweet time to notify the user of a failing healthcheck. In my case I noticed that the poolmember went down at 04:20 PM (source LTM log) a...
BIG-IQ
VGF5's avatar
VGF5
Icon for Cumulonimbus rankCumulonimbus
Jul 09, 2025

Hi Paul3​ 

No, BIG-IQ does not provide an option to configure in the GUI or REST API to change the polling interval for health status checks of pools and pool members. The delay you observe (3-5 minutes) is due to the internal polling interval that BIG-IQ uses to collect health status from managed BIG-IP devices.