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nabf5guy
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Jul 27, 2025

Maximum send string length for an HTTPS monitor?

Hi team,   Happy to get a document reference, but what is the limit on the send string length for HTTP/HTTPS monitors? Receive string length is pretty easy to find, but I am having no luck for the ...
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Sravs
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Jul 28, 2025

An HTTP health monitor can read up to 5,120 bytes of HTTP data.

If you need the health monitor to look deeper than that, you’ll need to use an Extended Application Verification (EAV) monitor instead. How much data it can read depends on the tool it’s using like cURL, for example.