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title: Using Health Monitors
slug: ps/help/en_us/vtm/userguide/using-health-monitors
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createdAt: 2026-08-02T07:48:41.377Z
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### Applying a Monitor to a Pool

To apply a monitor to a pool, click **Services > Pools**. Then click the name of a pool to edit it.

Click **Health Monitoring** to choose the monitors used by the pool. You can add a new monitor from the drop-down list, clicking **Add Monitor** when you have finished. To change settings for a monitor attached to your pool, click the **Edit In Catalog** link against it.

:::hint{type="info"}
A monitor sending test requests will increase the load on a pool, albeit by a small amount. You should ensure that your back-end servers can handle the traffic produced by the monitors, to avoid a DoS failure.
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