Set your profile and account defaults

Your Profile holds two kinds of settings: your personal display preferences, and the account-wide defaults that new monitors and contacts inherit when you create them. Neither changes how anything already running is monitored - defaults only apply going forward.

Display preferences

Open the top-right menu -> Profile. These are personal preferences: they change how information is shown to you, not how anything is monitored.

Settings reference

Setting (UI label)	API field (v2 JSON path)	Type / allowed values	Default	Plan limits	What it does for you
First name / Last name	firstName, lastName	string	empty	none	Shown in your profile and on receipts.
Company	company	string	empty	none	Shown on invoices.
Phone	phone	string	empty	none	Contact number on file.
Country	country	ISO country code	none	none	Used for invoices and localisation.
Time zone	timezone	IANA time zone id	account’s signup zone	none	Converts every timestamp shown in the dashboard, reports and status pages to your local time.
Language	language	language code (en, de, fr, …)	your signup language	none	The language the app and email alerts are shown in.
Date format, Time format	not on PATCH /account (first-party profile only)	preset strings	account default	none	How timestamps are displayed across the dashboard, reports and status pages.
Theme	not an account field (browser-local)	Light / Dark / Auto	Auto	none	Auto follows your system preference.

Set your display preferences in the app

1. Open the top-right menu -> Profile.
2. Edit any of Theme, Language, Date format, Time format or Time zone.
3. Save.

Do it with the API or MCP

PATCH /account (scope account:write) accepts a partial update of firstName, lastName, company, phone, country, timezone and language - send only the fields you’re changing; "" clears a text field. timezone accepts either an IANA id (Europe/Berlin) or the equivalent Windows zone name and always reads back as IANA. dateFormat/timeFormat/phoneExt and the per-service-type default agent pools are first-party profile fields only (POST /user), not on this endpoint. There is no MCP tool for writing profile settings - the MCP server is deliberately read-only on /account (profile, email and defaults are treated as identity data you change yourself in the app).

PATCH /account
Authorization: Bearer <token>
{ "timezone": "Europe/Berlin", "language": "de" }

Account defaults

The Defaults tab (Profile -> Defaults) sets what a brand-new monitor or contact starts with, so you don’t have to repeat the same choices every time. Changing a default only affects things you create after the change - it never edits monitors or contacts you already have.

New-monitor defaults

Setting (UI label)	Default	What it does for you
Default monitoring locations	All world	See Set your default monitoring locations for the full guide, including the pool fallback setting.
Check interval	trial/plan default	The interval a new monitor starts with.
Timeout	plan/type default	The timeout a new monitor starts with.
Down confirmations (minimum down count)	plan default	How many re-checking locations must agree before a new monitor is confirmed down - see How down detection works.
Tags	none	Tags automatically applied to every new monitor.
Attach SSL/TLS expiry	off	New Website/HTTPS monitors start with a certificate-expiry sub-check attached.
Attach domain expiry	off	New monitors start with a domain-expiry sub-check attached.
Attach DNS blacklist (DNSBL)	off	New monitors start with a DNSBL sub-check attached.
Attach indexability	off	New Website/HTTPS monitors start with the site-indexability sub-check attached (where your plan includes it).
Public status page (open stat)	off	New monitors start with their public stats page enabled or disabled.
Subscribe new monitors to all contacts	off	Every existing contact is automatically subscribed to alerts (and reports) on a newly created monitor.

New-contact defaults

Setting (UI label)	Default	What it does for you
Subscribe to alerts on all monitors	off	A newly created contact is automatically subscribed to Down/Up alerts on every existing monitor.
Subscribe to reports on all monitors	off	A newly created contact is automatically subscribed to periodic reports on every existing monitor.
Include repeated-down alerts	off	Whether a new contact keeps being notified while an outage continues, not just at the start.
Alert delay	none	How many missed checks a new contact waits through before the first notification.
Grouped alerts	account default	Whether a new contact’s alerts are batched together rather than sent one by one.
Language	your profile language	The language a new contact’s alerts and reports are sent in.
Quiet hours	off	A daily time window (start/end) during which a new contact is not notified.
Send news/product updates	account default	Whether a new contact is opted in to non-alert HostTracker email.

Set account defaults in the app

1. Open Profile -> Defaults.
2. Adjust the new-monitor defaults and/or new-contact defaults sections above.
3. Save.

Note

Changing a default only affects things you create after the change. To push a new location set onto monitors you already have, use bulk edit - see Set your default monitoring locations.

Related

• Set your default monitoring locations
• Sign in with Google, Microsoft or LinkedIn
• Subaccounts & permissions