---
title: stack kb synthetics put-synthetic-monitors-bulk-update cli command
description: Bulk update monitors Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4493/reference/elastic-cli/cli/stack/kb/synthetics/put-synthetic-monitors-bulk-update
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview
---

# stack kb synthetics put-synthetic-monitors-bulk-update cli command
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```bash
elastic stack kb synthetics put-synthetic-monitors-bulk-update \
  --updates <updates> \
  [options]
```

Bulk update monitors
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--updates string[] required">
    Monitors to update. Minimum 1 entry, maximum 1000. Each `id` may appear at most once. `attributes` must contain at least one field.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--updates` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--no-validate">
    skip input validation and send the request as-is
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--output-fields string">
    comma-separated list of fields to include in output (dot-notation supported)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--output-template string">
    Mustache-like template for custom text output (e.g. "{{id}}: {{name}}")
  </definition>
  <definition term="--json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>