diff --git a/src/pages/EditMonitor.vue b/src/pages/EditMonitor.vue
index d36693bba..2d28195ec 100644
--- a/src/pages/EditMonitor.vue
+++ b/src/pages/EditMonitor.vue
@@ -732,6 +732,15 @@ message HealthCheckResponse {
             ` ]);
         },
         bodyPlaceholder() {
+            if (this.monitor && this.monitor.httpBodyEncoding && this.monitor.httpBodyEncoding === "xml") {
+                return this.$t("Example:", [ `
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
+  <soap:Body>
+    <Uptime>Kuma</Uptime>
+  </soap:Body>
+</soap:Envelope>` ]);
+            }
             return this.$t("Example:", [ `
 {
     "key": "value"