diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f02a87a52e..5817013c90 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ but cannot always guarantee backwards compatibility. Changes that may **break co
     - Additional boosts for slicing with integers and Timestamps
     - Additional boosts for `from_group_dataframe()` by performing some of the heavy-duty computations on the entire DataFrame, rather than iteratively on the group level.
   - Added option to exclude some `group_cols` from being added as static covariates when using `TimeSeries.from_group_dataframe()` with parameter `drop_group_cols`.
+- Improvements to `TorchForecastingModel`:
+  - Added support for additional lr scheduler configuration parameters for more control ("interval", "frequency", "monitor", "strict", "name"). [#2218](https://github.com/unit8co/darts/pull/2218) by [Dennis Bader](https://github.com/dennisbader).
 
 **Fixed**
 - Fixed a bug in probabilistic `LinearRegressionModel.fit()`, where the `model` attribute was not pointing to all underlying estimators. [#2205](https://github.com/unit8co/darts/pull/2205) by [Antoine Madrona](https://github.com/madtoinou).
diff --git a/darts/models/forecasting/pl_forecasting_module.py b/darts/models/forecasting/pl_forecasting_module.py
index ab98ee59c2..5610a2d3df 100644
--- a/darts/models/forecasting/pl_forecasting_module.py
+++ b/darts/models/forecasting/pl_forecasting_module.py
@@ -402,16 +402,25 @@ def _create_from_cls_and_kwargs(cls, kws):
             lr_sched_kws = {k: v for k, v in self.lr_scheduler_kwargs.items()}
             lr_sched_kws["optimizer"] = optimizer
 
-            # ReduceLROnPlateau requires a metric to "monitor" which must be set separately, most others do not
-            lr_monitor = lr_sched_kws.pop("monitor", None)
+            # lr scheduler can be configured with lightning; defaults below
+            lr_config_params = {
+                "monitor": "val_loss",
+                "interval": "epoch",
+                "frequency": 1,
+                "strict": True,
+                "name": None,
+            }
+            # update config with user params
+            lr_config_params = {
+                k: (v if k not in lr_sched_kws else lr_sched_kws.pop(k))
+                for k, v in lr_config_params.items()
+            }
 
             lr_scheduler = _create_from_cls_and_kwargs(
                 self.lr_scheduler_cls, lr_sched_kws
             )
-            return [optimizer], {
-                "scheduler": lr_scheduler,
-                "monitor": lr_monitor if lr_monitor is not None else "val_loss",
-            }
+
+            return [optimizer], dict({"scheduler": lr_scheduler}, **lr_config_params)
         else:
             return optimizer
 
diff --git a/darts/tests/models/forecasting/test_torch_forecasting_model.py b/darts/tests/models/forecasting/test_torch_forecasting_model.py
index 24b8fd501e..77ad8aa07a 100644
--- a/darts/tests/models/forecasting/test_torch_forecasting_model.py
+++ b/darts/tests/models/forecasting/test_torch_forecasting_model.py
@@ -1188,29 +1188,35 @@ def test_optimizers(self):
                 # should not raise an error
                 model.fit(self.series, epochs=1)
 
-        def test_lr_schedulers(self):
-
-            lr_schedulers = [
+        @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+            "lr_scheduler",
+            [
                 (torch.optim.lr_scheduler.StepLR, {"step_size": 10}),
                 (
                     torch.optim.lr_scheduler.ReduceLROnPlateau,
-                    {"threshold": 0.001, "monitor": "train_loss"},
+                    {
+                        "threshold": 0.001,
+                        "monitor": "train_loss",
+                        "interval": "step",
+                        "frequency": 2,
+                    },
                 ),
                 (torch.optim.lr_scheduler.ExponentialLR, {"gamma": 0.09}),
-            ]
-
-            for lr_scheduler_cls, lr_scheduler_kwargs in lr_schedulers:
-                model = RNNModel(
-                    12,
-                    "RNN",
-                    10,
-                    10,
-                    lr_scheduler_cls=lr_scheduler_cls,
-                    lr_scheduler_kwargs=lr_scheduler_kwargs,
-                    **tfm_kwargs,
-                )
-                # should not raise an error
-                model.fit(self.series, epochs=1)
+            ],
+        )
+        def test_lr_schedulers(self, lr_scheduler):
+            lr_scheduler_cls, lr_scheduler_kwargs = lr_scheduler
+            model = RNNModel(
+                12,
+                "RNN",
+                10,
+                10,
+                lr_scheduler_cls=lr_scheduler_cls,
+                lr_scheduler_kwargs=lr_scheduler_kwargs,
+                **tfm_kwargs,
+            )
+            # should not raise an error
+            model.fit(self.series, epochs=1)
 
         def test_wrong_model_creation_params(self):
             valid_kwarg = {"pl_trainer_kwargs": {}}