diff --git a/configs/README.md b/configs/README.md
index 27e2fb6e..8422cc7d 100644
--- a/configs/README.md
+++ b/configs/README.md
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ Here you can specify options for tuning.
 | Key        | Type              | Default value | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
 | ---------- | ----------------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
 | study_name | str               | "test-study"  | Name of the study.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| continue_existing_study | bool              | True          | Weather to continue existing study if `study_name` already exists.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 | use_pruner | bool              | True          | Whether to use the MedianPruner.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
 | n_trials   | int \| None       | 15            | Number of trials for each process. `None` represents no limit in terms of numbner of trials.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
 | timeout    | int \| None       | None          | Stop study after the given number of seconds.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
diff --git a/luxonis_train/core/tuner.py b/luxonis_train/core/tuner.py
index c9f8e151..b5e61632 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/core/tuner.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/core/tuner.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def tune(self) -> None:
             storage=storage,
             direction="minimize",
             pruner=pruner,
-            load_if_exists=True,
+            load_if_exists=self.tune_cfg.continue_existing_study,
         )
 
         study.optimize(
@@ -94,9 +94,7 @@ def _objective(self, trial: optuna.trial.Trial) -> float:
             save_dir=run_save_dir,
             input_shape=self.loader_train.input_shape,
         )
-        pruner_callback = PyTorchLightningPruningCallback(
-            trial, monitor="val_loss/loss"
-        )
+        pruner_callback = PyTorchLightningPruningCallback(trial, monitor="val/loss")
         callbacks: list[pl.Callback] = (
             [LuxonisProgressBar()] if self.cfg.use_rich_text else []
         )
diff --git a/luxonis_train/utils/config.py b/luxonis_train/utils/config.py
index 48661f7d..b15f407a 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/utils/config.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/utils/config.py
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ class StorageConfig(BaseModel):
 
 class TunerConfig(BaseModel):
     study_name: str = "test-study"
+    continue_existing_study: bool = True
     use_pruner: bool = True
     n_trials: int | None = 15
     timeout: int | None = None
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index eecf828e..6e2a8714 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ luxonis-ml[all]>=0.0.1
 onnx>=1.12.0
 onnxruntime>=1.13.1
 onnxsim>=0.4.10
-optuna>=3.2.0
+optuna>=3.6.0
+optuna-integration>=3.6.0
 psycopg2-binary>=2.9.1
 pycocotools>=2.0.7
 rich>=13.0.0