Hello Anthony, as long as you know something about the data, you can use an addition "content" test to do some more detail tests.
> I’m just hitting the index api page which returns some static json. If the > api crashes that would not return a 200. Usually systemd restarts it but not > always. > See https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#HTTP the sample used to test the mmonit host is a nice sample. See example: if failed port 80 protocol http content = "foobar [0-9.]+" then alert With regards, Lutz
