File content check for missing message

Hi,
I have a process that runs every ten minutes. Monit is monitoring the logfile for errors. However, there are times when my process hangs for about 20 minutes and there is no error logging to look for. I am trying to configure monit to notify me if it has not seen “Starting now” in the logs at least once every 11 minutes (the process takes only a couple seconds to run but I would like to check after 11 minutes. For example, my process runs and logs “Starting now” at 10:05am. Monit is running every 30 seconds. I would expect my process to again log at 10:15am. Monit, by 10:16, would notice that “Starting now” has not appeared in the log files since 10:05 and it would notify my. I have tried the following:

check file fuse.log with path /app/jboss-fuse-6.0.0.redhat-024/data/log/fuse.log
    if content != "Start Batch Outage" for 22 cycles then alert
    alert [email protected] on {
        content } with mail-format { subject: PROD ALARM!! }
    group server

Should the != work here? I get a notification every 30 seconds that it “matched” the rule. Perhaps I am misunderstanding how this should work?

Thanks!
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