Re: use curl to check if api is down or up

Mike D <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jun 2022 21:32:23 -0500

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I believe you could do something like this:

 check host mmonit.com with address mmonit.com
       if failed
          port 80 protocol http and request "/location/of/whatever"
method GET status = 502
       then restart


On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 7:25 PM Anthony Ettinger <[email protected]> wrote:

> I want to use monit and curl so that curl would hit and api and check if
> its up, if it gets a 502 or similar error then restart the systemd service.
>
> How would I do this?
>
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> Anthony
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>