Re: How to use curl to check if service is down?

Hello Anthony,
see the way Maik suggested or see
https://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/ConfigurationExamples#apache
for some more useful hints.

You can use "curl" in a script used in a "check program" service.
But monit can do the job also, see
https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#CONNECTION-TESTS

>  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?
> 

Have a nice weekend,
Lutz