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

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