Bundled Monit as a general purpose network monitor

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi all,

I am running Monit on my FreeNAS in a FreeBSD jail to monitor all of my private infrastructure. From browsing the OPNsense UI I get the impression the bundled Monit instance is limited to checking local services. Is that true? Can I implement something like this?

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check host public-cloud address cloud.hausen.com
  if failed
    port 443 protocol HTTPS
    with http headers [Host: cloud.hausen.com]
    and request "/login" with content = "Hausen Family Cloud Home"
    for 3 cycles
  then alert


It would be great if I could retire yet another jail and run essential services on that 24x7 on appliance while hacking on my FreeNAS ...

Thanks,
Patrick