Monit cannot read content

Question

I've installed the latest version of Monit and created a very basic rule: alert me when the word "Google" cannot be found on google.com (deface check).

I keep getting following error: failed to [www.google.com]:443/ type TCP/IP using SSL/TLS protocol HTTP

Should I open some kind of different port if I want to check the content? Without the content rule it's working just fine. I already tried opening port 80 and 443.

    check host google with address srv1.google.com
  if failed url http://www.google.com
    content == "Google"
    with timeout 20 seconds for 2 cycles then alert

Monit is hosted on a Synology NAS.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 02 '16 at 11:19

Here you are trying to access http://www.google.com but it seems google is now only supporting httpS.

Try to change your rule to use HTTPS:

if failed url https://www.google.com

Syntax is more like (didn't try to validate it so not sure)

check host google with address srv1.google.com
  if failed
    port 443
    protocol https
    content = "Google"
       with timeout 20 seconds for 2 cycles then alert

Monit cannot read content

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