Most of the examples of Monit checking a web address' health is for localhost and in connection with checking the apache process. However, in case you want to monitor remote addresses, you'll need this:
check host domain.com with address domain.com every 6 cycles
if failed port 80 protocol http for 5 cycles then alert
alert your.email@provider.com { connection, timeout } with mail-format {
from: monit@your-server.com
subject: $EVENT at $DATE on $HOST
message: domain.com is unreachable from your-server.com server
}(Oh, by the way: this entry was written by Peter Molnar, and originally posted on petermolnar dot net.)
