Alert when Node Red is Not Started

Any easy way to setup an HA notify alert when Node-Red is offline? I’ve had several instances where Node-Red is not running for whatever reason despite having watchdog enabled on the add-on.

My first thought was a heartbeat automation.
Imagine you have one automation in HA that turns off a boolean every 5 minutes or whatever you find appropriate.
Then in Node red you have an automation to turn the same boolean on every five minutes.

Then a third automatio is if boolean is off for 6 minutes, notify you

That’s amazing!! Great idea!

There is already a binary sensor in the supervisor integration, it just needs to be enabled. Go to integrations, supervisor, click on entities, scroll to node red, then under sensors choose entities not shown and enable running…

Btw this should be available for all add ons

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even better! thanks!