When a host is not responding (monit stopped, or host down) the application crashes with
ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='example.com', port=2812): Max retries exceeded with url: /_status?format=xml (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f13380c7dd0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',))
When a host is not responding (monit stopped, or host down) the application crashes with
What about marking the host somehow as down?