Can a Health Monitor tell a server's 'ping' page about the F5's status?

About 10mins after I posted my question, I discovered iControlREST: https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/icontrol-rest/! 

If allows:

[root@bigip:Active:Standalone] x # curl --silent --insecure --user admin:xxx https://localhost:8443/mgmt/tm/ltm/
pool/"~Common~mypool"/members/stats | jq -c '[( .entries[].nestedStats.entries | { address:.addr.description, port:.port.v
alue, curSessions:."serverside.curConns".value, state:.monitorStatus.description })]'
[{"address":"192.168.1.3","port":8443,"curSessions":0,"state":"down"},{"address":"192.168.1.3","port":8543,"curSessions":0,"state":"user-down"},{"address":"192.168.1.3","port":8643,"curSessions":0,"state":"user-down"},{"address":"192.168.1.3","port":8743,"curSessions":0,"state":"user-down"},{"address":"192.168.1.100","port":8080,"curSessions":0,"state":"down"}]

Having curl and jq work together is simple and powerful.

This appears to be just what I need...easy to wrap into a bash script that I can set as an external monitor.

I now have a pretty small bash script that takes the JSON above and passes it in the body of a POST to my app's ping endpoint.

I hope it is performant enough for The Small Gods of the F5 to accept it for PROD use. Should be. We will see...

I accumulated some useful references...happy to share:

useful refs:
https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/icontrol-rest/APIRef_tm_ltm.html

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K17283308

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K71282813

https://community.f5.com/t5/tag/series-icontrol-rest-jq-cookbook/tg-p

https://community.f5.com/t5/tag/series-demystifying-icontrol-rest/tg-p/board-id/TechnicalArticles

https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/json-and-jq

https://cdn.f5.com/websites/devcentral.f5.com/downloads/icontrol-rest-api-user-guide-15-1-0.pdf 

There's some really Good Stuff there...very helpful.

Cheers!