I found the problem. All the items in the "Monitoring Service" were "OFF". -- Apparently must be at least LOW.
I didn't read the note in the admin guide carefully enough: "In the Admin Console, the monitoring level (LOW or HIGH) has no effect on monitoring the HTTP Service."
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