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To monitor nodes' healthiness, there are tools for Bitcoin and Ethereum (e.g. https://github.com/cubedro/eth-net-intelligence-api). Some of them are tools that sends heartbeats representing an uprunning node.
Currently, for Stellar-Core, I set PUBLIC_HTTP_PORT=true, and my firewall limits that port from external access.
Other than tuning firewall policies, is there any other way / tools for external parties to check my node healthiness?
You can get the latest ledger header from horizon, for instance the following command would work from the command line:
curl 'https://horizon.stellar.org/ledgers?limit=1&order=desc'
Obviously substitute the node you actually care about for horizon.stellar.org.
The sequence and closed_at fields give you the ledger number and close time, which will give you an indication of how recently the node reached consensus. If you are worried about actual forks from misconfigured quorum slices, then you can look at the hash and prev_hash fields and make sure those match the same ledger number at other validators.
More documentation is available in the ledger endpoint description in the REST API documentation.
