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 ##### Info
 No external data requests made
 
+Note that this widget is not available if you are running Dashy in a container or VM. Instead you can use the [System Monitoring](#system-resource-monitoring) widgets to display stats from the host system instead.
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 ### Cron Monitoring (Health Checks)