Monit - Adjusting host name

Question

I have some systems which are provisioned via autoscaling groups and the host names are just the IP address of the system.

This is not very helpful in MMonit.

I'd like to do something like:

check system dev-kubernetes-minion-$HOST

But this errors out:

Nov 18 18:11:11 ip-172-20-0-5 monit[27043]: Starting daemon monitor: monit/etc/monitrc:12: syntax error '$HOST'

Is there a way to adjust the 'name' of the reporting system?

Thanks, Drew