Added a quote around the "$EXPECTED" to deal with text with restricted characters. While deploying a Spring Boot application, the content of the built-in health check is {"status":"UP"}. Unfortunately all my checks failed, because for some reason the comparison didn't like this content.
remote: ! http://localhost/actuator/health: expected to but did not find: "{"status":"UP"}"
remote: ! Check attempt 7/10 failed.
After making this change, it works: I'm assuming the difference is that the presence of the quote characters in the content.