Menu Bar App To Show Network VPN Status?

I have a VPN running at all times on a home firewall on a PFsense box via Open VPN. I configured it to kill the entire internet if the VPN connection dies, or at least I thought I did, but twice in a few years it died and left me exposed on the internet.

I know I can run a second VPN at the software level of the Mac itself, but that can slow things down a bit.

Is there an app I can install in the Menu bar that will flash bright red and punch me in the face if my network VPN is down? I would rather not have to log into the PFsense admin panel every time I am using the computer and keep it open in a separate monitor to see the status at all times.

Thanks in advance everyone and have a fantastic Thanksgiving :slight_smile:

You might be able to set up bitbar to do this.

Saw some tweets that bitbar is no more on Big Sur, TextBar might do it http://richsomerfield.com/apps/textbar/ might also work and there’s a new one called called Switfbar https://swiftbar.app/ built on bitbar.

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Thanks all, I’ll look into textbar!