Running monit without http and apache

[David Pratt]

Hi, I am investigating monitoring solutions and have been reading monit 
documentation. I am seeking a pure command line utility for monitoring - 
from what I have read, monit is quite close to what I have in mind.

I do not want the overhead or potential security issues that can come 
from another framework or web server. I just want to monitor, log, query 
and collect results from the system so really just interested in the 
core of what monit can do. I also want some action to be triggered if 
there is a problem.

I am not certain that monit can be used this way since it seems quite 
tied to a http interface. Hoping someone can provide clarification as to 
whether results can be collected (even if it is though a debugging 
command line interface) without a running web server.

Many thanks

Regards,
David