I find debugging monit to be a major pain. Monit's shell environment basically has nothing in it (no paths or other environment variables). Also, there is no log file that I can find.
The problem is, if the start or stop command in the monit script fails, it is difficult to discern what is wrong with it. Often times it is not as simple as just running the command on the shell because the shell environment is different from the monit shell environment.
What are some techniques that people use to debug monit configurations?
For example, I would be happy to have a monit shell, to test my scripts in, or a log file to see what went wrong.