You need to enable the httpd daemon with monit to actually view the status and control, it's not only for the web interface since the httpd is the ONLY way of controlling monit and viewing the status.

monit monitor all will also reinstate disabled services if they've timed out too much.  Just restarting the service will do nothing to re-monitor a service that monit has stopped monitoring due to too many failures.

*Also note that /etc/monit.conf is what is used for configuring all parameters, the monitrc file seems to be deprecated, this includes setting the daemon time:

monit -c /etc/monitrc status
monit: The control file '/etc/monitrc' must have permissions no more than -rwx------ (0700); right now permissions are -rw-r--r-- (0644).
[root@boxhost vhosts]# chmod 700 /etc/monitrc
[root@boxhost vhosts]# monit -c /etc/monitrc status
monit: generated unique Monit id f9a36510746eba21b0ec9418de8850d5 and stored to '/root/.monit.id'
monit: error connecting to the monit daemon
[root@boxhost vhosts]# monit -c /etc/monitrc status
monit: error connecting to the monit daemon

edit /etc/monit.conf:

set httpd port 2812
  allow localhost

service monit restart