Free alternatives to M/Monit interface for the Monit systems management system [closed]

I really like Monit systems management system but I have no IT budget to purchase M/Monit interface which is used to manage multiple hosts for our small university lab. I have checked out Ruby based monittr and I see that Django people are cooking something. Can anybody give me some advice to a simple wrapper which can help me pull info from multiple servers?

Edit: How is this question duplicate? I am not asking about monitoring tools. I have evaluated probably half dozen of those in the past two weeks. I am asking a very specific question about a very specific monitoring tool. I concede that as unpleasant as it might be the comment I received from ewwhite was a valid observation.

I contacted M/Monit support directly about the pricing issue...

When asked if they offer a discount for education:

"Unfortunately no, but for not-for profit organisations we might donate a license."

But the fact remains that the unlimited license cost is intentionally low at ~$590.

As for free alternative monitoring frameworks, I worked at a DevOps-focused firm that was unaware of Monit's existence, so they ended up writing their own solution. Check it at Github - https://github.com/ZenFire/gaggled

You could also just rely on the free Monit emails and perhaps script around or parse the command-line monit status output. It's pretty easy to digest...

# monit status
The Monit daemon 5.5 uptime: 1d 20h 32m 

System 'xt.brazzers.com'
  status                            Running
  monitoring status                 Monitored
  load average                      [0.96] [0.53] [0.67]
  cpu                               50.2%us 1.4%sy 2.1%wa
  memory usage                      5070168 kB [84.7%]
  swap usage                        0 kB [0.0%]
  data collected                    Fri, 27 Dec 2013 07:06:10

Filesystem 'var'
  status                            Accessible
  monitoring status                 Monitored
  permission                        755
  uid                               0
  gid                               0
  filesystem flags                  0x1000
  block size                        4096 B
  blocks total                      1548176 [6047.6 MB]
  blocks free for non superuser     860636 [3361.9 MB] [55.6%]
  blocks free total                 939279 [3669.1 MB] [60.7%]
  inodes total                      393216
  inodes free                       378393 [96.2%]
  data collected                    Fri, 27 Dec 2013 07:06:10

Process 'orca'
  status                            Running
  monitoring status                 Monitored
  pid                               2720
  parent pid                        1
  uptime                            1d 9h 5m 
  children                          0
  memory kilobytes                  439120
  memory kilobytes total            439120
  memory percent                    7.3%
  memory percent total              7.3%
  cpu percent                       49.9%
  cpu percent total                 49.9%
  data collected                    Fri, 27 Dec 2013 07:06:10