What would be the best practice for installing the agent on a virtual Linux machine where I don't have root access?

• The server is managed at/by cloudways.com
• Their support is phenomenal, I can always direct them to install for me (but then I would have to give them my account password)
• For the most part I would just need to monitor a running instance of Laravel (web framework) on Apache and MySQL (i saw MySQL monitoring is currently in the works)
• Would the API be a better solution for this case?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Hi,

Welcome to the Pulseway community. You can write a script (bash, ruby, python or whatever you want) to call the API to publish the status of the service and send notifications when the services stop.

Chris