The Pling host agent
The Pling host agent is a small, cross-platform binary you install on a server. It streams live CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics to the iPhone app, relays shared SSH and Mosh sessions, and runs scheduled commands on a timer. Install it in about a minute on the platforms below.
Install the agent
macOSHomebrew, curl, or signed menu-bar app
$Linuxcurl one-liner, systemd, or manual binary
>WindowsPowerShell installer, runs as a service
/SourceThe agent is open source on GitHub
What the agent does
- Live metrics — CPU, memory, disk, and network, streamed to the app in real time.
- Scheduled commands — run a command on a timer and get the result as a push.
- Session relay — powers shared SSH and Mosh sessions you can hand off as a link.
Looking to send push notifications from a script instead? See the API docs, or the recipes for GitHub Actions, cron, and Python.