Pulse is a modern, unified dashboard for monitoring your infrastructure across Proxmox, Docker, and Kubernetes. It consolidates metrics, alerts, and AI-powered insights from all your systems into a single, beautiful interface.

Designed for homelabs, sysadmins, and MSPs who need a "single pane of glass" without the complexity of enterprise monitoring stacks.

Pulse now groups everything by task instead of data source:

Infrastructure for hosts and nodes
Workloads for VMs, containers, and Kubernetes pods
Storage and Backups as top-level views
PMG now routes into Infrastructure (source filter), and Kubernetes routes into Workloads (K8s filter)
Legacy /services and /kubernetes URLs are compatibility redirects; update bookmarks to canonical routes
Admins can sunset all legacy redirects immediately with PULSE_DISABLE_LEGACY_ROUTE_REDIRECTS=true (or disableLegacyRouteRedirects in system.json)

Power-user shortcuts:

g i → Infrastructure, g w → Workloads, ? → shortcuts help
/ or Cmd/Ctrl+K → global search

✨ Features

Core Monitoring

Unified Monitoring: View health and metrics for PVE, PBS, PMG, Docker, and Kubernetes in one place
Smart Alerts: Get notified via Discord, Slack, Telegram, Email, and more
Auto-Discovery: Automatically finds Proxmox nodes on your network
Metrics History: Persistent storage with configurable retention
Backup Explorer: Visualize backup jobs and storage usage

AI-Powered

Chat Assistant (BYOK): Ask questions about your infrastructure in natural language
Patrol (BYOK): Background health checks that generate findings on a schedule
Alert Analysis (Pro/Cloud): Optional AI analysis when alerts fire
Cost Tracking: Track usage and costs per provider/model

Multi-Platform

Proxmox VE/PBS/PMG: Full monitoring and management
Kubernetes: Complete K8s cluster monitoring via agents
Docker/Podman: Container and Swarm service monitoring
OCI Containers: Proxmox 9.1+ native container support

Security & Operations

Secure by Design: Credentials encrypted at rest, strict API scoping
One-Click Updates: Easy upgrades for supported deployments
OIDC/SSO: Single sign-on authentication
Privacy Focused: No outbound telemetry by default. Monitoring data stays on your server.

⚡ Quick Start

Option 1: Proxmox LXC (Recommended)

Run this one-liner on your Proxmox host to create a lightweight LXC container:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash

Note: this installs the Pulse server. Agent installs use the command generated in Settings → Unified Agents → Installation commands (served from /install.sh on your Pulse server).

Option 2: Docker

docker run -d \
  --name pulse \
  -p 7655:7655 \
  -v pulse_data:/data \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  rcourtman/pulse:latest

Access the dashboard at http://<your-ip>:7655.

📚 Documentation

Installation Guide: Detailed instructions for Docker, Kubernetes, and bare metal.
Configuration: Setup authentication, notifications, and advanced settings.
Security: Learn about Pulse's security model and best practices.
API Reference: Integrate Pulse with your own tools.
Architecture: High-level system design and data flow.
Troubleshooting: Solutions to common issues.
Agent Security: Details on checksum-verified updates and verification.
Docker Monitoring: Setup and management of Docker agents.

🌐 Community Integrations

Community-maintained integrations and addons:

Home Assistant Addons - Run Pulse Agent and Pulse Server as Home Assistant addons.

💳 Plans (Community / Pro / Cloud)

Pulse is full-featured for core monitoring in every tier. Paid tiers unlock additional capabilities (and Cloud removes hosting/AI setup friction).

Community is free and self-hosted. Pro is a paid, self-hosted license. Cloud is the hosted plan and includes Pro capabilities.

The table below is derived from the canonical entitlement source of truth: docs/architecture/ENTITLEMENT_MATRIX.md.

Capability	Community	Pro	Cloud
Pulse Patrol (Background Health Checks)	✅	✅	✅
Alert Analysis	—	✅	✅
Pulse Patrol Auto-Fix	—	✅	✅
Kubernetes Analysis	—	✅	✅
Centralized Agent Profiles	—	✅	✅
Update Alerts (Container/Package Updates)	✅	✅	✅
Basic SSO (OIDC)	✅	✅	✅
Advanced SSO (SAML/Multi-Provider)	—	✅	✅
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)	—	✅	✅
Enterprise Audit Logging	—	✅	✅
Advanced Infrastructure Reporting (PDF/CSV)	—	✅	✅
90-Day Metric History	—	✅	✅
Remote Access (Mobile Relay)	—	✅	✅

Pulse Patrol runs on your schedule (every 10 minutes to every 7 days, default 6 hours) and finds:

ZFS pools approaching capacity
Backup jobs that silently failed
VMs stuck in restart loops
Clock drift across cluster nodes
Container health check failures

On self-hosted installs, Pulse Patrol uses your configured provider (BYOK) and runs entirely on your server.

Technical highlights:

Cross-system context (nodes, VMs, backups, containers, and metrics history)
LLM analysis with your provider + alert-triggered deep dives (Pro/Cloud)
Optional auto-fix with command safety policies and audit trail
Centralized agent profiles for consistent fleet settings

Try the live demo → or learn more at pulserelay.pro

Pulse Pro technical details: docs/PULSE_PRO.md

❤️ Support Pulse Development

Pulse is maintained by one person. Sponsorships help cover the costs of the demo server, development tools, and domains. If Pulse saves you time, please consider supporting the project!

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