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.

✨ 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

Pulse AI (New in 5.0)

Chat Assistant: Ask questions about your infrastructure in natural language
Patrol: Background health checks that generate findings on a schedule
Alert Analysis: 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: Enterprise authentication support
Privacy Focused: No telemetry, all 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

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.

🌐 Community Integrations

Community-maintained integrations and addons:

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

🚀 Pulse Pro

Pulse Pro unlocks AI Patrol — automated background monitoring that catches issues before they become outages.

Feature	Free	Pro
Real-time dashboard	✅	✅
Threshold alerts	✅	✅
AI Chat (BYOK)	✅	✅
AI Patrol (automated scans)	—	✅
Root cause analysis	—	✅
Priority support	—	✅

AI Patrol runs on your schedule (every 5 minutes to every 24 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

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

❤️ 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!

README.md

Pulse

🚀 Overview