Pulse/docs/API.md

🔌 Pulse API Reference

Pulse provides a comprehensive REST API for automation and integration.

Base URL: http://<your-pulse-ip>:7655/api

🔐 Authentication

Most API requests require authentication via one of the following methods:

1. API Token (Recommended) Pass the token in the X-API-Token header.

curl -H "X-API-Token: your-token" http://localhost:7655/api/health

2. Bearer Token

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer your-token" http://localhost:7655/api/health

3. Session Cookie Standard browser session cookie (used by the UI).

Public endpoints include:

• GET /api/health
• GET /api/version

🔏 Scopes and Admin Access

Some endpoints require admin privileges and/or scopes. Common scopes include:

• monitoring:read
• settings:read
• settings:write

Endpoints that require admin access are noted below.

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📡 Core Endpoints

System Health

GET /api/health Check if Pulse is running.

{ "status": "healthy", "uptime": 3600 }

System State

GET /api/state Returns the complete state of your infrastructure (Nodes, VMs, Containers, Storage, Alerts). This is the main endpoint used by the dashboard.

Version Info

GET /api/version Returns version, build time, and update status.

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🖥️ Nodes & Config

List Nodes

GET /api/config/nodes

Add Node

POST /api/config/nodes

{
  "type": "pve",
  "name": "Proxmox 1",
  "host": "https://192.168.1.10:8006",
  "user": "root@pam",
  "password": "password"
}

Test Connection

POST /api/config/nodes/test-connection Validate credentials before saving.

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📊 Metrics & Charts

Chart Data

GET /api/charts?range=1h Returns time-series data for CPU, Memory, and Storage. Ranges: 1h, 24h, 7d, 30d

Storage Charts

GET /api/storage-charts Returns storage chart data.

Storage Stats

GET /api/storage/ Detailed storage usage per node and pool.

Backup History

GET /api/backups/unified Combined view of PVE and PBS backups.

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🔔 Notifications

Send Test Notification

POST /api/notifications/test (admin) Triggers a test alert to all configured channels.

Email, Apprise, and Webhooks

• GET /api/notifications/email (admin)
• PUT /api/notifications/email (admin)
• GET /api/notifications/apprise (admin)
• PUT /api/notifications/apprise (admin)
• GET /api/notifications/webhooks (admin)
• POST /api/notifications/webhooks (admin)
• PUT /api/notifications/webhooks/<id> (admin)
• DELETE /api/notifications/webhooks/<id> (admin)
• POST /api/notifications/webhooks/test (admin)
• GET /api/notifications/webhook-templates (admin)
• GET /api/notifications/webhook-history (admin)
• GET /api/notifications/email-providers (admin)
• GET /api/notifications/health (admin)

Queue and Dead-Letter Tools

• GET /api/notifications/queue/stats (admin)
• GET /api/notifications/dlq (admin)
• POST /api/notifications/dlq/retry (admin)
• POST /api/notifications/dlq/delete (admin)

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🛡️ Security

List API Tokens

GET /api/security/tokens

Create API Token

POST /api/security/tokens

{ "name": "ansible-script", "scopes": ["monitoring:read"] }

Revoke Token

DELETE /api/security/tokens/<id>

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⚙️ System Settings

Get Settings

GET /api/system/settings Retrieve current system settings.

Update Settings

POST /api/system/settings/update Update system settings. Requires admin + settings:write.

Toggle Mock Mode

POST /api/system/mock-mode Enable or disable mock data generation (dev/demo only).

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🔑 OIDC / SSO

Get OIDC Config

GET /api/security/oidc Retrieve current OIDC provider settings.

Update OIDC Config

POST /api/security/oidc Configure OIDC provider details (Issuer, Client ID, etc).

Login

GET /api/oidc/login Initiate OIDC login flow.

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🤖 Pulse AI (v5)

Get AI Settings

GET /api/settings/ai Returns current AI configuration (providers, models, patrol status). Requires admin + settings:read.

Update AI Settings

PUT /api/settings/ai/update (or POST /api/settings/ai/update) Configure AI providers, API keys, and preferences. Requires admin + settings:write.

List Models

GET /api/ai/models Lists models available to the configured providers (queried live from provider APIs).

Execute (Chat + Tools)

POST /api/ai/execute Runs an AI request which may return tool calls, findings, or suggested actions.

Execute (Streaming)

POST /api/ai/execute/stream Streaming variant of execute (used by the UI for incremental responses).

Patrol

• GET /api/ai/patrol/status
• GET /api/ai/patrol/findings
• GET /api/ai/patrol/history
• GET /api/ai/patrol/stream
• POST /api/ai/patrol/run (admin)

Cost Tracking

• GET /api/ai/cost/summary
• POST /api/ai/cost/reset (admin)
• GET /api/ai/cost/export (admin)

📈 Metrics Store (v5)

Store Stats

GET /api/metrics-store/stats Returns stats for the persistent metrics store (SQLite-backed).

History

GET /api/metrics-store/history Returns historical metric series for a resource and time range.

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🤖 Agent Endpoints

Unified Agent (Recommended)

GET /download/pulse-agent Downloads the unified agent binary for the current platform.

The unified agent combines host, Docker, and Kubernetes monitoring. Use --enable-docker or --enable-kubernetes to enable additional metrics.

See UNIFIED_AGENT.md for installation instructions.

Unified Agent Installer Script

GET /install.sh Serves the universal install.sh used to install pulse-agent on target machines.

Legacy Agents (Deprecated)

GET /download/pulse-host-agent - Deprecated, use pulse-agent GET /download/pulse-docker-agent - Deprecated, use pulse-agent --enable-docker

Submit Reports

POST /api/agents/host/report - Host metrics POST /api/agents/docker/report - Docker container metrics POST /api/agents/kubernetes/report - Kubernetes cluster metrics

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Note

: This is a summary of the most common endpoints. For a complete list, inspect the network traffic of the Pulse dashboard or check the source code in internal/api/router.go.