Monitoring for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS, and vSphere that watches your infrastructure so you don't have to.
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> **Pulse v6 is out.** A rebuilt unified workspace with TrueNAS and vSphere
> support and a dedicated page for every platform. Upgrading from v5? See the
> [v6 upgrade guide](docs/UPGRADE_v6.md).
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Issue-first contribution policy: please open an issue or discussion before
investing time in a code change. External pull requests are not part of the
normal contribution flow for this repository. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
## 🚀 Overview
Dashboards show you what's happening when you look. Most infrastructure problems start while you're not looking: the backup job that has quietly failed three runs in a row, the ZFS pool creeping toward full, the VM stuck in a restart loop. Pulse is built for that gap.
Pulse monitors your Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS, and vSphere estate in one workspace and alerts you the moment something breaks. Beyond alerts, **Pulse Patrol** does an engineer's rounds on a schedule, finds the problems nobody configured a rule for, and explains what they mean. On Pro, Patrol also investigates issues and applies safe, policy-bound fixes with verification and an audit trail.
Designed for homelabs, sysadmins, internal IT teams, and providers who want serious monitoring without running an enterprise monitoring stack. MSP access is a separate, request-assisted provider path and is not part of ordinary self-hosted setup.
## ✨ Features
### Watching, Not Just Showing
- **Pulse Patrol**: Scheduled background health checks (every 10 minutes to every 7 days) that catch silent failures: failed backup jobs, pools approaching capacity, restart-looping VMs, clock drift, failing container health checks. Runs on every tier; community installs use your own AI provider or a local model.
- **Investigation and Safe Fixes (Pro / hosted Cloud)**: Alert-triggered root-cause investigation, plus optional remediation under command safety policies with verification and an audit trail
- **Chat Assistant (BYOK)**: Ask questions about your infrastructure in natural language
- **Cost Tracking**: Track usage and costs per provider/model
### Core Monitoring
- **Unified Monitoring**: View health and metrics for PVE, PBS, PMG, Docker, Kubernetes, and TrueNAS in one place
- **Smart Alerts**: Adaptive, hysteresis-based thresholds that cut flapping noise, delivered via Discord, Slack, Telegram, Email, and more
- **Auto-Discovery**: Automatically finds Proxmox nodes on your network
- **Metrics History**: Persistent storage with configurable retention
- **Recovery Views**: Backup, snapshot, and replication history for each platform (PBS, ZFS/TrueNAS, vSphere)
### Multi-Platform
- **Proxmox VE/PBS/PMG**: Full monitoring and management
- **TrueNAS**: Pools, datasets, disks, ZFS snapshots, replication tasks, and alerts
- **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, agent commands disabled by default
- **One-Click Updates**: Easy upgrades for supported deployments
- **OIDC/SSO/SAML**: Single sign-on with multi-provider support
- **Mobile Remote Access**: Relay protocol with end-to-end encryption for supported Pulse Mobile clients (Relay and above)
- **Privacy Focused**: Outbound usage telemetry is enabled by default and [fully documented](docs/PRIVACY.md) — the payload uses a rotating pseudonymous install ID and does not include hostnames, credentials, names, email addresses, IP addresses, or infrastructure identifiers. Disable any time in Settings or via `PULSE_TELEMETRY=false`.
## 🧭 A Page for Every Platform
Patrol and alerts can only reason across your estate because Pulse sees all
of it in one resource model. The UI keeps the platform-shaped views operators
already know:
- **Proxmox** (PVE, PBS, and PMG), **Docker**, **Kubernetes**, **TrueNAS**,
**vSphere**, and **standalone machines** each get their own page
- Storage and Recovery (backups, snapshots, replication) surface on the
platform pages they belong to
- **Alerts** and **Patrol** are top-level views across every platform
Power-user shortcuts:
- `g p` → Proxmox, `g d` → Docker, `g k` → Kubernetes, `g n` → TrueNAS, `g v` → vSphere, `g s` → standalone machines
- `g a` → Alerts, `g r` → Patrol, `g t` → Settings
- `/` → search, `Cmd/Ctrl+K` → command palette, `?` → shortcuts help
## ⚡ Quick Start
> **Paid Pulse Pro / Relay / legacy customers:** GitHub release assets and the
> public `rcourtman/pulse` Docker image are community builds. Activate your
> license key under **Settings → Plans → Existing purchases** to unlock Pro
> features. These community builds do not include the private Pulse Pro runtime hooks
> (Audit Log, Audit Webhooks, RBAC, governed remediation). For those, use
>