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rcourtman 23ea4e4872 Surface vSphere VM uptime and guest disk usage
The vSphere adapter's InventoryMetrics struct only carried
throughput / utilisation metrics. Uptime and guest filesystem
usage weren't piped through at all, so the workloads table
rendered "0s" and empty cells for every vSphere VM.

Backend (internal/vmware):
- InventoryMetrics gains UptimeSeconds plus DiskUsedBytes /
  DiskTotalBytes / DiskPercent. Documented in the struct comment
  with the API sources they come from.
- PerformanceManager counter catalog adds sys.uptime.latest for
  hosts and VMs and sys.osUptime.latest for VMs. The mapping
  prefers guest OS uptime when present (Tools-reported) and falls
  back to VMX-process uptime. Counters verified against vSphere 8
  developer documentation.
- New per-VM REST collector calls
  GET /api/vcenter/vm/{vm}/guest/local-filesystem and aggregates
  per-mount capacity / free_space into DiskTotal / DiskUsed /
  DiskPercent. A 503 from vCenter (Tools not reporting) is
  classified as a non-fatal enrichment issue and the row stays
  blank rather than failing the collection.
- enrichInventorySnapshot now takes automationSessionID so the
  signals path can hit the REST endpoint alongside the VI/JSON
  PerformanceManager queries.
- Resource projection layer wires UptimeSeconds onto
  Resource.Uptime for hosts and VMs and the disk fields onto
  metrics.disk; cloneInventoryMetrics tracks the new pointers.

Mock (internal/mock):
- refreshVMwareInventoryMetrics synthesizes plausible per-resource
  uptime (1h - 30d base, climbing forward with snapshot time) and,
  for VMs only, a stable guest filesystem total (32-256 GiB) with
  naturally-oscillating used bytes via SampleMetric. Powered-off
  VMs drop the new pointers so the frontend renders "-" rather
  than zero, matching how the canonical "no data" signal already
  works for offline guests.

Frontend (useWorkloads.ts):
- The WorkloadGuest uptime fallback chain now lands on the
  canonical resource.uptime field. vSphere doesn't populate a
  platform-specific carve-out (only the canonical field), so the
  earlier proxmox/agent/docker/kubernetes-only chain was silently
  dropping vSphere uptime.

Contracts:
- monitoring.md documents the new InventoryMetrics fields, their
  vSphere collection sources, and the mock-fixture expectation.
- performance-and-scalability.md adds the canonical
  resource.uptime fallback rule to the workload mapping section.

Proofs:
- internal/mock/platform_fixtures_test.go asserts that powered-on
  vSphere VMs surface uptime + guest disk fields and powered-off
  VMs drop them.
- frontend-modern/src/hooks/__tests__/useWorkloads.test.ts adds a
  vSphere uptime fallback case.
- Existing vmware client test
  (TestClientCollectInventoryPreservesBaseInventoryWhenOptionalEnrichmentDegrades)
  teaches the mock vCenter to serve the new endpoint and updates
  the assertions to match the additional non-fatal issue surfaced
  when the unavailableVMGuestInfo knob also degrades the
  filesystem read.
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📚 Pulse Documentation

Welcome to the Pulse documentation portal. Here you'll find everything you need to install, configure, and master Pulse.


v6 Execution Canonical Source

For Pulse v6 build/release execution work, do not start from this broad docs index. Use:

  1. docs/release-control/v6/internal/SOURCE_OF_TRUTH.md for stable human governance and locked decisions
  2. docs/release-control/v6/internal/status.json for live lane state, lane-to-subsystem ownership, structured evidence references, typed lane/subsystem decision records, and canonical ordered lists
  3. docs/release-control/v6/status.schema.json for the machine-readable status contract
  4. docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/registry.json and docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/registry.schema.json for subsystem ownership, explicit shared-ownership exceptions, and proof-routing rules
  5. python3 scripts/release_control/status_audit.py --check if you need a machine-derived evidence health audit
  6. python3 scripts/release_control/registry_audit.py --check if you need a machine-derived subsystem registry audit
  7. python3 scripts/release_control/contract_audit.py --check if you need a machine-derived subsystem contract audit, including explicit cross-subsystem dependency checks and exact registry-derived shared-boundary wording Local pre-commit runs the v6 machine audits against staged control-file content so partial staging cannot hide governance drift. Local pre-commit also blocks partial staging for hook-sensitive governance files under docs/release-control/v6/, scripts/release_control/, internal/repoctl/, .husky/pre-commit, and .github/workflows/canonical-governance.yml, because those checks still execute or structurally read the working-tree versions locally.
  8. python3 scripts/release_control/subsystem_lookup.py <path> [<path> ...] --pretty --lean if you need subsystem ownership, proof routing, exact contract-focus lines, and compact lane context for a change

For governed runtime changes, a staged subsystem contract only counts if its diff updates a substantive contract section such as Purpose, Canonical Files, Shared Boundaries, Extension Points, Forbidden Paths, Completion Obligations, or Current State, rather than metadata alone.

All other documents are supporting references unless explicitly required for evidence.


🚀 Getting Started

  • Installation Guide Step-by-step guides for Docker, Kubernetes, and bare metal.
  • Configuration
    Learn how to configure authentication, notifications (Email, Discord, etc.), and system settings.
  • Deployment Models
    Where config lives, how updates work, and what differs per deployment.
  • Migration Guide
    Moving to a new server? Here's how to export and import your data safely.
  • Upgrade to v6
    Practical upgrade guidance and post-upgrade checks for Pulse v6.
  • FAQ Common questions and quick answers.

🛠️ Deployment & Operations

🔐 Security

  • Security Policy The core security model (Encryption, Auth, API Scopes).
  • Privacy What leaves your network (and what doesnt).
  • OIDC / SSO OIDC Single Sign-On configuration (Authentik, Keycloak, Azure AD, etc.).
  • Proxy Auth Authentik/Authelia/Cloudflare proxy authentication configuration.
  • Agent Security Agent privilege model, Proxmox API-only choices, and self-update verification.

📖 Advanced Topics (Relay / Pro / legacy Pro+ / Cloud)

  • AI Autonomy & Safety Configure patrol autonomy levels, assistant control levels, investigation tuning, and safety guardrails.
  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Define custom roles, assign permissions, and integrate with OIDC group mapping.
  • Audit Logging Tamper-evident event logging for compliance, with query, export, and signature verification.

New in 6.0

💳 Plans (Community / Relay / Pro / Cloud)

Pulse is available in three self-hosted tiers plus hosted Cloud:

  • Community: Free self-hosted monitoring with core monitoring included and 7-day history.

  • Relay: Adds secure remote access to the Pulse web UI, Pulse Mobile pairing for handoff, push notifications, and 14-day history.

  • Pro: Adds alert-triggered root-cause analysis, safe remediation workflows, operations tooling, governance features, and 90-day history.

  • Cloud: Hosted Pulse with Pro-level capabilities; hosted pricing is unchanged by the self-hosted model lock.

  • Learn more at pulserelay.pro

  • Plans and entitlements (includes the Community/Relay/Pro/Cloud matrix)

  • AI deep dive

  • Multi-Tenant Organizations (Enterprise) — Isolate infrastructure by organization for MSPs and multi-datacenter deployments.

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