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This document is linked from Settings, API Access, Agent integrations, so its reader is somebody trying to connect an MCP client to their own instance. It was written as a note to the maintainer, opening by describing what landed on a branch and offering itself as a reminder in three weeks. Rewritten for that reader. The endpoint reference, error codes and adapter details are unchanged in substance, since an integrator needs all of them. What changed is who the prose is addressed to. Three things were cut rather than reworded because they were about building Pulse rather than using it. The Provable claims section listed test function names, referenced numbered work slices, and recounted that discovery used to return 401 before a fix. The guarantees underneath were worth keeping, so they are stated as guarantees now, that the manifest matches the implementation, that discovery needs no token, that error codes come in two layers, and that the surfaces are exercised together. The test names that enforce them are not the reader's concern. Where to read more pointed at internal subsystem contracts under docs/release-control, which are deliberately not shipped, and at Go and TSX source paths. It now points at Configuration, API and AI, which are all shipped and all resolve in the viewer. The roadmap sentence about the next work item being whatever friction first usage surfaces became an invitation to open an issue. The Gatekeeper warning stayed, because that one is something a reader actually hits. Title is now Pulse agent integrations, matching the panel the reader arrives from, rather than substrate, which is not a word they saw. Contract-Neutral: documentation rewrite, no contract delta
📚 Pulse Documentation
Welcome to the Pulse documentation portal. Here you'll find everything you need to install, configure, and master Pulse.
🚀 Getting Started
- Localized getting started: Deutsch • Español. These first-wave pages cover the public install path and preserve commands, config keys, image names, activation keys, and product identifiers exactly.
- 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
- Docker Guide – Advanced Docker & Compose configurations.
- Kubernetes – Helm charts, ingress, and HA setups.
- Reverse Proxy – Nginx, Caddy, Traefik, and Cloudflare Tunnel recipes.
- Troubleshooting – Deep dive into common issues and logs.
🔐 Security
- Security Policy – The core security model (Encryption, Auth, API Scopes).
- Privacy – What leaves your network (and what doesn’t).
- 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 Modes & Safety – Configure Patrol mode, 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
- Unified Resource Model – How all platforms merge into one model with task-based navigation.
- Unified Navigation Migration – Upgrading from platform-specific tabs to v6 navigation.
- TrueNAS Integration – First-class TrueNAS SCALE/CORE monitoring (pools, datasets, disks, snapshots, replication).
- Relay / Pulse Mobile Handoff – End-to-end encrypted relay for supported Pulse Mobile clients (Relay and above).
- Recovery Central – Unified backup, snapshot, and replication view across all providers.
- Pulse Cloud (Hosted) – Fully managed hosting with automatic updates and backups.
- Pulse Intelligence – Pulse Assistant, Patrol findings, alert analysis, governed actions, and forecasts.
- Metrics History – Persistent metrics storage with configurable retention.
- Mail Gateway – Proxmox Mail Gateway (PMG) monitoring.
- Auto Updates – One-click updates for supported deployments.
- Multi-Tenant Organizations – Isolate infrastructure by organization (Enterprise, opt-in).
- Pulse for MSPs – Provider operations guide: per-client isolation, split ingress, alert routing, branded reports.
- Entitlements Overhaul – Capability-key-based feature gating across Community/Relay/Pro/Cloud, with legacy Pro+ continuity still supported.
💳 Plans (Community / Relay / Pro / Cloud)
Pulse is available in three self-hosted tiers plus hosted Cloud:
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Community: Free self-hosted monitoring with core monitoring included and 7-day history.
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Relay: Adds secure remote access to the Pulse web UI, Pulse Mobile pairing for handoff, push notifications, and 14-day history.
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Pro: Adds hands-on Patrol modes, issue investigation, governed fixes, verified outcomes, operations tooling, governance features, and 90-day history.
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Cloud: Hosted Pulse with Pro-level capabilities; hosted pricing is unchanged by the self-hosted model lock.
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Plans and entitlements (includes the Community/Relay/Pro/Cloud matrix)
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Multi-Tenant Organizations (Enterprise) — Isolate infrastructure by organization for MSPs and multi-datacenter deployments.
📡 Monitoring & Agents
- Unified Agent – Single binary for host, Docker, and Kubernetes monitoring.
- Centralized Agent Management (Pro/Cloud) – Agent profiles and remote config.
- Proxmox Backup Server – PBS integration, direct API vs PVE passthrough, token setup.
- TrueNAS – TrueNAS SCALE/CORE integration.
- ZFS Monitoring – Proxmox-native ZFS pool monitoring.
- Storage Architecture – Proposed canonical storage, disk, S.M.A.R.T., and topology model for making storage genuinely operator-useful.
- VM Disk Monitoring – Enabling QEMU Guest Agent for disk stats.
- Temperature Monitoring – Agent-based temperature monitoring (
pulse-agent --enable-proxmox). Sensor proxy has been removed. - Webhooks – Custom notification payloads.
💻 Development
- API Reference – Complete REST API documentation.
- Architecture – System design and component interaction.
- Contributing – How to contribute to Pulse.
- AI-Assisted Development – How AI tools are used to build and maintain Pulse, and where their output is labelled.
📁 Previous Versions
- Upgrade to v5 – Upgrade guidance for v4 → v5 migrations.
- v6 Release Promotion Policy – Canonical stable-vs-prerelease promotion rules and rollback expectations.
- v6 Prerelease Runbook – Internal release operations used during the v6 prerelease period.
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