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Follow-up to #2620, which documented both conflations below as residuals. ## Problem Two Docker alert producers wrote names into identity slots: - A container reported without an ID alerted under its Docker host's own reference, `docker:<host>`. Its alerts showed on the host, joined the host's resource history (which #2620 binds to the host), were never cleared when the container left the report (cleanup matches `docker:<host>/`), and Patrol registered `docker:<host>` on both the host and the container, so the host's scope alias was ambiguous. - A Swarm service without an ID put its normalized name in the `/service/<ID>` slot, so a name equal to another service's Swarm ID shared that service's alerts and history. #2620's resolver had to treat every service in such a cluster as a conflict. Pulse's own agent always sends Docker and Swarm IDs, so this needs a malformed or third-party report. The registry still shows those containers and services. ## Change - `internal/alerts`: `DockerHostResourceID`, `DockerContainerResourceID(host, id, name)` and `DockerServiceResourceID` are the only builders. An ID-less container alerts under `docker:<host>/name:<name>` and an ID-less service under `docker:<host>/service/name:<normalized name>`. Docker and Swarm IDs never contain a colon, so neither can equal a host or ID reference. One with neither an ID nor a name raises no alert. - The container and service policy switches classify by the first path segment after the host, so a container name containing `/service/` stays a container. - Report cleanup, host removal and the host's offline alert also clear a pre-upgrade container alert left on exactly `docker:<host>` (recorded host must match, container ID empty). A pending image update recorded there keeps its age when the first report still shows it pending. - Canonical state IDs were split at the first `::`, but colliding Docker hosts get IDs like `<base>::<suffix>`. Every container alert of such a host was rewritten to `docker:<base>`, the other host's reference: it joined that host's history and missed its own host's cleanup. `splitCanonicalStateID` now splits before the alert's recorded spec ID, else after its resource ID, so alerts saved the old way also recover on restore. - Patrol registers the same builders' output as scope aliases, with the container's name. - History: a service slot containing `:` is a name reference (never binds, never retried), and the cluster-wide conflict for ID-less services is gone. A real service ID reference now binds even when its cluster also has an ID-less service. - Contract notes in alerts, ai-runtime, monitoring and unified-resources. Remaining legacy boundary (in the unified-resources contract): rows journaled before this change keep their old reference. An ID-less container's old rows stay in its host's history, and an ID-less service's old rows bind only to a service whose ID equals its normalized name. ## Proof - `TestDockerAlertsWithoutIDsUseTheirOwnReferences` (real `CheckDockerHost`: fired and active references, removal cleanup, pre-upgrade leftover on report and offline, config-save container/service switches). - `TestDockerHostIDWithSeparatorKeepsItsAlertReferences`, `TestDockerAlertsRestoredWithCutShortReferencesRecover` (writes `active-alerts.json`, restores through `LoadActiveAlerts`) and `TestDockerContainerWithoutIDKeepsPendingUpdateAgeAcrossUpgrade`. - `TestOwnerAlertTimelinesUseCanonicalHistoryIdentity`: real producers into the SQLite history. The ID-less container and the service named like `web`'s Swarm ID stay out of the host's and `web`'s histories. - `TestResolvePatrolScopeResolvesDockerAlertResourceIDs`: the host's alias stays unambiguous, and the ID-less container's name reference resolves to the container in the unified read state. - `TestHistoryIdentityMonitorAdapterResolvesDockerHostAndServiceReferences`: the ID reference binds before and after the service leaves inventory, and name references never bind or retry. - Mutation check: putting back each old behavior fails at least one of these tests. Covered: host fallback, unmarked service name, no skip for unidentifiable containers or services, each legacy clause and its host check, the update-age carry-over, first-`::` splitting with and without the spec rule, substring classification, the Patrol alias without the name, and the resolver accepting a `name:` slot.
Pulse documentation
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Start here
- Install Pulse — signed Proxmox/Linux installation, Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and first-run setup.
- Production deployment and security — least-privilege Proxmox setup, root-agent boundaries, discovery, supply-chain verification, plan limits, scale evidence, and a rollout checklist.
- Upgrade from Pulse v5 — migration prerequisites, rollback, agent continuity, and post-upgrade checks.
- Releases and update channels: choosing Stable or Preview, beta and RC expectations, and how releases are tested and promoted.
- Configure Pulse — authentication, notifications, discovery, retention, and system settings.
- Deployment models — data locations, lifecycle, and differences between supported deployment paths.
- Troubleshooting and FAQ — common failures, diagnostics, and operator questions.
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Platforms and agents
- Proxmox Backup Server
- Proxmox Mail Gateway
- Docker and Podman
- Kubernetes and Helm
- TrueNAS SCALE and CORE
- Unified Agent
- Agent security
- VM disk monitoring
- ZFS monitoring
- Temperature monitoring
VMware vSphere support is early access. Current builds expose dedicated vSphere inventory and recovery context, but operators should validate the integration against their own vCenter before production use.
Monitoring and operations
- Metrics history
- Recovery data
- Webhooks
- Automatic updates
- Centralized agent management (Pro)
- Operational trust model
- Current product screenshots
Pulse Intelligence
- Assistant, Patrol, and external-agent overview
- Patrol modes and safety
- Assistant safety model
- External agent HTTP and MCP substrate
Patrol watch-only analysis is available on Community with a local model or the operator's own provider. Investigation and governed fixes require the relevant Pulse Pro capabilities.
Security, privacy, and access
- Production deployment and security
- Security review scope
- Authentication and credential storage review packet
- Security guide
- Privacy and telemetry disclosure
- OIDC and SSO
- Proxy authentication
- Role-based access control (Pro)
- Audit logging (Pro)
- Reverse proxy configuration
- Code-signing policy
Plans and managed access
- Community, Relay, and Pro capabilities
- Relay and Pulse Mobile handoff
- Multi-tenant organizations (Enterprise/custom)
- Provider-hosted MSP operations (request-assisted)
Pulse Cloud is not generally available. Ordinary self-hosted Pulse remains the primary installation path; MSP and Enterprise access are explicit commercial paths rather than defaults in self-hosted setup.
Development and reference
Detailed design notes and dated migration specifications may remain in this directory for maintainers, but they are not operator setup guides unless they are linked from the sections above.
Previous versions and migrations
- Upgrade from v4 to v5
- Retired unified-navigation migration — historical context only; current Pulse uses platform-shaped navigation.
- Move a Pulse installation
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