Real-time monitoring for Proxmox, Docker, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Pulse is a modern, unified dashboard for monitoring your infrastructure across Proxmox, Docker, and Kubernetes. It consolidates metrics, alerts, and AI-powered insights from all your systems into a single, beautiful interface.
Designed for homelabs, sysadmins, and MSPs who need a "single pane of glass" without the complexity of enterprise monitoring stacks.
- Unified Monitoring: View health and metrics for PVE, PBS, PMG, Docker, and Kubernetes in one place
- Smart Alerts: Get notified via Discord, Slack, Telegram, Email, and more
- Auto-Discovery: Automatically finds Proxmox nodes on your network
- Metrics History: Persistent storage with configurable retention
- Backup Explorer: Visualize backup jobs and storage usage
- Chat Assistant: Ask questions about your infrastructure in natural language
- Patrol: Background health checks that generate findings on a schedule
- Alert Analysis: Optional AI analysis when alerts fire
- Cost Tracking: Track usage and costs per provider/model
- Proxmox VE/PBS/PMG: Full monitoring and management
- Kubernetes: Complete K8s cluster monitoring via agents
- Docker/Podman: Container and Swarm service monitoring
- OCI Containers: Proxmox 9.1+ native container support
- Secure by Design: Credentials encrypted at rest, strict API scoping
- One-Click Updates: Easy upgrades for supported deployments
- OIDC/SSO: Enterprise authentication support
- Privacy Focused: No telemetry, all data stays on your server
Run this one-liner on your Proxmox host to create a lightweight LXC container:
curl -fsSL https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bashNote: this installs the Pulse server. Agent installs use the command generated in Settings → Agents → Installation commands (served from /install.sh on your Pulse server).
docker run -d \
--name pulse \
-p 7655:7655 \
-v pulse_data:/data \
--restart unless-stopped \
rcourtman/pulse:latestAccess the dashboard at http://<your-ip>:7655.
- Installation Guide: Detailed instructions for Docker, Kubernetes, and bare metal.
- Configuration: Setup authentication, notifications, and advanced settings.
- Security: Learn about Pulse's security model and best practices.
- API Reference: Integrate Pulse with your own tools.
- Architecture: High-level system design and data flow.
- Troubleshooting: Solutions to common issues.
- Agent Security: Details on checksum-verified updates and verification.
- Docker Monitoring: Setup and management of Docker agents.
Community-maintained integrations and addons:
- Home Assistant Addons - Run Pulse Agent and Pulse Server as Home Assistant addons.
Pulse Pro unlocks LLM-backed AI Patrol — automated background monitoring that catches issues before they become outages.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time dashboard | ✅ | ✅ |
| Threshold alerts | ✅ | ✅ |
| AI Chat (BYOK) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Heuristic Patrol (local rules) | ✅ | ✅ |
| LLM-backed AI Patrol | — | ✅ |
| Alert-triggered AI analysis | — | ✅ |
| Kubernetes AI analysis | — | ✅ |
| Auto-fix + autonomous mode | — | ✅ |
| Centralized agent profiles | — | ✅ |
| Priority support | — | ✅ |
AI Patrol runs on your schedule (every 10 minutes to every 7 days, default 6 hours) and finds:
- ZFS pools approaching capacity
- Backup jobs that silently failed
- VMs stuck in restart loops
- Clock drift across cluster nodes
- Container health check failures
Technical highlights:
- Cross-system context (nodes, VMs, backups, containers, and metrics history)
- LLM analysis for high-impact findings + alert-triggered deep dives
- Optional auto-fix with command safety policies and audit trail
- Centralized agent profiles for consistent fleet settings
Try the live demo → or learn more at pulserelay.pro
Pulse Pro technical details: docs/PULSE_PRO.md
Pulse is maintained by one person. Sponsorships help cover the costs of the demo server, development tools, and domains. If Pulse saves you time, please consider supporting the project!
MIT © Richard Courtman. Use of Pulse Pro is subject to the Terms of Service.