diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalMonitoringSection.tsx b/frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalMonitoringSection.tsx
index cbf6f4406..e2dde8bbc 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalMonitoringSection.tsx
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalMonitoringSection.tsx
@@ -59,6 +59,81 @@ export const NodeModalMonitoringSection: Component<NodeModalMonitoringSectionPro
       </div>
 
       <Show when={modalProps.nodeType === 'pve'}>
+        <div class="space-y-3">
+          <SectionHeader
+            title="Data collection"
+            size="sm"
+            class="mb-1"
+            titleClass="text-base-content"
+          />
+          <p class="text-xs text-muted">
+            Control which Proxmox VE resources Pulse ingests. Disable individual collectors to
+            reduce API load or trim dashboard noise.
+          </p>
+
+          <label class="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm text-base-content">
+            <input
+              type="checkbox"
+              checked={state.formData().monitorVMs}
+              onChange={(event) => state.updateField('monitorVMs', event.currentTarget.checked)}
+              class={formCheckbox + ' mt-0.5'}
+            />
+            <div>
+              <div>Virtual machines</div>
+              <p class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">
+                QEMU guest state, resource usage, and per-VM metrics.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+          </label>
+
+          <label class="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm text-base-content">
+            <input
+              type="checkbox"
+              checked={state.formData().monitorContainers}
+              onChange={(event) =>
+                state.updateField('monitorContainers', event.currentTarget.checked)
+              }
+              class={formCheckbox + ' mt-0.5'}
+            />
+            <div>
+              <div>Containers</div>
+              <p class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">
+                LXC container state and resource usage.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+          </label>
+
+          <label class="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm text-base-content">
+            <input
+              type="checkbox"
+              checked={state.formData().monitorStorage}
+              onChange={(event) => state.updateField('monitorStorage', event.currentTarget.checked)}
+              class={formCheckbox + ' mt-0.5'}
+            />
+            <div>
+              <div>Storage</div>
+              <p class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">
+                Per-storage capacity, status, and content type breakdown.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+          </label>
+
+          <label class="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm text-base-content">
+            <input
+              type="checkbox"
+              checked={state.formData().monitorBackups}
+              onChange={(event) => state.updateField('monitorBackups', event.currentTarget.checked)}
+              class={formCheckbox + ' mt-0.5'}
+            />
+            <div>
+              <div>Backups</div>
+              <p class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">
+                vzdump schedules and recent backup activity.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+          </label>
+        </div>
+
         <div class="space-y-4">
           <SectionHeader
             title="Advanced monitoring"
@@ -150,6 +225,106 @@ export const NodeModalMonitoringSection: Component<NodeModalMonitoringSectionPro
         </div>
       </Show>
 
+      <Show when={modalProps.nodeType === 'pbs'}>
+        <div class="space-y-3">
+          <SectionHeader
+            title="Data collection"
+            size="sm"
+            class="mb-1"
+            titleClass="text-base-content"
+          />
+          <p class="text-xs text-muted">
+            Control which Proxmox Backup Server surfaces Pulse ingests. Disable collectors you
+            don't need.
+          </p>
+
+          <label class="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm text-base-content">
+            <input
+              type="checkbox"
+              checked={state.formData().monitorDatastores}
+              onChange={(event) =>
+                state.updateField('monitorDatastores', event.currentTarget.checked)
+              }
+              class={formCheckbox + ' mt-0.5'}
+            />
+            <div>
+              <div>Datastores</div>
+              <p class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">
+                Datastore capacity, usage, and deduplication status.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+          </label>
+
+          <label class="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm text-base-content">
+            <input
+              type="checkbox"
+              checked={state.formData().monitorSyncJobs}
+              onChange={(event) =>
+                state.updateField('monitorSyncJobs', event.currentTarget.checked)
+              }
+              class={formCheckbox + ' mt-0.5'}
+            />
+            <div>
+              <div>Sync jobs</div>
+              <p class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">
+                Remote sync schedules and their last-run state.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+          </label>
+
+          <label class="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm text-base-content">
+            <input
+              type="checkbox"
+              checked={state.formData().monitorVerifyJobs}
+              onChange={(event) =>
+                state.updateField('monitorVerifyJobs', event.currentTarget.checked)
+              }
+              class={formCheckbox + ' mt-0.5'}
+            />
+            <div>
+              <div>Verify jobs</div>
+              <p class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">
+                Backup verification schedules and outcomes.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+          </label>
+
+          <label class="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm text-base-content">
+            <input
+              type="checkbox"
+              checked={state.formData().monitorPruneJobs}
+              onChange={(event) =>
+                state.updateField('monitorPruneJobs', event.currentTarget.checked)
+              }
+              class={formCheckbox + ' mt-0.5'}
+            />
+            <div>
+              <div>Prune jobs</div>
+              <p class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">
+                Retention policy runs and the snapshots they remove.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+          </label>
+
+          <label class="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm text-base-content">
+            <input
+              type="checkbox"
+              checked={state.formData().monitorGarbageJobs}
+              onChange={(event) =>
+                state.updateField('monitorGarbageJobs', event.currentTarget.checked)
+              }
+              class={formCheckbox + ' mt-0.5'}
+            />
+            <div>
+              <div>Garbage collection</div>
+              <p class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">
+                GC runs that reclaim orphaned chunks from the datastore.
+              </p>
+            </div>
+          </label>
+        </div>
+      </Show>
+
       <Show when={modalProps.nodeType === 'pmg'}>
         <div class="space-y-3">
           <SectionHeader
diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useNodeModalState.ts b/frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useNodeModalState.ts
index 527429696..1ec9952b6 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useNodeModalState.ts
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useNodeModalState.ts
@@ -276,6 +276,27 @@ export const useNodeModalState = (props: NodeModalProps) => {
       username = parts[0];
     }
 
+    const pveConfig =
+      node.type === 'pve'
+        ? (node as NodeConfig & {
+            monitorVMs?: boolean;
+            monitorContainers?: boolean;
+            monitorStorage?: boolean;
+            monitorBackups?: boolean;
+          })
+        : undefined;
+
+    const pbsConfig =
+      node.type === 'pbs'
+        ? (node as NodeConfig & {
+            monitorDatastores?: boolean;
+            monitorSyncJobs?: boolean;
+            monitorVerifyJobs?: boolean;
+            monitorPruneJobs?: boolean;
+            monitorGarbageJobs?: boolean;
+          })
+        : undefined;
+
     const pmgConfig =
       node.type === 'pmg'
         ? (node as NodeConfig & {
@@ -298,6 +319,10 @@ export const useNodeModalState = (props: NodeModalProps) => {
       tokenValue: '',
       fingerprint: ('fingerprint' in node ? node.fingerprint : '') || '',
       verifySSL: node.verifySSL ?? true,
+      monitorVMs: pveConfig?.monitorVMs ?? true,
+      monitorContainers: pveConfig?.monitorContainers ?? true,
+      monitorStorage: pveConfig?.monitorStorage ?? true,
+      monitorBackups: pveConfig?.monitorBackups ?? true,
       monitorPhysicalDisks:
         node.type === 'pve'
           ? ((node as NodeConfig & { monitorPhysicalDisks?: boolean }).monitorPhysicalDisks ?? true)
@@ -307,6 +332,11 @@ export const useNodeModalState = (props: NodeModalProps) => {
           ? ((node as NodeConfig & { physicalDiskPollingMinutes?: number })
               .physicalDiskPollingMinutes ?? 5)
           : 5,
+      monitorDatastores: pbsConfig?.monitorDatastores ?? true,
+      monitorSyncJobs: pbsConfig?.monitorSyncJobs ?? true,
+      monitorVerifyJobs: pbsConfig?.monitorVerifyJobs ?? true,
+      monitorPruneJobs: pbsConfig?.monitorPruneJobs ?? true,
+      monitorGarbageJobs: pbsConfig?.monitorGarbageJobs ?? true,
       monitorMailStats: pmgConfig?.monitorMailStats ?? true,
       monitorQueues: pmgConfig?.monitorQueues ?? true,
       monitorQuarantine: pmgConfig?.monitorQuarantine ?? true,
diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/utils/__tests__/nodeModalPresentation.test.ts b/frontend-modern/src/utils/__tests__/nodeModalPresentation.test.ts
index 8a4321afa..b08ee4d99 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/utils/__tests__/nodeModalPresentation.test.ts
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/utils/__tests__/nodeModalPresentation.test.ts
@@ -97,6 +97,40 @@ describe('nodeModalPresentation', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it('propagates per-surface scope toggles through the pve payload', () => {
+    const form = {
+      ...getNodeModalDefaultFormData('pve'),
+      monitorVMs: false,
+      monitorContainers: true,
+      monitorStorage: false,
+      monitorBackups: true,
+    };
+    expect(buildNodeModalMonitoringPayload('pve', form)).toMatchObject({
+      monitorVMs: false,
+      monitorContainers: true,
+      monitorStorage: false,
+      monitorBackups: true,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('propagates per-surface scope toggles through the pbs payload', () => {
+    const form = {
+      ...getNodeModalDefaultFormData('pbs'),
+      monitorDatastores: true,
+      monitorSyncJobs: false,
+      monitorVerifyJobs: true,
+      monitorPruneJobs: false,
+      monitorGarbageJobs: false,
+    };
+    expect(buildNodeModalMonitoringPayload('pbs', form)).toMatchObject({
+      monitorDatastores: true,
+      monitorSyncJobs: false,
+      monitorVerifyJobs: true,
+      monitorPruneJobs: false,
+      monitorGarbageJobs: false,
+    });
+  });
+
   it('returns canonical node test result presentation', () => {
     expect(getNodeModalTestResultPresentation('success')).toMatchObject({
       icon: 'success',
diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/utils/nodeModalPresentation.ts b/frontend-modern/src/utils/nodeModalPresentation.ts
index 16701f201..fdda0fe29 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/utils/nodeModalPresentation.ts
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/utils/nodeModalPresentation.ts
@@ -18,8 +18,17 @@ export interface NodeModalFormData {
   tokenValue: string;
   fingerprint: string;
   verifySSL: boolean;
+  monitorVMs: boolean;
+  monitorContainers: boolean;
+  monitorStorage: boolean;
+  monitorBackups: boolean;
   monitorPhysicalDisks: boolean;
   physicalDiskPollingMinutes: number;
+  monitorDatastores: boolean;
+  monitorSyncJobs: boolean;
+  monitorVerifyJobs: boolean;
+  monitorPruneJobs: boolean;
+  monitorGarbageJobs: boolean;
   monitorMailStats: boolean;
   monitorQueues: boolean;
   monitorQuarantine: boolean;
@@ -47,8 +56,17 @@ export function getNodeModalDefaultFormData(
     tokenValue: '',
     fingerprint: '',
     verifySSL: true,
+    monitorVMs: true,
+    monitorContainers: true,
+    monitorStorage: true,
+    monitorBackups: true,
     monitorPhysicalDisks: false,
     physicalDiskPollingMinutes: 5,
+    monitorDatastores: true,
+    monitorSyncJobs: true,
+    monitorVerifyJobs: true,
+    monitorPruneJobs: true,
+    monitorGarbageJobs: true,
     monitorMailStats: true,
     monitorQueues: true,
     monitorQuarantine: true,
@@ -150,20 +168,20 @@ export function buildNodeModalMonitoringPayload(
   switch (nodeType) {
     case 'pve':
       return {
-        monitorVMs: true,
-        monitorContainers: true,
-        monitorStorage: true,
-        monitorBackups: true,
+        monitorVMs: formData.monitorVMs,
+        monitorContainers: formData.monitorContainers,
+        monitorStorage: formData.monitorStorage,
+        monitorBackups: formData.monitorBackups,
         monitorPhysicalDisks: formData.monitorPhysicalDisks,
         physicalDiskPollingMinutes: formData.physicalDiskPollingMinutes,
       };
     case 'pbs':
       return {
-        monitorDatastores: true,
-        monitorSyncJobs: true,
-        monitorVerifyJobs: true,
-        monitorPruneJobs: true,
-        monitorGarbageJobs: true,
+        monitorDatastores: formData.monitorDatastores,
+        monitorSyncJobs: formData.monitorSyncJobs,
+        monitorVerifyJobs: formData.monitorVerifyJobs,
+        monitorPruneJobs: formData.monitorPruneJobs,
+        monitorGarbageJobs: formData.monitorGarbageJobs,
       };
     case 'pmg':
       return {