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The landing page announced v6 GA but the repo README (the highest-traffic owned surface, 6.1k stars) never did, and its platform list predated vSphere support. Adds a v6 callout linking the v5 upgrade guide.
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# Pulse
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<div align="center">
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<img src="docs/images/pulse-logo.svg" alt="Pulse Logo" width="120" />
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<p><strong>Real-time monitoring for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS, and vSphere infrastructure.</strong></p>
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[](https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse)
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[](https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/releases/latest)
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[](https://hub.docker.com/r/rcourtman/pulse)
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[](LICENSE)
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[Live Demo](https://demo.pulserelay.pro) • [Pulse Pro](https://pulserelay.pro) • [Documentation](docs/README.md) • [Report Bug](https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/issues)
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Localized getting started: [Deutsch](docs/i18n/de/README.md) • [Español](docs/i18n/es/README.md)
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</div>
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---
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> **Pulse v6 is out.** A rebuilt unified workspace with TrueNAS and vSphere
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> support and a dedicated page for every platform. Upgrading from v5? See the
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> [v6 upgrade guide](docs/UPGRADE_v6.md).
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---
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Issue-first contribution policy: please open an issue or discussion before
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investing time in a code change. External pull requests are not part of the
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normal contribution flow for this repository. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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## 🚀 Overview
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Pulse is a modern, unified monitoring workspace for your **infrastructure** across Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS, and vSphere. It consolidates metrics, alerts, and AI-powered insights from all your systems into a single, beautiful interface.
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Designed for homelabs, sysadmins, internal IT teams, and providers who need a clear monitoring view without the complexity of enterprise monitoring stacks. MSP access is a separate, request-assisted provider path and is not part of ordinary self-hosted setup.
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## 🧭 Unified Navigation
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Pulse now groups everything by task instead of data source:
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- **Infrastructure** for hosts and nodes
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- **Workloads** for VMs, containers, and Kubernetes pods
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- **Storage** and **Backups** as top-level views
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- PMG now routes into **Infrastructure** (source filter), and Kubernetes routes into **Workloads** (K8s filter)
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- Legacy URLs are no longer routed as compatibility aliases; use canonical v6 routes.
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Power-user shortcuts:
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- `g i` → Infrastructure, `g w` → Workloads, `?` → shortcuts help
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- `/` or `Cmd/Ctrl+K` → global search
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## ✨ Features
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### Core Monitoring
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- **Unified Monitoring**: View health and metrics for PVE, PBS, PMG, Docker, Kubernetes, and TrueNAS in one place
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- **Smart Alerts**: Get notified via Discord, Slack, Telegram, Email, and more
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- **Auto-Discovery**: Automatically finds Proxmox nodes on your network
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- **Metrics History**: Persistent storage with configurable retention
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- **Recovery Central**: Unified backup/snapshot/replication timeline across PBS and TrueNAS
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### AI-Powered
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- **Chat Assistant (BYOK)**: Ask questions about your infrastructure in natural language
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- **Patrol**: Background health checks that generate findings on a schedule. Community self-hosted installs can run Patrol with your own AI provider or a local model.
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- **Alert Analysis (Pro / hosted Cloud)**: Optional AI analysis when alerts fire
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- **Cost Tracking**: Track usage and costs per provider/model
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### Multi-Platform
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- **Proxmox VE/PBS/PMG**: Full monitoring and management
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- **TrueNAS**: Pools, datasets, disks, ZFS snapshots, replication tasks, and alerts
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- **Kubernetes**: Complete K8s cluster monitoring via agents
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- **Docker/Podman**: Container and Swarm service monitoring
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- **OCI Containers**: Proxmox 9.1+ native container support
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### Security & Operations
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- **Secure by Design**: Credentials encrypted at rest, strict API scoping, agent commands disabled by default
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- **One-Click Updates**: Easy upgrades for supported deployments
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- **OIDC/SSO/SAML**: Single sign-on with multi-provider support
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- **Mobile Remote Access**: Relay protocol with end-to-end encryption for supported Pulse Mobile clients (Relay and above)
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- **Privacy Focused**: Outbound usage telemetry is enabled by default and [fully documented](docs/PRIVACY.md) — the payload uses a rotating pseudonymous install ID and does not include hostnames, credentials, names, email addresses, IP addresses, or infrastructure identifiers. Disable any time in Settings or via `PULSE_TELEMETRY=false`.
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## ⚡ Quick Start
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> **Paid Pulse Pro / Relay / legacy customers:** GitHub release assets and the
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> public `rcourtman/pulse` Docker image are community builds. Activate your
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> license key under **Settings → Plans → Existing purchases** to unlock Pro
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> features. These community builds do not include the private Pulse Pro runtime hooks
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> (Audit Log, Audit Webhooks, RBAC, governed remediation). For those, use
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> <https://pulserelay.pro/download.html> with a **v6 activation key** (starts
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> with `ppk_live_`) to get the private Pulse Pro Docker image or Linux archive.
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> A v5 or legacy license key is not a `ppk_live_` activation key and will not
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> work on that page.
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### Option 1: Proxmox LXC (Recommended)
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Replace `vX.Y.Z` with the exact release tag you want, verify the signed installer, then run it on your Proxmox host:
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```bash
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export PULSE_VERSION=vX.Y.Z
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curl -fsSLO "https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/releases/download/${PULSE_VERSION}/install.sh"
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curl -fsSLO "https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/releases/download/${PULSE_VERSION}/install.sh.sshsig"
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ssh-keygen -Y verify \
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-f <(printf '%s\n' 'ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIMZd/DaH+BldzOkq1A8KVTcFk73nAyrE8aJOyf7i00jm pulse-installer') \
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-I pulse-installer \
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-n pulse-install \
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-s install.sh.sshsig < install.sh
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bash install.sh --version "${PULSE_VERSION}"
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rm -f install.sh install.sh.sshsig
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```
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Note: this installs the Pulse **server**. Agent installs and v5-to-v6 agent upgrades use the command generated in **Settings → Infrastructure → Install on a host** (served from `/install.sh` on your Pulse server).
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### Option 2: Docker
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```bash
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docker run -d \
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--name pulse \
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-p 7655:7655 \
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-v pulse_data:/data \
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--restart unless-stopped \
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rcourtman/pulse:vX.Y.Z
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```
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Open Pulse at `http://<your-ip>:7655`.
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## Local Development
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Use the managed dev runtime from the repo root:
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```bash
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npm run dev
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```
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Open `http://127.0.0.1:5173` in the browser. `5173` is the frontend dev shell,
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and it proxies `/api` and `/ws` to the backend on `7655`. `7655` is the backend
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dependency for API and websocket traffic, not the primary browser URL for local
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frontend development.
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The managed dev runtime resets its local login to `admin` / `adminadminadmin`
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on startup unless you override it with `HOT_DEV_AUTH_USER` and
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`HOT_DEV_AUTH_PASS`.
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Canonical local dev commands:
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- `npm run dev` — start the managed runtime and reclaim the canonical dev ports if an older unmanaged session is still using them
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- `npm run dev:lab` — start the managed runtime in lab-agent mode, with the frontend/backend exposed on the LAN and Proxmox LXC Docker inventory enabled for installed lab agents
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- `npm run dev:status` — show frontend shell health, proxied API health, direct backend health, and listener ownership
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- `npm run dev:status:lab` — show status using the same LAN-bound lab-agent defaults used by `dev:lab`
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- `npm run dev:verify` — run the managed browser proof pack against the live dev runtime, including runtime recovery, the Patrol blocked-runtime page contract, and the desktop Recovery layout guard while the launcher suppresses unrelated backend rebuild churn for the duration of the proof pack
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- `npm run dev:verify:lab` — run the managed proof pack after applying lab-agent runtime defaults
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- `npm run dev:logs` — tail the managed runtime log
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- `npm run dev:backend-restart` — bounce only the managed backend through the launcher contract
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- `npm run dev:stop` — stop the managed runtime
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- `npm run dev:foreground` — run the foreground hot-reload launcher intentionally if you need an attached shell
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- `npm run dev:foreground:lab` — run the foreground hot-reload launcher with lab-agent defaults for troubleshooting
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If `npm run dev:verify` passes, the managed dev shell, proxy path, backend
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health endpoint, browser recovery path, Patrol blocked-runtime page behavior,
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and Recovery desktop history-table layout are all aligned.
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## 📚 Documentation
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- **[Installation Guide](docs/INSTALL.md)**: Detailed instructions for Docker, Kubernetes, and bare metal.
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- **[Upgrade to v6](docs/UPGRADE_v6.md)**: Migration guide for upgrading from v5 to v6.
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- **[Configuration](docs/CONFIGURATION.md)**: Setup authentication, notifications, and advanced settings.
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- **[Security](SECURITY.md)**: Learn about Pulse's security model and best practices.
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- **[API Reference](docs/API.md)**: Integrate Pulse with your own tools.
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- **[Architecture](ARCHITECTURE.md)**: High-level system design and data flow.
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- **[AI Features](docs/AI.md)**: Pulse Assistant (Chat) and Pulse Patrol documentation.
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- **[Multi-Tenant](docs/MULTI_TENANT.md)**: Enterprise/internal multi-organization setup and configuration.
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- **[Troubleshooting](docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md)**: Solutions to common issues.
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- **[Agent Security](docs/AGENT_SECURITY.md)**: Agent privilege model, Proxmox API-only choices, and checksum/signature verification.
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- **[Docker Monitoring](docs/DOCKER.md)**: Setup and management of Docker agents.
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- **[Unified Navigation](docs/MIGRATION_UNIFIED_NAV.md)**: Guide to the new task-based navigation.
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## 🌐 Community Integrations
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Community-maintained integrations and addons:
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- **[Home Assistant Addons](https://github.com/Kosztyk/homeassistant-addons)** - Run Pulse Agent and Pulse Server as Home Assistant addons.
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## 💳 Plans (Community / Relay / Pro / Cloud)
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Pulse is full-featured for core monitoring in every self-hosted tier. Self-hosted
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pricing no longer sells more room for monitoring volume; paid value comes from
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convenience, history, AI operations, and advanced administration. Cloud remains
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the hosted Pulse path. MSP is request-assisted provider hosting, with one
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isolated Pulse runtime per client.
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Self-hosted tiers:
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| Plan | Price | Core monitoring | Metric history | Main value |
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| Community | Free | Included | 7 days | Full self-hosted monitoring |
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| Relay | $39/yr or $4.99/mo | Included | 14 days | Remote web access, mobile app pairing, and push notifications |
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| Pro | $79/yr or $8.99/mo | Included | 90 days | Hands-on Patrol modes, issue investigation, verified fixes, and operations tooling |
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Pulse still counts top-level monitored systems once no matter how they are
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collected. VMs, containers, pods, disks, backups, and other child resources
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under that system are included rather than counted separately, but that count is
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no longer the self-hosted paid gate.
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Community keeps Patrol available with your own provider or local model. Relay
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remains the convenience tier, and Pro is the paid operations tier.
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Runtime-aligned capability summary:
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| Capability | Community | Relay | Pro | Cloud |
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| Pulse Patrol (Background Health Checks) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Remote Access / Mobile / Push | — | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Patrol Investigates Issues | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Patrol Handles Safe Fixes | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Centralized Agent Profiles | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Update Alerts (Container/Package Updates) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| SSO (OIDC/SAML/Multi-Provider) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Enterprise Audit Logging | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Advanced Infrastructure Reporting (PDF/CSV) | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Extended Metric History | 7 days | 14 days | 90 days | 90 days |
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Pulse Patrol runs on your schedule (every 10 minutes to every 7 days, default 6 hours) and finds:
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- ZFS pools approaching capacity
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- Backup jobs that silently failed
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- VMs stuck in restart loops
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- Clock drift across cluster nodes
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- Container health check failures
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On self-hosted installs, Pulse Patrol uses the provider you configure from your
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Pulse server. That can be a commercial API key or a local model endpoint. Chat
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Assistant follows the same self-managed provider model.
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Technical highlights:
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- Cross-system context (nodes, VMs, backups, containers, and metrics history)
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- LLM analysis with your provider plus alert-triggered root-cause investigations (Pro / hosted Cloud)
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- Optional safe remediation execution with command safety policies and audit trail
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- Centralized agent profiles for consistent fleet settings
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**[Try the live demo →](https://demo.pulserelay.pro)** or **[learn more at pulserelay.pro](https://pulserelay.pro)**
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Pulse plan technical details: [docs/PULSE_PRO.md](docs/PULSE_PRO.md)
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## ❤️ Support Pulse Development
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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!
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[](https://github.com/sponsors/rcourtman)
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[](https://ko-fi.com/rcourtman)
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## 📄 License
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MIT © [Richard Courtman](https://github.com/rcourtman). Use of Pulse Pro is subject to the [Terms of Service](TERMS.md).
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