Pulse

A self-hosted monitoring dashboard for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere with alerting.

FreeProprietaryWebSelf-hosted
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About Pulse

Pulse watches home lab and small infrastructure setups in one web dashboard. It covers Proxmox hosts and guests, Docker and Kubernetes workloads, TrueNAS storage and vSphere environments, and sends alerts when something needs attention.

The project also includes AI-driven checks, which it calls patrols, that look for failures that would otherwise go unnoticed and suggest fixes. It is written in Go with a separate web frontend and is deployed on your own server. Development is very active, with more than eleven thousand commits in the repository.

Strengths

  • One dashboard for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere
  • Built-in alerting for infrastructure problems
  • Very active development

Limitations

  • AI features may not suit people who want a plain metrics dashboard
  • Needs a server to run on

Details

Pricing
FreeFree to download and run on your own server.
License
Proprietary
Developer
rcourtman
Platforms
Web, Self-hosted
How it runs
Self-hosted
Best suited for
Home lab owners running Proxmox or mixed container and VM setups
Last verified
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Provenance
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    beszel is a lightweight MIT-licensed web dashboard that keeps metric history and monitors Docker containers, though it lacks Pulse's Proxmox, TrueNAS and vSphere coverage.

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Pulse as an alternative

Listings that name Pulse as an alternative.

  • cAdvisor

    A daemon that collects and analyzes resource usage and performance data for running containers.

    FreeProprietaryLinuxSelf-hosted

    Pulse covers Docker, Kubernetes, Proxmox, TrueNAS and vSphere in one dashboard with built-in alerting, but is not open source and includes AI features.

  • dashdot

    A self-hosted web dashboard showing live CPU, memory, storage and network stats for a server.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Pulse is a self-hosted dashboard for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere with alerting, aimed at home labs mixing containers and VMs.

  • Monitorix

    Lightweight self-hosted tool that graphs Linux and BSD server resources and services in a browser.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxWebSelf-hosted

    Pulse is a dashboard with alerting for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere, but is not open source.

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