📚 Pulse Documentation

Welcome to the Pulse documentation portal. Here you'll find everything you need to install, configure, and master Pulse.

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🚀 Getting Started

• Installation Guide Step-by-step guides for Docker, Kubernetes, and bare metal.
• Configuration
  Learn how to configure authentication, notifications (Email, Discord, etc.), and system settings.
• Deployment Models
  Where config lives, how updates work, and what differs per deployment.
• Migration Guide
  Moving to a new server? Here's how to export and import your data safely.
• Upgrade to v5
  Practical upgrade guidance and post-upgrade checks.
• FAQ
  Common questions and quick answers.

🛠️ Deployment & Operations

• Docker Guide – Advanced Docker & Compose configurations.
• Kubernetes – Helm charts, ingress, and HA setups.
• Reverse Proxy – Nginx, Caddy, Traefik, and Cloudflare Tunnel recipes.
• Troubleshooting – Deep dive into common issues and logs.

🔐 Security

• Security Policy – The core security model (Encryption, Auth, API Scopes).
• Proxy Auth – Authentik/Authelia/Cloudflare proxy authentication configuration.

✨ New in 5.0

• Pulse AI – Optional assistant for chat, patrol findings, alert analysis, and execution workflows.
• Metrics History – Persistent metrics storage with configurable retention.
• Mail Gateway – Proxmox Mail Gateway (PMG) monitoring.
• Auto Updates – One-click updates for supported deployments.
• Kubernetes – Helm deployment (ingress, persistence, HA patterns).

🚀 Pulse Pro

Pulse Pro unlocks Auto-Fix and advanced AI analysis — Pulse Patrol is available to all with BYOK.

• Learn more at pulserelay.pro
• AI Patrol deep dive
• Pulse Pro technical overview
• What you actually get: Auto-fix + autonomous mode, alert-triggered deep dives, Kubernetes AI analysis, reporting, and agent profiles.
• Technical highlights: correlation across nodes/VMs/backups/containers, trend-based capacity predictions, and findings you can resolve/suppress.
• Scheduling: 10 minutes to 7 days (default 6 hours).
• Agent Profiles (Pro): centralized agent configuration profiles. See Centralized Agent Management.

📡 Monitoring & Agents

• Unified Agent – Single binary for host, Docker, and Kubernetes monitoring.
• Centralized Agent Management (Pro) – Agent profiles and remote config.
• Proxmox Backup Server – PBS integration, direct API vs PVE passthrough, token setup.
• VM Disk Monitoring – Enabling QEMU Guest Agent for disk stats.
• Temperature Monitoring – Agent-based temperature monitoring (pulse-agent --enable-proxmox). Sensor proxy has been removed.
• Webhooks – Custom notification payloads.

💻 Development

• API Reference – Complete REST API documentation.
• Architecture – System design and component interaction.
• Contributing – How to contribute to Pulse.

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