Does Pulse need an agent on every machine?
Not for Proxmox. Proxmox VE, PBS and PMG are read through their API with a read-only token. An agent goes on Docker and Podman hosts, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and plain Linux, Windows or macOS machines.
Pulse: Proxmox and Docker Dashboard
Watch Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere from one dashboard, with a page for each platform. Pulse keeps the history, warns about failed backups and filling disks, and pings the router or printer that cannot run an agent.
Compare with similar apps
How Pulse stacks up against other monitoring apps. Add or remove apps to change the comparison.
| Requirement | Pulse | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free + Paid | Free | Free |
| Web UI | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Architecture | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM |
| Containers | 1The app alone | 2Plus beszel-agent | 1The app alone |
| Database | SQLite | SQLite | Built-in time series |
| Runtime | Go | Go | C / Go |
| Docker | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Linux package | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | – | – | Yes |
| macOS | – | – | Yes |
| Podman | – | Yes | – |
| iOS | – | – | Yes |
| Android | – | – | Yes |
| macOS | – | – | Yes |
| Windows | – | – | Yes |
| Linux | – | – | Yes |
| Full comparison | This app | Beszel vs Pulse | – |
Common questions
Which alerts can Pulse send?
Threshold alerts for CPU, memory, disk and temperature, plus failed backups, unhealthy containers and offline nodes. Notifications go to email, Discord, Slack, Teams, Telegram, ntfy, Gotify, Pushover, PagerDuty or a webhook.
Is Pulse free?
The Community edition in the GitHub repository is free and runs everything core, including seven days of metric history. Pro adds ninety days, RBAC, audit logging and reporting, and is sold through pulserelay.pro.
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