What it does
Pulse is a self-hosted monitoring dashboard for home and small-business setups, covering Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, storage systems and ordinary machines.
It shows live status and history, sends smart alerts, and runs scheduled health checks it calls Patrol to catch problems like failed backups or restart loops that dashboards miss when no one is watching.
For the AI checks you can use a local model or your own AI provider, and a paid Pro version adds deeper investigation and approved fixes.
Who it's for
People running home labs or small server setups who want monitoring with optional AI checks.
Can I use it without coding?
With some setup. You self-host it, for example with Docker, then open it in a browser. New to this? Start here.
Can I run it?
- Cost
- Free, with optional paid extrasThe open-source version is free; the makers also sell a hosted or pro version.
- Runs on
- Linux, Server, Web browser
- Computer
- Made for servers or data centres
- Privacy
- Your choice: run it on your device or use an online service
- API key
- Not needed
Try it
- Pick a release and install it on your server, for example using Docker.
- Open it in your web browser and follow the setup.
- Connect the systems you want to monitor.
Using Claude Code, Cursor or another AI coding assistant? Paste the prompt and it will walk you through the setup.New to this?
Before you install
- Only download from the official GitHub page or the official download page above. Copies with similar names exist for many popular projects.
- License (MIT): Very permissive: free to use, change and share, including for business.
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