Pulse is a lightweight monitoring tool designed for developers, who want immediate visibility into their systems as fast as possible.
Most monitoring tools require auth, keys, and config files before a single metric is shown.
Pulse takes a different approach.
Download it, run it, and start monitoring your system in seconds.
Monitoring tools these days are powerful, however too powerful for smaller deployments, Raspberry Pis, and self-hosted infrastructure.
Pulse focuses on the essentials:
Pulse only include the essentials to keep everything simple.
Pulse was built around a simple idea:
Monitoring should help you understand your machine, not become another system you need to maintain.
The entire experience is designed to get you from installation to useful metrics as quickly as possible.
Whether you're debugging a Raspberry Pi, monitoring a VPS, or keeping an eye on a home server, Pulse aims to provide the information you need without getting in your way.
Get up and running in seconds.
Clone the GitHub repository, run the Makefile, and then run the
executeable.
(It is actually this easy)
Pulse has a web-based interface for viewing live system metrics directly from your browser.
So you can monitor resource usage from anywhere on your network.
All collected metrics are available through a simple API.
With that you can integrate Pulse into your own tools, dashboards, or monitoring workflows.
Pulse is built with efficiency in mind.
Low memory usage (~20MB).
Minimal impact on the systems it monitors, which is important, so it does not impact the
displayed usage.
Pulse runs comfortably on modest hardware.
Whether you're monitoring a Raspberry Pi (4B), a small VPS, or a dedicated server, Pulse is designed to remain lightweight and responsive.
Pulse is completely open source.
The source code, issue tracker, and documentation are available publicly, allowing anyone to inspect, modify, and contribute to the project.
Clone Pulse.
Build it.
Run it.
Start monitoring.
That's it.