Update docker.io/rcourtman/pulse Docker tag to v5

v5.0.6: Pulse v5.0.6

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✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-29 10:51:45 UTC
Workflow: Pulse Release Pipeline #​78

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

What's New in v5.0.6

🚀 Docker Container Updates from UI

You can now update Docker containers directly from the Pulse UI with one click:

• Click the blue update arrow on any container with an available update
• Automatic backup of the old container before updating
• Rollback protection if the new container fails to start
• Backup containers are automatically cleaned up after 5 minutes

✨ Other Improvements

• Multi-NIC Support: New --report-ip flag for hosts with multiple network interfaces (#​945)
• AI Alert Management: Dismissed AI alerts can now be reverted from suppression rules
• Streaming Fix: Removed duplicate AI chat response streaming (#​947)
• Test Coverage: Improved test coverage for Docker agent registry

Agent Auto-Update

Agents running v5.0.5+ will automatically update to receive the new container update capability.

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.6

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.6

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

v5.0.5: Pulse v5.0.5

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✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

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Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-27 12:04:07 UTC
Workflow: Pulse Release Pipeline #​76

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

Bug Fixes

• fix(agent): Detect and register both PVE and PBS on same host (#​925)

  • The agent now detects ALL Proxmox products when PVE and PBS are co-installed
  • Each product gets its own API token and registration
  • Supports the officially-supported PBS-on-PVE configuration

• fix: Detect duplicate nodes by IP resolution during auto-register (#​924)

  • Prevents duplicate entries when a node is manually configured by hostname
    and later the agent registers using the IP address
  • DNS resolution check during agent registration

• fix: GitHub fallback for install scripts on LXC/barebone updates

  • Agent installer now falls back to GitHub releases if local binaries unavailable

• fix: Docker healthcheck with HTTPS enabled

• fix: Auto-clear stale LinkedHostAgentID references during node updates

Features

• feat: Agent self-unregistration on uninstall

  • Agent now properly unregisters itself from Pulse when uninstalled

• feat: Kiosk mode for clean dashboard display

  • New kiosk mode for TV/wall-mounted displays

UI Improvements

• ui: Enhanced Docker update documentation in Settings
  • Shows copy-able update commands for Docker installations

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.5

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.5

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

v5.0.4: Pulse v5.0.4

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✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-26 17:26:13 UTC
Workflow: Pulse Release Pipeline #​74

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

What's New

Features

• Mobile UI optimization: Improved layouts for Alerts, Storage, and Navigation on mobile devices
• Power consumption monitoring: Intel RAPL and AMD Energy support for tracking power usage
• lm-sensors integration: Collect and display all sensor data including fans and DDR5 temps
• Docker environment variables: Display environment variables for Docker containers
• PBS turnkey setup: Password-based authentication and API token creation for easier PBS integration
• Backups column visibility: Toggle columns including new Comment column
• Copy uninstall button: Added to Managed Agents table for easier cleanup

Fixes

• Add --disk-exclude support to install script
• Host Agent toggle visual state not updating after click
• URL edit popover now respects viewport boundaries (#​912)
• ThresholdsTable uses Guest URL for node navigation (#​870)
• Allow clearing AI findings when AI is disabled
• Increase PBS storage content timeout to 60s
• Remove Alpine from LXC template options
• Remove hardcoded sudo from agent install commands
• Require Pro license for auto-fix and autonomous mode

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.4

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.4

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

v5.0.3: Pulse v5.0.3

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✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-25 13:52:36 UTC
Workflow: Pulse Release Pipeline #​71

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

Bug Fixes

• fix: Use LinkedNodeID for temperature matching to fix duplicate hostname bug (#​891)
• fix: Managed Agents deduplicating by hostname instead of id
• fix: Group VMs by instance instead of node for duplicate hostname support
• fix: Host Agents alert toggle button not working (#​893)
• fix: Remove agent should delete all types, not just first (#​898)
• fix: Node disk column respects Trends view mode (#​904)
• fix: Allow dismissing AI findings without Pro license (#​885)
• fix: Immediately broadcast backup/snapshot updates to frontend
• fix: Properly close command client WebSocket when disabling remotely
• fix(#​903): Add 2-minute timeout for pending config sync
• fix(#​903): Optimistic toggle with sync indicator for AI commands

New Features

• feat: Add disk exclusion filter for host agent (#​896)
• feat: S.M.A.R.T. disk data collection via smartctl (#​907)
• feat: Hide AI buttons when AI is not configured (#​905)
• feat: Remote agent configuration for AI command execution (#​903)
• feat: Agent reports CommandsEnabled status to server (#​903)
• feat: Add SysV init support for legacy systems (#​894)

Documentation

• docs: Add disk exclusion and S.M.A.R.T. documentation

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.3

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.3

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

v5.0.2: Pulse v5.0.2

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✅ Release Asset Validation (Post-Publish): PASSED

Assets were revalidated after publication due to a release edit.

Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-24 18:34:49 UTC
Workflow: Pulse Release Pipeline #​65

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

Security Improvements

Breaking Change: Command Execution Opt-In###

AI command execution on agents is now disabled by default for improved security.

If you use AI auto-fix features, add one of these to your agent configuration:

• Flag: --enable-commands
• Environment variable: PULSE_ENABLE_COMMANDS=true

The old --disable-commands flag is deprecated (commands are disabled by default now).

Bug Fixes

• DHCP IP changes: Handle dynamic IP changes without creating duplicate host entries
• Duplicate hostnames: Allow same hostname for different Proxmox hosts (e.g., multiple clusters)
• AI Patrol: Only runs when AI is enabled in settings
• AI timeout: Request timeout setting now persists correctly

Documentation

• Added backup permissions fix for v4→v5 upgrades

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.2

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.2

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

v5.0.1: Pulse v5.0.1

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Status: Live release assets re-validated ✅
Validated: 2025-12-24 11:53:25 UTC
Workflow: Validate Release Assets #​69

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

Bug Fixes

License Persistence for Docker Users

• Fixed: License activation now survives Docker container recreation
• Docker users no longer lose their Pro license when updating to a new image
• Existing v5.0.0 users need to re-enter their license key one last time, then it persists forever
• Technical: Encryption key now stored in /data/.license-key instead of relying on /etc/machine-id

Per-Node TLS Fingerprints

• Improved SSL certificate handling for Proxmox clusters (TOFU - Trust On First Use)

Improvements

Configurable AI Request Timeout (#​880)

• Added new timeout setting in AI config for users with slower hardware
• Prevents AI requests from timing out on resource-constrained systems

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.1

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.1

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.

v5.0.0: Pulse v5.0.0

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Validated: 2025-12-23 23:23:53 UTC
Workflow: Validate Release Assets #​68

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

Pulse v5.0.0

The biggest Pulse release yet. v5 brings AI-powered monitoring, native Kubernetes support, a unified agent architecture, and dozens of refinements based on community feedback.

Upgrade Guide: docs/UPGRADE_v5.md

Live Demo: demo.pulserelay.pro

What's New in v5

AI-Powered Monitoring

• AI Chat Assistant - Ask questions about your infrastructure in natural language. Bring your own API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Ollama, and more).
• AI Patrol (Pro) - Automated background health checks that run on a schedule and surface findings before they become outages.
• Real-time Anomaly Detection - Automatic baseline learning detects unusual CPU, memory, and disk patterns across your infrastructure.
• Alert Analysis - Optional AI analysis when alerts fire, providing context and suggested next steps.
• Cost Tracking - Track AI usage and costs per provider/model.

Kubernetes Support

• Native cluster monitoring via the unified agent with auto-detection.
• Resource visibility: Pods, Deployments, DaemonSets, StatefulSets, Services, Nodes, and Namespaces.
• Health status tracking for all workloads with init container awareness.
• Namespace filtering with wildcard support for include/exclude rules.
• Multi-cluster support - Monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters from one Pulse instance.

Unified Agent

• Single binary that auto-detects Docker, Kubernetes, and Proxmox environments.
• Simplified installation UI with step-by-step setup wizard.
• Connection URL override for complex network setups.
• Version mismatch detection with easy upgrade prompts.
• Linux agent archives included in releases for manual installs.

UI/UX Improvements

• Setup Wizard - Streamlined 3-step onboarding for new installs.
• Redesigned pages - Ceph, Replication, and Mail Gateway views completely rebuilt.
• PBS Datastores now included in the unified Storage view.
• Collapsible threshold sections for cleaner alert configuration.
• Guest tag filtering - Filter alerts by VM/container tags and name prefixes.
• Clickable Docker host names for easier navigation.
• Mobile improvements for better responsiveness on smaller screens.

Security & Operations

• OIDC refresh token support for long-lived sessions.
• Improved OIDC environment variable handling - Config now works even without oidc.enc file.
• Bootstrap token flow for secure first-time setup.
• Enhanced encryption safety preventing accidental key deletion.
• WebSocket connection stability improvements.

Docker & Container Improvements

• Proxmox 9.1+ OCI container support via the unified agent.
• Docker Swarm service monitoring improvements.
• Container health check failure detection in AI Patrol.
• Rate limiting fix for Docker overview page.

Performance

• Optimized metric sampling - Better balance between resolution and memory usage.
• Reduced log noise - Routine operations now use debug level logging.
• Faster initial patrols - Skip if one ran recently.
• RSS/Atom feed fallback for update checks when GitHub rate limits hit.

Pulse Pro

AI Patrol requires a Pulse Pro license. Free users get full access to the AI Chat assistant (BYOK) and all other monitoring features.

What Makes AI Patrol Different

Unlike chatting with a generic AI, Patrol runs automatically and sees your entire infrastructure at once - every node, VM, container, storage pool, backup job, and Kubernetes cluster. It's not just a static checklist; it's an LLM analyzing real-time data enriched with historical context.

Context Patrol sees (and general AI can't):

• Trend analysis - 24h and 7d patterns for CPU, memory, disk across all resources
• Learned baselines - Detects anomalies based on what's normal for your environment
• Capacity predictions - "Storage pool will be full in 12 days at current growth"
• Infrastructure changes - VM migrations, config changes, new deployments
• Resource correlations - Patterns across related resources (containers on same host)
• Your notes - User annotations explaining expected behavior ("runs hot for transcoding")
• Previous findings - Respects dismissed alerts, learns from past investigations

Examples of what Patrol catches:

• Storage pools approaching capacity (ZFS, LVM, Ceph)
• Backup jobs that silently failed or are overdue
• VMs that keep restart-looping without errors surfacing
• Clock drift across cluster nodes affecting Ceph/HA
• Container health check failures across Docker/Podman/Kubernetes
• Degraded Ceph OSDs or PGs
• Kubernetes pods stuck in Pending/CrashLoopBackOff
• PBS datastores filling up or jobs failing
• Resources with sustained high usage trending toward limits
• Any pattern the LLM identifies as unusual for your specific setup

Because it's an LLM with full context, Patrol catches issues that static threshold-based alerting misses - the subtle patterns and correlations that indicate trouble before metrics hit alert thresholds.

Try Pulse Pro → 14-day money-back guarantee.

Bug Fixes (Highlights)

• Fix zpool binary detection on TrueNAS SCALE (resolves ZFS storage over-reporting)
• Fix Guest URLs not being used for PVE/PBS/PMG navigation
• Fix deleted env-based API tokens reappearing after restart
• Fix thresholds set to 0 not properly disabling alerts
• Fix AI model selector dropdown overflow on small screens
• Fix backup matching to use instance+VMID (prevents cross-instance collisions)
• Fix host agent identity collisions with MAC fallback
• Fix WebSocket reconnection log flooding
• Fix patrol interval not obeying configured settings
• Fix race conditions in agent WebSocket message handling

Thank You

Special thanks to everyone who tested the release candidates and provided feedback in the v5.0 RC Discussion.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/compare/v4.36.2...v5.0.0

Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:5.0.0

Docker Compose:
Update your docker-compose.yml to use rcourtman/pulse:5.0.0

See the Installation Guide for complete setup instructions.