Free Proxmox Monitoring Dashboard with Pulse 🖥️

In this video, I’m taking a look at Pulse which is a brand-new open-source monitoring tool built specifically for Proxmox VE and Docker. This free tool gives Proxmox a sleek, real-time dashboard that I think it’s always needed. It shows you your nodes, VMs, LXC containers, and even Docker hosts all in one place. I’ll walk you through what Pulse is, how to install it using Docker, how to connect it to your Proxmox nodes, and how to add Docker monitoring.

If you’ve been searching for a simple but powerful way to monitor your home lab, this is one tool you’ll want to try. Pulse is free, easy to set up, and made for the exact combination many of us are running — Proxmox and Docker.

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Pulse GitHub Repo: https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse

🔗 Full write-up, setup commands, and troubleshooting: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/10/this-free-tool-gives-proxmox-the-monitoring-dashboard-it-always-needed/

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Introduction to Pulse Proxmox monitoring - 0:00
What is Pulse, an overview - 0:50
What Pulse monitoring can do - 1:52
Features of Pulse - 3:13
Deploying Pulse using Docker - 4:45
Adding a Proxmox node - 5:34
Other views it includes for Proxmox - 6:47
Challenges with Docker monitoring - 7:24
Generating a new API token - 8:20
Workaround to Docker agent package not being found - 8:41
Talking about the value of PVE and Docker together - 9:22
Embedding Pulse dashboards in Homelab monitoring dashboards - 10:05
Comparing Pulse monitoring to other monitoring tools - 10:24
Wrapping up Pulse Proxmox monitoring overview - 11:24