Pulses Screen

The pulses screen is a live dashboard showing real-time system metrics.

Access

• Command: :pulses

Features

• Auto-refresh: Updates every 2 seconds
• Resource counts: Displays running containers, images, volumes, networks
• System status: Shows current time and health status
• Card layout: Organized information in visual cards

Dashboard Cards

Resources Card

• Containers: Count of running containers
• Images: Total images available
• Volumes: Total volumes
• Networks: Total networks

System Card

• Current time (HH:MM:SS)
• System status (Healthy/Warning/Error)

Example

┌─────────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────────┐
│ Resources           │  │ System              │
│                     │  │                     │
│ Containers: 12      │  │ Time: 14:32:45      │
│ Images:     47      │  │ Status: Healthy     │
│ Volumes:    8       │  │                     │
│ Networks:   3       │  │                     │
└─────────────────────┘  └─────────────────────┘

Hotkeys

Key	Action
r	Manual refresh
Esc or q	Close screen

Use Cases

• Quick overview of system resources
• Monitor container counts during deployments
• Verify system health at a glance
• Dashboard for monitoring setups

Implementation Notes

• Lightweight polling (no expensive operations)
• Uses ListContainers(false) for running only
• Future: Add CPU/memory metrics, alert indicators