With Pulse 5.3, you can see the Pulse logs in the About page: 

Click on the About Page:

Click on Application Logs, you’ll see the Pulse Application server logs:

Click on Monitor Logs to see the logs for the Pulse monitoring service:

When running a documentation update you can see what Pulse is currently doing:

A good tip is that you can open all Pulse links to a new tab:

In the application logs we can see where the documentation is up to:

It is automatically updated:

Until the documentation complete:

With application logs and monitor logs on the About page you don’t need to connect via Remote Desktop to see what’s happening on Pulse.