Pulse Explorer

The Pulse Explorer is a new visualization tool introduced with Pulse v6. Starting with v6, Pulse is storing everything that is happening across all servers and IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) instances in an embedded Pulse Elasticsearch cluster. All this data can then be easily retrieved with the Pulse Explorer powered by Kibana. To learn more about the benefits of the Pulse Explorer you should read the following blog post:

• How to make your TM1 system observable?

Pulse is storing a lot more data which is a good thing as you have more data to understand what happened in your environment:

• Who was logged in to the application 2 days ago between 1 and 3 pm?
• What was slowing down the application 3 hours ago?

The more data you have, the better so you should set the value of the MaximumPulseDiskSpaceGB accordingly to the available disk space on your server:

• Cleansing the Pulse data

Everything you should know about using the Pulse Explorer is explained in the following article:

• Using the Pulse Explorer

• Understanding Pulse Elasticsearch data
• Cleansing the Pulse data
• Deleting Pulse Elasticsearch indices
• Changing the frequency of the indices
• Storing the Pulse Elasticsearch data into another drive