Changelog

Highlights

• The pending-upload counter now stays accurate over long sessions

• Fixed a counter that kept already-uploaded records in the “Pending” total, making the backlog appear to grow forever on Macs where uploads were working. The count now drops as soon as records are delivered.

• The menu bar now shows the upload queue and local history separately: “Pending upload” is what's waiting to reach Splunk (with its real size), and “Local storage” is the history kept on the Mac for the dashboard.

• The menu bar now shows how much local history Pulse Lite keeps on your Mac.

Highlights

• Process collection now recovers on its own after a macOS update

• Fixed an issue where, on the first login after a macOS update, Pulse could show "Process collection disabled" and stop gathering per-process data until the app was relaunched or Enable was clicked. Pulse now re-enables its helper automatically within a few seconds — no action needed.

Highlights

• Process collection now recovers on its own after a macOS update

• Fixed an issue where, on the first login after a macOS update, Pulse Lite could show "Process collection disabled" and stop gathering per-process data until the app was relaunched or Enable was clicked. Pulse Lite now re-enables its helper automatically within a few seconds — no action needed.

Highlights

• See and watch every process on the Mac — even hidden system services
• Watch an app and all of its helpers with a single pattern
• Know when something important stops running

• Pulse can now see every process on the system, including background services that were invisible before — like security and management agents.
• A new command clears your watch list whenever you want a fresh start. The command line guide covers all the watch options.

• Watching works the same everywhere — menu bar, command line, or company-managed settings. Type a name (capitalization doesn't matter), or end it with * to cover an app and all of its helpers.
• Pinned processes now match names exactly. To keep covering an app's helpers too, add * to the end (for example Google Chrome*).
• Watch lists now stay in place after a restart, until you clear them.
• When a watched app or service stops running, Pulse records that too — so your dashboards can alert when something important is missing.
• You may briefly see an update banner right after upgrading — it goes away on its own.

• Watching the same process from two places no longer records it twice.
• Fixed a bug where Pulse could repeatedly steal keyboard focus every few seconds.
• If you use auto-launch at login, install the updated LaunchAgent as part of this update.

Highlights

• Pin any process on the Mac — even system services that were hidden before

• Pinned processes and search now cover every process on the Mac, including background system services.

• Pins match names exactly (capitalization doesn't matter); add * to the end to cover an app and all of its helpers (for example Google Chrome*).

• Internal build — superseded by 1.2.2, which contains all of its changes.

• Various bug fixes and stability improvements.
• Minor reliability fixes across metric collection, upload, and the menu bar.

• Process collection status is now checked the moment the app launches and re-checked every few seconds while degraded — enabling the Login Item takes effect within seconds instead of requiring a restart.
• If the helper daemon's background registration breaks (for example after an unusual upgrade), Pulse now repairs it automatically — and when it can't, the banner shows the exact fix instead of retrying forever.
• The pending upload count now shows the exact number of queued records. It was previously estimated from file size and could read several times too high once process metrics were included.

• Process data appears immediately when collection recovers, instead of waiting for the next refresh cycle.
• The pending row is hidden when Splunk upload is disabled, since nothing is queued for upload.

• Redesigned Splunk DEX dashboard with Performance, Stability, and Capacity sub-scores, tunable weights and thresholds, and per-device drill-down built into the same dashboard.
• New fleet panels: Score Distribution, Cohort Trend, Score Movers, Per-Factor Contribution, and Devices Not Reporting.

• Pulse's own network collection no longer shows up as a top CPU process during captures.

• Refreshed dashboard colors — memory metrics are now rose and the app accent matches the brand blue.

• High CPU usage when the device couldn't reach the Splunk endpoint. CPU now stays flat no matter how much data has queued up.
• Reduced CPU cost when sending large batches to Splunk.
• Installing the LaunchAgent PKG while Pulse was already running launched a second copy of the app.
• If you deploy via MDM or use the LaunchAgent for auto-launch, install the updated LaunchAgent PKG to pick up the fix.

• Accurate per-process memory for system-owned processes via a new root helper daemon
• Silent MDM approval via Apple's Managed Login Items profile
• Signed uninstaller PKG for admin-only removal

• Kernel-enforced code-signing constraint on the helper daemon
• Tightened Developer-ID designated requirement on the XPC connection

• Memory Pressure chart incorrectly showing Warning when pressure was Normal
• pulse --start --no-headless not starting monitoring after relaunch
• Health banner getting stuck when the Login Item was disabled post-install

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Fixed network capture interfaces for improved per-process network metrics accuracy

• Updated Splunk dashboard with click-to-drilldown on Disk I/O and Network Traffic charts showing per-process detail