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A Linux monitoring dashboard written entirely in C, with a custom HTTP server, metric collection via /proc, and a lightweight web interface.

Is cherries-works/pulse beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, cherries-works/pulse merged 11 of 11 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 4 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars
26
Forks
6
Open beginner issues
4
Indexed issues
28
Avg merge
17h 4m
Merged PRs (30d)
11
Dominant language
C
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 5, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 6, 2026
Contributing guide
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
good first issue help wanted

How to contribute to cherries-works/pulse

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  3. Pick one of the 4 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Add Disk Throughput to API
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    cherries-works/pulse#78 ·

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  • Add Network Throughput to API
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

    cherries-works/pulse#77 ·

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  • Document the Config File
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    documentation good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    cherries-works/pulse#76 ·

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  • Document the API
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    documentation good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

    cherries-works/pulse#75 ·

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  • Add unit tests for untested parse modules
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    cherries-works/pulse#74 ·

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  • Enable container monitoring
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cherries-works/pulse#73 ·

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  • Add packaging for arch (AUR)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    cherries-works/pulse#69 ·

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  • Add a docker build + CI/CD
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    cherries-works/pulse#67 ·

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  • Add OS detection
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    cherries-works/pulse#66 ·

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  • Memory Leak in Prune command
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    cherries-works/pulse#65 · 1 comment ·

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  • Dashboard layout breaks below ~1700px: overlapping header text, overflowing process table and graphs
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    cherries-works/pulse#52 ·

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  • Improve process function (`--process` => `--pid`, and add `--name`)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

    cherries-works/pulse#49 ·

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  • `$ pulse watch <process>` to watch a process in the background
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cherries-works/pulse#42 ·

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  • Customizable Web UI
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    cherries-works/pulse#25 ·

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  • More Metrics
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    cherries-works/pulse#23 ·

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  • Broader Notifications
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    cherries-works/pulse#21 ·

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  • Configurable CLI UI
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cherries-works/pulse#20 ·

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  • Add packaging directly to DNF
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    cherries-works/pulse#72 · 1 assignee ·

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  • `$ pulse remote` for remote access to monitor servers remotely.
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted

    cherries-works/pulse#63 · 1 assignee ·

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