🔍 Understand your TM1 systems with Pulse

Pulse continuously tracks every IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) instance you run and stores the data second by second. That history can be retrieved at any time to help you understand exactly what is happening in your applications — who is using them, how the model is structured, where bottlenecks come from, and how the system is evolving over time.

Understand all possible impacts

With Pulse's on-demand documentation, you can see where data originates and what every rule, process, or change will affect. Before making a change to the model, you can review the full chain of dependencies — preventing unintended side effects in a complex environment.

Interactive model navigation

Browse the documented TM1 model interactively. Click any object to drill into its relationships and properties. All the important statistics for that object are right there, so you can move through cubes, rules, and processes the way you think about them.

License Optimisation Report

Built-in License Optimisation reports help you get the most value from your TM1 investment. Confirm that current usage matches your license entitlements, and identify users who are no longer active so their licenses can be reallocated.

Technical documentation

Pulse produces technical documentation at the click of a button — saving the time a team would otherwise spend writing it manually. The generated documentation covers object relationships, views, and subsets, giving a full picture of what the model contains.

System Summary Report

A one-page report to help you monitor the health of your TM1 systems. The System Summary Report charts Number of Sessions versus Number of Alerts, maximum wait time, and the distribution of Pulse alerts — making it easy to spot trends and degradation over time.

Lightning-fast search

Pulse embeds Elasticsearch, the de facto standard for analysing log data, so search is fast even at scale. You can search across all your TM1 servers from a single interface.

Powerful analytics

Interactive visualisations are powered by Kibana, and Pulse ships with many pre-built dashboards so teams can be productive immediately — without having to design analytics from scratch.

Troubleshoot errors faster

See errors across all TM1 instances on a single dashboard, and step back through historical states to pinpoint when a problem started. The combination of consolidated visibility and historical replay shortens the time to root cause.

Ask TM1 questions of all kinds

Pulse's pre-built dashboards make it easy to answer everyday operational questions, including:

• What processes were running last night?

• Who is using IBM Planning Analytics Workspace?

• Who was using the application last week?

Build your own dashboards

The Pulse Explorer gives shape to your data. Drag-and-drop visual building makes it straightforward to create the dashboards that matter most to your team — without needing analyst tooling outside of Pulse.

In this section

Explorer
The visualization tool introduced in Pulse v6, powered by an embedded OpenSearch cluster and OpenSearch Dashboards. It stores far more historical data so you can answer questions like who was logged in at a given time or what was slowing the application down hours ago.

Model Spotlight
A detailed overview of a TM1 instance and its objects — configuration settings, change history by author and day, object descriptions, and per-cube performance statistics including feeders/overfeeding indicators, memory history, and cube statistics over time.

Chore / Process History
The full execution history of every chore and process, with min/avg/max run times across all executions, plus how to use the Explorer dashboard to filter by period or process name and pinpoint when a maximum run time occurred.

Reports
The hub for Pulse's reporting features — Documentation, License Optimization, User Analytics, Performance, Cancel Requests, and Service Requests.