Rewinding the State of Your TM1 Application with Pulse

Pulse stores a continuous, granular history of everything happening across all your IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) instances — on-premise or on PA SaaS. This makes it possible to rewind the state of your applications to any point in time and answer questions about the past with precision.

Real-Time Visibility

Pulse tracks all the most important information in real time, including:

• User sessions (who is logged in, what they are doing)

• Message logs

• CPU and memory usage

• Thread activity

Proactive alerts mean you don't need to watch the screen — Pulse notifies you when something requires attention, before users are impacted.

Looking Back at Past Events

Pulse allows you to look back at what happened and when, helping you diagnose issues and understand trends. For example:

• If a process is slower than usual, use Chore/Process History to identify the change in run time, then cross-reference with Change Tracking to find what changed in the code.

• If a user reports an issue that happened hours ago, use Pulse Explorer to rewind the exact state of the system at that time.

Rewinding with Pulse Explorer

The Pulse Explorer lets you filter data to a very precise time window — down to the second. For example, you can view all active sessions and message log entries between 23:00:00 and 23:02:00 on a specific date.

This granular time-travel capability allows administrators to:

• See who was logged in at any past moment

• Identify what processes were running

• Understand what tools users were using (TM1 Web, Workspace, Architect, Arc, TM1py, etc.)

• Correlate events to explain reported issues with factual data

Summary

For the first time in TM1 history, Pulse makes it possible to reconstruct the state of your Planning Analytics applications at any point in time — on a second-by-second basis. This observability is fundamental to effective TM1 administration, performance diagnosis, and communicating with users.