Install Pulse

Pulse is a Forge app distributed through the Atlassian Marketplace. Installation takes under two minutes and requires Confluence admin permissions on your site.

Before you install

• Confluence Cloud (Forge apps do not run on Confluence Data Center / Server).
• A user account with the Confluence admin privilege (needed to install Forge apps).
• At least one space with pages you want to evaluate.

Step 1 — Open the Marketplace listing

1. Sign in to your Confluence site as an admin.
2. Open the Marketplace listing for Pulse: marketplace.atlassian.com → Pulse.
3. Click Get it now (or Try it free to start a trial).

Step 2 — Choose your site

If you administer more than one Confluence site, pick the site Pulse should be installed on, then click Install.

Step 3 — Review and accept permissions

Atlassian will display the permissions Pulse requests. Pulse is read-only on content:

• read:page:confluence — read page bodies (needed for content depth, structure, and broken-link analysis)
• read:space:confluence — list spaces and their metadata
• read:content-details:confluence — read version history and timestamps (for freshness signals)
• read:analytics.content:confluence — read page view counts (so the dashboard can prioritize high-traffic pages)
• read:confluence-content.summary — read content summaries
• storage:app — cache scores so dashboards load quickly

Pulse does not request any write or modify scopes. It cannot edit your pages.

Click Get it now to confirm.

Step 4 — Wait for installation

Atlassian provisions the app — usually 10–30 seconds. When complete you’ll see a Get started button.

Step 5 — First scan

Pulse needs to scan your content once before dashboards have data.

1. From any Confluence page, open the global Apps menu → Pulse Dashboard.
2. On first open, Pulse runs an initial scan in the background. Depending on the size of your instance this can take from a few seconds (small spaces) to a few minutes (large instances).
3. Alternatively, wait for the automatic weekly scan — Pulse re-scans your instance once a week on a schedule.

In addition, Pulse updates a page’s score in real time whenever someone creates, edits, or deletes that page (via Confluence’s standard event triggers).

Verifying the install

You’ll know Pulse is working when:

• Pulse Dashboard appears in the Apps menu.
• Each space’s left sidebar shows a Pulse Health entry.
• The byline of any page (under the title) shows a Health Score badge.

Updating Pulse

Pulse updates automatically through Forge. There is nothing to deploy or restart on your side.

Uninstalling Pulse

1. Settings → Apps → Manage apps in Confluence.
2. Find Pulse in the user-installed list.
3. Click Uninstall.

Pulse’s data is removed from your tenant per Atlassian’s standard data-retention policy. See privacy for details.

Next: Run your first scan →