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Core features.
Plenty more to explore.
This section highlights the major core features of Diskover. While many smaller features are not listed here, we highly recommend scheduling an introductory call to discuss your use cases, assess your environment, and showcase the features most relevant to your core and industry-specific use cases .
Plugin and power up.
Due to its open-source architecture, Diskover seamlessly integrates plugins to extend its core functionality. This flexibility enables tailored solutions, automating tasks, enhancing metadata, and connecting with third-party tools—adapting to both general and industry-specific workflows.
Industry-specific features.
Diskover provides various plugins and custom dataset extractors specifically tailored to address the unique challenges faced by various industries. By leveraging these tools, organizations can streamline their operations and achieve their data management and operational efficiency goals.
Indexing.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Base and distributed indexers | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Scans local and network-attached storage | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Index to a single Elasticsearch shard, no replicas | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Index to unlimited Elasticsearch shards and replicas | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Multiple Elasticsearch clusters | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Optimized directory caching for faster scans | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Advanced Elasticsearch performance settings via Web UI | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Task scheduling and management via Web UI | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Generates change lists for efficient syncing | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Real-time directory view with Live View File Action | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Alternate scanners.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Atempo Miria | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Dropbox | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
FTP | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Generic JSON/CSV | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Microsoft Azure Storage Blob | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Offline media | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
S3 with or without AWS endpoints | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Spectra RioBroker and BlackPearl | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Dell PowerScale with SmartPools metadata enrichment | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Indices management.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Manually select a single index to perform specific searches/analysis | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Manually select multiple indices to perform specific searches/analysis | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Automated latest indices selection | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Secure index access/visility based on user authentication | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Find.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Search within single pane of glass | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Built-in search tools: filters, quick search, search within results | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Advanced search with Elasticsearch query strings | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Metadata search across several indices | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Federated search across multiple Elasticsearch clusters | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Actionable results.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Copy search result paths to clipboard | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Export search results with all metadata to JSON/CSV | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Share search results URL and/or query syntax | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Run user-triggered File Actions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
Manually tag dataset | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Analyze.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Search page charts: snapshot of a path by aging, top file types, and top directories | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Dashboard: snapshot of a repository with multiple clickable links | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Supports standard Elasticsearch indexes as data sources for reporting in Kibana, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, and more | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
File Tree: Instant profiling of directories by size and aging | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Treemap: hierarchical profiling | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
User Analysis: insights into data consumption and cost per user and group | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Smart Searches: fully customizable reports tailored to meet your business needs | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Reports: fully customizable to find your top unknowns | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Cost Analysis: customizable report to put a price tag on your digital assets | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Heatmap: compares 2 indices from 2 points in time, giving an instant visual of data growth or shrinkage | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Grafana plugin provides the ability to visualize and trend data metrics over time | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Tags.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Manual tagging | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
Automated tagging via AutoTag | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Core metadata enrichment.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Unix permissions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Windows owner | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Windows attributes | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Hash values/checksum | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Breadcrumb: adds metadata from files’ breadcrumbs | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
Dell PowerScale SmartPools attributes | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
Filesystems contextual metadata harvested from various platforms | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
File kind: categorize file types by groups | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
First index/arrival time | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
Image info: adds Image EXIF info | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
Path tokens: breaks down concatenated directory/file names | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
PDF info: adds several metadata fields from your PDF files | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Core file actions.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Live View: real-time directory view | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Export: formats CSV file for applications triggering workflows based on the file’s arrival | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
Fix Unix permissions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
Make links: creates symlinks and hard links | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
PDF viewer: enables authorized users to view PDF files without accessing the source files | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
Spectra: queries to verify additional status (ex: tape in library or on shelf) | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Orchestrate.
Automated data curation and integrity.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Dupes finder: identifies duplicate files using hash values | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Hash differential checksums: alerts on checksums inconsistencies | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | ||
Workflow automation for data lifecycle management, tiering, and more (delete, copy, move, rename, and custom tasks) | 🔵 | 🔵 | |||
Illegal and long file file name reporting, tagging, and optional remediation | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Data movement.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Rclone data mover | 🔵 | 🔵 | |||
PixitMedia Ngenea Data Orchestrator | 🔵 | 🔵 | |||
Vcinity data mover | 🔵 | 🔵 |
AI/BI, data lakes, lakehouses.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Connects context to content for AI/BI pipelines | 🔵 | ||||
Multistream to data lakes and lakehouses | 🔵 |
Authentication.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Native Diskover login | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
LDAP login | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
OAuth2 OKTA | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
OAuth2 Azure Active Directory | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Extensibility.
FEATURE | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Allows users to develop their own alternate scanners | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Diskover-Web REST API | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Allows users to develop their own File Action plugins | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Support.
SUPPORT LEVEL | COMMUNITY | ESSENTIAL | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE | MULTISTREAM |
Community support on Diskover Slack | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Access to multiple online resources | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Software updates/upgrades | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Dedicated remote support via Zendesk | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | |
Phone support | Mon-Fri 8am-5pm PST | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Industry-specific features.
FEATURE | MEDIA | LIFE SCIENCE | EDA | ENERGY |
Autodesk Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) metadata harvest plugin | 🔵 | |||
Media Info metadata harvest plugin | 🔵 | |||
Xytech asset creation metadata harvest plugin | 🔵 | |||
Xytech order status metadata harvest plugin | 🔵 | |||
CineViewer Player: media assets viewer without access to the production network | 🔵 | |||
EDL check: enables production storage access-restricted users to verify EDL file validity | 🔵 | |||
EDL download: enables production storage access-restricted users to upload/download EDL files | 🔵 | |||
Find file sequences | 🔵 | |||
IMF change report: lists IMF image changes in human and machine-readable EDL | 🔵 | |||
Telestream GLIM: media assets viewer without access to the production network | 🔵 | |||
Telestream Vantage: submits files for transcoding directly from the Diskover user interface | 🔵 | |||
BAM and SAM metadata harvest plugin | 🔵 | |||
Grant plugin: to manage and fulfill research grants requirements | 🔵 | |||
Tailored datasets extraction for industry-specific reporting and workflow automation | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |