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From streamlining workflows to optimizing data management, our features are designed to help you gain control, improve efficiency, and unlock the full potential of your data.

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Core features.

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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 .

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Plug in and power up.

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.

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Industry-specific features.

Diskover provides plugins and custom reports 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.

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Indexing.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Base and distributed indexers	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Scans local and network-attached storage	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Index to one Elasticsearch index shard, no replicas	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Single Elasticsearch cluster – Index to unlimited Elasticsearch index shards and replicas		🔵	🔵	🔵
Multiple Elasticsearch clusters				🔵
Scheduled tasks workers via web UI configuration and management		🔵	🔵	🔵
Elasticsearch index compression setting		🔵	🔵	🔵
Faster scanning including multi-threaded directory depth control		🔵	🔵	🔵
Optimized cached scanning using Dir Cache		🔵	🔵	🔵
Create and use index aliases in the web UI			🔵	🔵
Real-time access to directory data prior to indexing (Live View File Action plugin)			🔵	🔵

Alternate scanners.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Atempo Miria alternate scanner			🔵	🔵
Dell PowerScale alternate scanner, collects all SmartPools metadata			🔵	🔵
Dropbox alternate scanner			🔵	🔵
FTP alternate scanner			🔵	🔵
Generic JSON/CSV alternate scanner			🔵	🔵
Microsoft Azure Storage Blob alternate scanner			🔵	🔵
Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint alternate scanner			🔵	🔵
Offline media alternate scanner			🔵	🔵
S3 alternate scanner, with or without AWS endpoints			🔵	🔵
Spectra RioBroker/BlackPearl alternate scanner			🔵	🔵

Learn more about our scanners

Indices management.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Manually select a single index to perform specific searches/analysis	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Automated latest indices selection		🔵	🔵	🔵
Manually select multiple indices to perform specific searches/analysis across indices		🔵	🔵	🔵
Index and search results filtered/restricted based on authentication			🔵	🔵
Produces change lists for syncing			🔵	🔵

Core metadata enrichment.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Breadcrumb plugin			🔵	🔵
File kind plugin		🔵	🔵	🔵
Filesystems contextual medatada harvested from various platforms			🔵	🔵
First index/arrival time plugin			🔵	🔵
Hash values/checksums plugin		🔵	🔵	🔵
Hash values/checksums for S3 plugin			🔵	🔵
Image info plugin			🔵	🔵
Path tokens plugin		🔵	🔵	🔵
PDF info plugin			🔵	🔵
Unix permissions plugin	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Windows attributes plugin			🔵	🔵
Windows owner plugin			🔵	🔵

Refer to our comprehensive list of all enrichment plugins

Find.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Search within single pane of glass	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Built-in search tools (filters, quick search, etc.)	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Powerful manual searches based on Elasticsearch query string algorithms		🔵	🔵	🔵
Metadata search across several indices		🔵	🔵	🔵
Federated search across multiple Elasticsearch clusters				🔵

Learn more about our find feature

Actionable results.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Copy search results name/path to clipboard	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Export search results, including all attached metadata, to JSON/CSV		🔵	🔵	🔵
Share search results URL and/or query syntax		🔵	🔵	🔵

Core file actions.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Export plugin	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Fix Unix permissions plugin		🔵	🔵	🔵
Live view plugin		🔵	🔵	🔵
Make links plugin		🔵	🔵	🔵
PDF viewer plugin		🔵	🔵	🔵
Spectra plugin		🔵	🔵	🔵

Refer to our comprehensive list of all file action plugins

Analyze.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Search page charts: snapshot of a path (aging, top files, top directories, etc.)	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Dashboard: snapshot of a repository with multiple clickable links	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
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			🔵	🔵
Heatmap: compares 2 indices from 2 points in time, giving an instant visual of data growth or shrinkag			🔵	🔵
Cost Analysis: customizable report helping you put a price tag on your digital assets			🔵	🔵

Learn more about our analytics

Orchestrate.

Data curation.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Add contextual metadata via manual tags and AutoTag/Tag Copier plugins			🔵	🔵
Orchestration via AutoClean plugin schedules and automates data curation (delete/copy/move/rename/custom tasks)			🔵	🔵
Checksums plugin adds hash values (xxhash, md5, sha1, sha256)		🔵	🔵	🔵
S3 Checksums plugin adds hash values (md5, sha1) using AWS Lambda/Fixity			🔵	🔵
Identifies duplicate files via Dupes Finder plugin using hash values		🔵	🔵	🔵
Index differential plugin provides a list of differences between two indices/points in time		🔵	🔵	🔵
Illegal File Name plugin searches/tags files/dir with illegal characters and long file names and optional auto rename			🔵	🔵
Hash Differential plugin checksums/alerts where checksums don’t match			🔵	🔵
Elasticsearch Field Copier plugin migrates ES field data from one index to another			🔵	🔵
Elasticsearch Query Report plugin sends email reports based on ES search queries			🔵	🔵

Data movement.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Rclone data mover plugin			🔵	🔵
PixitMedia Ngenea Data Orchestrator plugin			🔵	🔵
Vcinity data mover plugin			🔵	🔵
Qumulo Data Mover plugin			🔵	🔵

AI/BI, data lakes, lakehouses.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Connects context to content for AI/BI pipelines				🔵
Multistream to data lakes and lakehouses				🔵

Learn more about our orchestration features

Authentication.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Native Diskover login		🔵	🔵	🔵
LDAP login		🔵	🔵	🔵
OAuth2 OKTA SSL			🔵	🔵
OAuth2 Azure Active Directory DC SSO			🔵	🔵

Extensibility.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Allows users to develop their own plugins	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Allows users to develop their own alternate scanners	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Diskover-Web API		🔵	🔵	🔵

Go to Diskover SDK and API Guide

Everything else.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
Web user interface	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Web admin interface		🔵	🔵	🔵
Grafana plugin provides the ability to visualize and trend data metrics over time	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Grafana cloud plugin provides the ability to visualize and trend data metrics over time	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Supports standard Elasticsearch indexes as data sources enabling reporting using Kibana, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, etc.	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵

Support.

	COMMUNITY	ESSENTIAL	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE
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		🔵	🔵	🔵

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