DISKOVER PLATFORM FEATURES

Tools to transform chaos into sustainable data solutions.

Diskover gives you everything you need to make sense of your unstructured data—from indexing to organizing, and automating what used to take hours. Whether you want better visibility, smoother workflows, or smarter decisions, Diskover helps you take control of your data at scale.

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What Diskover can do for you.

Explore the tools, plugins, and industry-ready features that shape the platform—and find the right plan for your team.

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Plenty more to explore.

Diskover includes dozens of powerful features built to simplify and speed up your day-to-day data work. We’ll help you uncover what’s in your environment and show where Diskover can make the biggest impact.

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Power up with plugins.

Extend Diskover with our growing ecosystem of plugins. From metadata enrichment to automation and storage workflows, plugins help you tailor Diskover to your tools, your processes, and your priorities.

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Tools for your industry, your needs.

Every industry has its own data challenges. Diskover includes specialized features and data extractors for media, life sciences, energy, EDA, and more — helping you streamline operations, gain clarity, and boost efficiency.

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Core features.

The foundation of the Diskover platform, core features deliver global visibility, powerful search, and metadata-driven orchestration over your entire data estate. They’re designed to help teams index faster, find smarter, and act with confidence across billions of files.

Indexing.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	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		🔵	🔵	🔵

Indices management.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	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		🔵	🔵	🔵

Global findability.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
Search within single a 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		🔵	🔵	🔵

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Actionable results.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	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		🔵	🔵	🔵
Manual tagging		🔵	🔵	🔵

Data intelligence.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
Search page charts → snapshot of a path by aging, top file types, and top directories	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Dashboard → snapshot of a repository	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
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		🔵	🔵	🔵
Directory Explorer → easy storage usage assessment for quick decision-making		🔵	🔵	🔵
Heatmap → compares 2 indices from 2 points in time, giving an instant visual of data growth or shrinkage		🔵	🔵	🔵
Supports standard Elasticsearch indexes as data sources for reporting in Kibana, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, and more	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Grafana plugin provides the ability to visualize and trend data metrics over time		🔵	🔵	🔵

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Tags.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
Manual tagging		🔵	🔵	🔵
Automated tagging via AutoTag		🔵	🔵	🔵

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Core metadata enrichment.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
Breadcrumb file lineage		🔵	🔵	🔵
Cost		🔵	🔵	🔵
Dell PowerScale SmartPools		🔵	🔵	🔵
Dell Quota		🔵	🔵	🔵
File kind		🔵	🔵	🔵
First index/arrival time		🔵	🔵	🔵
Grafana		🔵	🔵	🔵
Hash values/checksums		🔵	🔵	🔵
Microsoft Azure Blob		🔵	🔵	🔵
Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint		🔵	🔵	🔵
Offline media		🔵	🔵	🔵
Path tokens		🔵	🔵	🔵
PDF Info		🔵	🔵	🔵
Pixit PixStor		🔵	🔵	🔵
S3 and S3 compatible object storage		🔵	🔵	🔵
Spectra Logic RioBroker/BlackPearl		🔵	🔵	🔵
Unix permissions	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Windows owner	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Windows filesystem attributes		🔵	🔵	🔵

Learn about core and industry-specific metadata enrichment plugins

Core file actions.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
CloudSoda data mobility		🔵	🔵	🔵
Dell SmartSync		🔵	🔵	🔵
Download		🔵	🔵	🔵
Export		🔵	🔵	🔵
Fix Unix permissions		🔵	🔵	🔵
Live View		🔵	🔵	🔵
Make links		🔵	🔵	🔵
PDF viewer		🔵	🔵	🔵
Rclone		🔵	🔵	🔵
Spectra		🔵	🔵	🔵
Upload		🔵	🔵	🔵

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Data integrity.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
Dupes finder → identifies duplicate files using hash values		🔵	🔵	🔵
Hash differential checksums → alerts on checksums inconsistencies		🔵	🔵	🔵
Illegal and long file file name reporting, tagging, and optional remediation		🔵	🔵	🔵

Data curation and workflow automation.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
Workflow automation for data lifecycle management, tiering, and more (delete, copy, move, rename, and custom tasks)			🔵	🔵

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Data mobility.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
CloudSoda Data Mobility			🔵	🔵
Dell SmartSync			🔵	🔵
Rclone			🔵	🔵
PixitMedia Ngenea Data Orchestrator			🔵	🔵

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Curated datasets for AI/BI pipelines.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
Feed curated datasets to AI/BI pipelines				🔵

Learn more about high-value datasets for AI/BI pipelines

Super-connector to data lakes and lakehouses.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
Super-connector to data lakes and lakehouses				🔵

Learn more about our super-connector to data lakes and lakehouses

Authentication.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
Native Diskover login	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
LDAP login		🔵	🔵	🔵
OAuth2 OKTA		🔵	🔵	🔵
OAuth2 Azure Active Directory		🔵	🔵	🔵

Extensibility.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	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.

FEATURE	COMMUNITY	PROFESSIONAL	ENTERPRISE	MULTISTREAM
Community support on Diskover Slack	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Access to multiple online resources	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Software updates/upgrades	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Dedicated remote support via Zendesk \| Mon-Fri 8am-5pm PST		🔵	🔵	🔵
Phone support \| Mon-Fri 8am-5pm PST		🔵	🔵	🔵
Remote user training		PAID OPTION	PAID OPTION	PAID OPTION
Professional services		PAID OPTION	PAID OPTION	PAID OPTION
Development services		PAID OPTION	PAID OPTION	PAID OPTION

Industry-specific features.

Every industry has unique data challenges—and Diskover meets them head-on. From genomics to film production, semiconductor design to energy exploration, these specialized features enrich metadata, automate curation, and align data lifecycles with how your business actually works.

FEATURE	MEDIA	LIFE SCIENCE	EDA	ENERGY
CineViewer Player file action	🔵
EDL check file action	🔵
EDL upload/download file action	🔵
Find file sequences file action	🔵
Image Info metadata enrichment	🔵
IMF change report file action	🔵
Media Info metadata enrichment	🔵
OpenEXR Info metadata enrichment	🔵
ShotGrid/Autodesk Flow Production Tracking metadata enrichment	🔵
Telestream GLIM file action	🔵
Telestream Vantage file action	🔵
Xytech asset creation metadata enrichment	🔵
Xytech order status metadata enrichment	🔵
BAM (Binary Alignment Map) and SAM (Sequence Alignment Map)metadata enrichment		🔵
Grant file action		🔵
Curated datasets extraction for industry-specific analysis and workflow automation	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵