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.
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| Base and distributed indexers |
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| Scans local and network-attached storage |
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| Index to a single Elasticsearch shard, no replicas |
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| Index to unlimited Elasticsearch shards and replicas |
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| Multiple Elasticsearch clusters |
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| Optimized directory caching for faster scans |
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| Advanced Elasticsearch performance settings via Web UI |
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| Task scheduling and management via Web UI |
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| Generates change lists for efficient syncing |
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| Real-time directory view with Live View File Action |
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Indices management.
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| Manually select a single index to perform specific searches/analysis |
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| Manually select multiple indices to perform specific searches/analysis |
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| Automated latest-indices selection |
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| Index diff → compare two index snapshots for additions, deletions, and changes |
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| Automatic index naming with date/time tokens, directory names, or custom names |
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| Incremental (append) indexing with overwrite or append control |
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Global findability.
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| Search within a single pane of glass |
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| Built-in search tools: filters, quick search, search within results |
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| Advanced search with Elasticsearch query strings |
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| Metadata search across several indices |
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| Federated search across multiple Elasticsearch clusters |
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Actionable results.
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| Copy search result paths to clipboard |
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| Export search results with all metadata to JSON/CSV |
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| Share search results URL and/or query syntax |
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| Run user-triggered File Actions |
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| Manual tagging |
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Data intelligence.
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| Search page charts → snapshot of a path by aging, top files, and top directories |
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| Dashboard → snapshot of your data with clickable insights at global and volume/path levels |
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| Storage Space Information → capacity across indexed locations: total, used, and available space |
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| File Tree → instant profiling of directories by size and aging |
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| Treemap → hierarchical profiling of directory sizes |
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| Tags → analyze all your tagged datasets by name, size, and number |
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| User Analysis → insights into data consumption and cost per user and group |
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| Smart Searches → customizable reports tailored to your organization |
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| Cost Analysis → customizable report to put a price tag on your digital assets |
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| Reports → customizable to find your top unknowns and areas of impact |
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| Directory Explorer → visual breakdown of file size, age, and activity across your directories |
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| Heatmap → compares 2 indices from 2 points in time for an instant visual of data growth or shrinkage |
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| Supports standard Elasticsearch indexes as data sources for reporting in Kibana, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, and more |
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| Grafana plugin provides the ability to visualize and trend data metrics over time |
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Tags.
Core metadata enrichment.
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| Breadcrumb file lineage | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| CNTag (ClarityNow) | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Cost | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| CSV enrichment | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Dell PowerScale SmartPools | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Dell Quota | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Dell Unity | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| File kind | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| First index/arrival time | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Grafana & Grafana Cloud | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Hash values/checksums | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Microsoft Azure Blob | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Offline media | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Path tokens | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| PDF Info | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| S3 and S3 compatible object storage | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Spectra Logic RioBroker/BlackPearl | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Unix permissions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Windows owner | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Windows filesystem attributes | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Core file actions.
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| CloudSoda data mobility | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
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| Dell SmartSync | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Download | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Export | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Fix Unix permissions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
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| Make links | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| PDF viewer | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Rclone | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Spectra | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Upload | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Data integrity.
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| Dupes finder → identifies duplicate files using hash values | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Hash differential checksums → alerts on checksum inconsistencies | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Illegal and long file name reporting, tagging, and optional remediation | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Data curation and workflow automation.
Data mobility.
Curated datasets for AI/BI pipelines.
Super-connector to data lakes and lakehouses.
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| Super-connector to data lakes and lakehouses |
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| Parquet Alternate Ingester → export your index as Parquet for data lakes and warehouses |
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| Snowflake integration → stream your index into Snowflake via Kafka |
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Extensibility.
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| Build your own — custom scanners, metadata enrichment plugins (index-time/post-index), and File Actions | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
| Diskover-Web REST API (40+ endpoints) | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |
Support.
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| 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 |
Add-ons.
Diskover AI Data Assistant.
Go beyond automation. The AI Data Assistant lets you talk to your data in plain language—ask questions, surface insights, and act on what you find, from tagging to triggering next steps for cleanup, governance, and cost optimization, with you in control.
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.
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| AVID metadata enrichment | 🔵 | | | |
| CineViewer Player file action | 🔵 | | | |
| Find file sequences file action | 🔵 | | | |
| Image Info metadata enrichment | 🔵 | | | |
| 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 | | 🔵 | | |
| Curated datasets extraction for industry-specific analysis and workflow automation | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 | 🔵 |