Brandon Langley

Diskover - How Diskover reports file size and what it means for storage reclamationDefining Size vs AllocationSize (Logical Size)Size is the logical size of a file — the number of bytes the file is...

In Diskover 2.4.2+ the ability to manage Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies has been added to the indices management page:To configure new ILMs, there are three steps. Create an ILM policy, ...

In this document learn how to configure your Diskover system with Okta OAuth. We’ll go through each setting in Diskover and call out where this is found in Okta.In your Diskover UI, navigate to Dis...

Troubleshooting — macOS (Task Worker)OverviewOn macOS, Diskover runs only the Task Worker (diskoverd). The full Diskover stack (Elasticsearch, nginx, diskover-admin, diskover-web) must be running o...

Troubleshooting — Diskover on Debian/UbuntuOverviewUbuntu hosts can run the full Diskover stack or act as dedicated indexer nodes. This guide covers the most common issues across all Diskover servi...

Diskover APIOverviewThe Diskover API provides programmatic access to file system index data, search, tagging, task management, and platform configuration. It is split into two APIs:APIBase pathAuth...

Troubleshooting — NGINXOverviewNGINX serves as the reverse proxy and web server for the Diskover platform. It handles all incoming HTTP/HTTPS traffic and routes it to the appropriate backend:diskov...

Troubleshooting — Windows (Task Worker)OverviewOn Windows, Diskover runs only the Task Worker (diskoverd). The full Diskover stack (Elasticsearch, nginx, diskover-admin, diskover-web) must be runni...

Troubleshooting — Scan TasksOverviewA Diskover scan (crawl) is initiated by diskoverd, which launches diskover.py as a subprocess. The crawler walks a directory tree (or alternate storage backend),...

Troubleshooting — RabbitMQOverviewRabbitMQ is the message broker for the Diskover platform. It acts as the communication layer between diskover-admin (which submits jobs) and the Celery workers run...