Diskover User Guide
Diskover is a web-based platform that indexes our file storage and gives you a searchable, visual way to locate files, review storage usage, and understand how data is organized across our systems.
This guide is broken into individual pages covering each major area of the application. Use the links below to jump to the topic you need.
Getting Started
- Diskover loggin in — Accessing Diskover with your Discovery IT account
- Diskover Dashboard — A tour of the main dashboard and navigation
Searching
- Diskover: Limit the Scope of Your Searches — Narrowing results to specific indexes or paths
- Diskover: Search with a Path — Locating files and folders by their location
- Diskover: Search Suggestions Panel Overview — Using auto-suggestions to build queries faster
- Diskover: No Items Found — What to do when a search returns no results
Working with Results
- Diskover Results Pane — Reading and navigating the results view
- Diskover: How to Access Detailed Metadata — Understanding the metadata available for each item
Analytics
Diskover provides a range of reports and visualizations to help you understand your data — from high-level dashboards to detailed views of directories, users, costs, and tagged datasets.
→ See the Diskover: Analytics Overview for the full list of available reports.
Need help? For access issues, password resets, or anything not covered here, contact the Service Desk at service@discovery.wisc.edu.