Overview
PeerIQ is available with Basic and Advanced licenses, enabling organizations to select the appropriate level of monitoring, analysis, and security oversight for their operational needs.
In addition to differences in feature availability, each license has different hardware requirements. The enhanced functionality provided by the Advanced license requires additional system resources to support its greater data-processing and storage demands.
Minimum Hardware Requirements
|
Component |
PeerIQ Basic |
PeerIQ Advanced |
|---|---|---|
|
CPU cores |
4 cores |
8 cores |
|
RAM |
8 GB |
16 GB |
|
Storage (preferably SSD) |
120 GB |
1.5 TB |
Feature Comparison
PeerIQ Advanced includes all PeerIQ Basic features plus the Advanced-only features identified below.
Environment Monitoring
|
Feature |
Description |
PeerIQ Basic |
PeerIQ Advanced |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Data retention period |
Retain historical monitoring data for Agents, jobs, PMC, and volumes. |
12 months |
12 months |
|
PeerGFS environment health dashboards |
Monitor PeerGFS environment health using customizable real-time dashboards with alerts. |
Included |
Included |
|
Volume capacity predictions |
Predict when monitored volumes will reach 85% and 100% capacity. |
Included |
Included |
File System Analysis
|
Feature |
Description |
PeerIQ Basic |
PeerIQ Advanced |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Data retention period |
Retain file system analysis data. |
2 years |
2 years |
|
Distributed file system monitoring |
Monitor the entire distributed file system from a single location, enabling quick comparisons across environments. |
Included |
Included |
|
Extension analysis |
Monitor file extension distribution, track growth trends by file extension type, and identify which NAS devices contain specific file extension types. |
Included |
Included |
|
Hot data and data aging analysis |
Analyze hot, warm, and cold data across selected volumes using dashboards that show recent file activity, data age distribution, most active volumes, historical trends, and volume-level heat maps. |
Included |
Included |
Activity Monitoring
|
Feature |
Description |
PeerIQ Basic |
PeerIQ Advanced |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Data retention period |
Retain activity monitoring data. |
2 years |
2 years |
|
Activity trends |
View user and client activity trends over time and filter by volume, department, activity type, and time range to identify usage patterns and activity spikes. |
Included |
Included |
|
User activity drilldown |
Analyze an individual user’s activity by volume, activity type, and time period, including detailed event counts. |
Included |
Included |
|
Detailed event logging |
Log detailed real-time file-level activity across the environment, including timestamp, user, client, activity type, affected file, and related event details. |
Not included |
3 months |
|
CSV reporting |
Generate CSV reports using more than 25 filters, from the full 3-month activity history of a single file to broad event exports for a selected volume, user, activity type, or time window. |
Not included |
Included |
|
Anomaly detection |
Identify abnormal user and client behavior over time using machine learning-based anomaly detection. |
Not included |
Included |
|
Malicious Event Detection/Composite Risk integration |
Display Composite Risk information for Malicious Event Detection in an integrated dashboard, including risk score history, alert groups, affected users, volumes, files, event types, and detailed alert context for suspicious ransomware-like activity. |
Not included |
Included |