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PeerIQ Basic vs. PeerIQ Advanced: Hardware and Feature Comparison

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