# Diskover: Search Files and Analyze Their Storage Usage

DevFeed: [Diskover: Search Files and Analyze Their Storage Usage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/diskover-search-files-and-analyze-their-storage-usage-65760.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://noted.lol/diskover/>)

Author: Jeremy

Published: 2025-04-07T13:11:12Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Noted](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/noted.md>)

Topics: [Self Hosted File Indexing and Searching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-hosted-file-indexing-and-searching.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elasticsearch.md>), [Redis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redis.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [files](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/files.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosted.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

A walkthrough of Diskover Community Edition for indexing, browsing, and searching files on a self-hosted server. It covers deployment with Docker Compose and Elasticsearch, crawling a mounted directory, and using the dashboard and search filters. Some features, including duplicate-file detection, analytics, and scheduled task management, require paid editions.

## Source excerpt

Quickly analyze file sizes and efficiently search your data using the self-hosted Diskover.