CTERA Insight is a Software as a Service (SaaS) tool, hosted by CTERA, that provides real-time monitoring of the CTERA environment from one central Web-based interface.
CTERA Insight lets team administrators and IT departments monitor all of the data in real-time, including all the CTERA Edge Filers and endpoints connected to the portal in the environment. By knowing exactly how the CTERA platform is behaving at any given moment means that you can identify any potential problems before they become serious and resolve them.
CTERA Insight enables team administrators and IT to:
Monitor Activity – Real-time dashboard visualizations of file activity across filers and cloud, with granular detail and performance metrics. CTERA Insight enables organizations to identify trends and make informed IT operations and security decisions.
Discover Usage – Gain a comprehensive view into storage consumption, file types, access distribution, and ownership. CTERA Insight allows end-users to pinpoint opportunities for storage optimization, better predict capacity requirements, and maintain compliance.
Investigate Security Incidents – Provide long-term audit logging, enabling detailed filtering and activity forensics. CTERA Insight enables in-depth investigations of suspicious behaviors, helping enforce robust security measures across the organization.
Curate Datasets for AI – Identify and refine high-quality datasets from vast volumes of unstructured data to advance large language model (LLM) and machine learning (ML) initiatives.
Requirements
CTERA Insight is a separate add-on available from CTERA Support.
You need a CTERA Portal from version 8.2.1500.38 and CTERA Edge Filers from version 7.8.x.
CTERA Insight setup can be performed in the global administration view only.
To set up CTERA Insight you require the following:
- The CTERA Messaging Service, described in Setting Up the CTERA Messaging Service.Warning
You must not start setting up CTERA Insight service until the messaging service setup has completed.
- Auditing must be enabled on the edge filers, described in Auditing SMB File Access. An edge filer that does not have auditing enabled, is not monitored by CTERA Insight.
- CTERA Edge Filers must be version 7.6.x or higher.