Collect. Visualize. Share.
Workload Observability
Dell EMC Live Optics™ workload observation software is available at no cost or obligation to anyone with diagnostic or migration planning needs.
What We Do
Collect
Download our Collector application, then point at your targets, enter credentials, select the type of data you want, and go!
Visualize
Our online analytics engine measures, analyzes and blends your workload characteristics. You view your data in our interactive web portal, from system-level aggregate values to individual node details. Then, you export or import data into your vendor decision software.
Share
If you choose, you can securely share the data characteristics with your team, hardware or software vendors, or anonymously with the entire Live Optics user community.
Signing up is quick, easy and FREE!
Why We Do It
Transform your IT environment and experience real results today!
Save time by automating data collection.
Save money by shifting to a workload-based consumption model.
Gain clarity through clearly defined goals.
Gathering IT requirements manually can be difficult, complex and time-consuming.
Live Optics Reduces Discovery to Point-and-Click Simplicity
Explore our solutions!
Server and Cloud
Server and Cloud
Workloads
Workloads
Storage
Storage
Data Protection
Data Protection
File
File
Discover our use cases.
Real-World Solutions for Real Customers
IT Administrators
Our solution was designed with IT and business decision makers in mind. We create transparency, so you can accurately see and diagnose your unique needs and control the buying process.
Partner, Reseller, OEM
We help users gather requirements outside of their organization. We invite clients to gather project requirements or conduct a discovery on their behalf.
Personal Edition
Our Live Optics Personal Edition (PE) is a simple platform that inventories physical and virtual servers without performance data. And, best of all it’s FREE!
Quickly estimate your compute and storage costs for the major public cloud providers. Live Optics grabs the latest pricing on a daily basis.
Cloud Pricing Calculator
Compare pricing across all of the major public cloud providers.
Analyze how your VMs configurations map to the instance types offered by the providers.
Select pricing from a list of global regions.
Meet Our Trusted Partners
Frequently Asked Questions
Live Optics is an industry standard method of impartially documenting configuration and performance as well as observing file characteristics of data. It is a free, online software you can use to collect, visualize and share data about your IT environment and workloads, to help you make real-world IT decisions. This document provides a brief explanation of each solution on offer in the Live Optics family and assets within.
No. Live Optics software is a downloadable .exe file only and nothing is installed on your machine.
The integrity of the Live Optics collector, security of the customer environment, and protection of customer data are issues of para- mount concern in all elements of design of the Live Optics application. Security overrides all other concerns. As an example, many frequently-requested usability features have been rejected, as such features would compromise our strict security requirements.
Essential Resources
Overview
Security Technical Brief
Innovation Built-In
