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Live Optics

Live Optics

Simplify infrastructure planning with data-driven insights and IT recommendations specific to your needs using Live Optics, a free online software tool that visualizes and analyzes IT infrastructure and data center workloads.

What is Live Optics?

Gain deep insights into your IT infrastructure with our free online tool that converts your data into simplified visuals. Identify performance issues and areas of improvement so you can optimize and plan future upgrades effectively.

  1. Securely Developed

    Access via a secure site with data stored behind numerous firewalled networks and servers.

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  2. Free

    No subscription fees or licensing fees. Reuse as often as needed.

  3. Sharable

    Access to a sharable IT infrastructure report within 24 hours.

Optimize your IT in three easy steps

Live Optics makes it easier to understand your infrastructure and find areas to improve.

  1. 1. Discover

    Catalog IT assets and visualize critical performance and utilization metrics from core, to cloud, to edge.

  2. 2. Assess

    Collect infrastructure requirements for fact-based discussions and share information with stakeholders securely.

  3. 3. Modernize

    Drive right-sized buying decisions with personalized guidance.

Environments Live Optics can analyze for you

Live performance tracking

Provides comprehensive insights on hosts and virtual machines across platforms or vendors to streamline decision-making whether on-prem or in the public cloud.

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Stay ahead of your file management

Analyzes unstructured data swiftly and reveals storage growth patterns, file types, and predictive measures for efficient data management.

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Actionable insights on your storage

Generates detailed reports on vendor-specific data storage hardware, validating new deployment or assessing legacy equipment for replacement.

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Personalized inventory assistance

Offers precise insights into machine and installation details, SQL features, and more, to facilitate efficient inventory management.

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Real-time data monitoring

Analyzes vendor-specific backup software and appliances and assesses front-end system capacity for enhanced insight into protected data.

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Server & Cloud

Live performance tracking

Provides comprehensive insights on hosts and virtual machines across platforms or vendors to streamline decision-making whether on-prem or in the public cloud.

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File

Stay ahead of your file management

Analyzes unstructured data swiftly and reveals storage growth patterns, file types, and predictive measures for efficient data management.

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Storage

Actionable insights on your storage

Generates detailed reports on vendor-specific data storage hardware, validating new deployment or assessing legacy equipment for replacement.

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Workloads

Personalized inventory assistance

Offers precise insights into machine and installation details, SQL features, and more, to facilitate efficient inventory management.

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Data Protection

Real-time data monitoring

Analyzes vendor-specific backup software and appliances and assesses front-end system capacity for enhanced insight into protected data.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Live Optics is a free, vendor-neutral tool that collects and visualises real-time performance data from servers, storage, and virtual environments which helps IT teams plan smarter and optimise infrastructure.
Live Optics securely gathers system data and turns it into easy-to-read visuals showing performance, capacity, usage trends, forecast future, needs and more—no downtime required.
Yes, it’s 100% free. No licenses, no subscriptions—just download and start scanning.
Live Optics captures CPU, memory, disk usage, storage capacity, utilisation trends across servers, storage systems, and virtualisation platforms to give you a full view of your IT environment.
Live Optics is used by IT pros, system admins, and infrastructure planners who want clear insights for smarter decisions.
Yes - Live Optics highlights workload performance and usage trends so you can plan cloud migration with confidence and cost clarity.
Data is encrypted, and no personal or sensitive info is collected—just system-level metrics.
Live Optics Optical Prime collects real-time data for up to 7 days, based on user preference. While most scans begin delivering insights within minutes, Optical Prime continues to run quietly in the background, gathering data over time. Other collections typically retrieve historical data from the past 7 days in just a few minutes.