About Helios

13 February 2026

Helios is a SaaS-based management platform that provides a single view and global management of all your Cohesity clusters, whether on-premises, cloud or Virtual Edition, regardless of the cluster size. You can quickly connect clusters to Helios and then access them from anywhere using an internet connection and your Cohesity Support Portal credentials.

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Helios provides:

Multi-cluster management: Actively manage all your clusters, including multi-cluster monitoring, reporting and orchestrated upgrades, from a single dashboard.

Managing self-managed clusters through Helios does not require an additional license.
Multi-service management: Actively manage all your Cohesity Cloud Services, such as Cloud Protection Service, Security Center, FortKnox, SmartFiles, SiteContinuity, and Platform Insights through Helios.
Global actionable search: Search across clusters and take action right from the search results page. For example, search for all unprotected VMs and create jobs to protect them.
SmartAssist: Automatically schedule and orchestrate jobs and workloads to help meet SLAs. Get recommendations based on capacity forecasting and disk failure prediction. View important Cohesity field notices.
Security tools: Detect threats and other anomalies across clusters with the unified Alerts page.
MarketPlace Apps: Run Cohesity and third party apps directly on Cohesity to gain valuable insights into data stored on the cluster.
DataPlatform for Cloud: Deploy Cohesity Cloud Edition clusters using Helios.

Changes that you make to the cluster while using Helios might not appear in the regular Cohesity Dashboard for fifteen minutes.

Helios allows you to access and manage Cohesity cluster features. For detailed guidance on Cohesity cluster features, refer to the cluster‑specific documentation.

In Helios, the data and metadata are secured by different services based on the use case. For more information, see Secure Data Management in Cohesity Data Cloud (SaaS) and Cloud Services Security Brief.

Prerequisites

You need Cohesity Support Portal credentials to sign in to Helios.
Helios supports clusters running version 6.1.1 or later.

To connect a cluster running version 6.1.1 or a later version to Helios, additional configuration may be required. In some cases, Helios determines that an external cluster is running inside the Cohesity network based on DNS information it receives, and incorrectly configures an internal Helios connection. To workaround this issue, Cohesity recommends downloading and running a script. For more information, see this Knowledge Base article.

What Next?

Getting started with Helios is easy:

Webhelios Documentation