Viewing data usage on your instance

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
  • 1 minute to read

    • View a summary of your storage consumption and monitor data usage over time on your current instance.

    Key benefits

    • View the total storage consumption for the primary database on your current instance.
    • View and compare the 10 tables consuming the most amount of storage on your current instance.
    • Analyze storage usage growth on your current instance over time.

    You can view an account-level summary of your storage consumption in Subscription Management. See Monitoring cloud capacity in Subscription Management.

    Figure 1. Data usage on your instance
    Data usage on current instance.
    Figure 2. Data usage on your instance over time
    Data usage on your current instance over time.

    Required ServiceNow AI Platform roles

    The admin role is required to view the Data Usage Visualization Console dashboard.

    Accessing the dashboard

    View data usage on your current instance by navigating to All > Platform Analytics > Dashboards and search for the Data Usage Visualization Console dashboard.

    Use cases

    • View a summary of your cloud storage entitlements and track storage capacity across all the instances associated with your account in Subscription Management. View storage consumption for an instance by accessing the Data Usage Visualization Console dashboard.
    • Monitor the current size of the database and track additional cloud storage consumption. For example, if you purchased shared storage for your instances, you can determine how much storage is consumed from the pool by your current instance.
    • Determine which tables are consuming the most storage on your instance. Review your data management policies to determine if table data can be archived or cleaned after a point in time.
    • Monitor storage consumption over the last 7 days or the last 30 days by checking the Storage growth trend chart.