Storage Analysis

Scenarios

RDS for SQL Server provides space monitoring and analysis by instance, database, and even table, helping you quickly learn about space information and identify space problems.

Constraints

To use the storage analysis function, contact customer service.

Overview

Log in to the management console.
Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
On the Instances page, click the target DB instance name.
In the navigation pane, choose DBA Assistant > Real-Time Diagnosis.

On the Storage Analysis tab page, view storage usage. If your storage is insufficient, scale it up.

Figure 1 Overview
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**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Description
Storage usage	Used storage space of the DB instance.
Total	Total storage space of the DB instance.
Available	Available storage space of the DB instance.
Avg. daily increase in last week(GB)	Average daily increase in storage usage in the last seven days.
Available days of storage	Estimated number of days that the remaining storage space can be used.

Disk Space Distribution

You can view the distribution and changes of the storage space.

Figure 2 Disk space distribution
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**Table 2** Disk space distribution parameters
Parameter	Description
Data space	Total space occupied by data files.
Transaction logs	Total space occupied by transaction logs.
Run logs	Total space occupied by run logs.
Slow query log	Total space occupied by slow query logs.
Audit log	Total space occupied by audit logs.
Temporary space	Total space of the tempdb database.
System database	Total space of system database msdb.

Top 20 Databases

You can view details about the top 20 databases by physical file size, including file information.

**Table 3** Database list parameters
Parameter	Description
Database	Database name.
Status	Database status.
Total(MB)	Total space of the database, in MB.
Used(MB)	Used space of the database, in MB.
Available(MB)	Available space of the database, in MB.
Used by Logs(MB)	Space used by transaction logs in the database, in MB.
Available to Logs(MB)	Space available to transaction logs in the database, in MB.

You can click View Chart in the database list to view database space changes in the last 7 days, last 30 days, or a custom time period.

You can click

in front of a database to expand the list of files contained in the database.

**Table 4** File list parameters
Parameter	Description
File Group	Name of the file group where the file is located. The file group of log files is NULL.
File Type	Type of the file, which can be Data, Log, or Filestream.
File Name	Name of the file.
Total(MB)	Total space of the file, in MB.
Used space(MB)	Used space of the file, in MB.
Available(MB)	Available space of the file, in MB.
Max. File Size(MB)	Maximum file space, in MB. The value -1 indicates that the file space is not limited.
Automatic File Growth	Automatic growth of the file, in MB or percentage.

In the file list, you can select one or more files and click Shrink Files to shrink the files. (This operation is not allowed for the master, msdb, model, and rdsadmin databases.)

Top 20 Tables

You can view details about the top 20 tables by physical file size. Tables whose names contain non-English character sets cannot be displayed.

**Table 5** Table parameters
Parameter	Description
Table Name	Name of the table.
Reserved(MB)	Total space reserved for the table.
Data Space(MB)	Total space occupied by table data.
Index Space(MB)	Total space occupied by table indexes.
Available(MB)	Available space of the table.
Rows	Total number of rows in the table.
Indexes	Number of indexes created in the table.
Created	Time when the table is created. The format is affected by the character set of the instance.