By metehanr
I have 2 databases in my service plan and their size is less than 8GB (4300MB + 3000MB) I have been seeing “running low on disk” notifications starting 2 weeks ago even though their size were even less the 8GB ( more then 2 GB to 10GB limit).
Those are the sizes I can see from pgadmin. What is the reason I was seeing those notifications and why my databases went to readonly even though I still have 2GB?
Thanks
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Hi there @metehanr,
I believe that as you are going under 20% of available disk usage, that’s why you are getting the notifications.
What I could suggest is double-checking your overall disk usage to make sure that this is indeed the case. To do so for your managed database cluster follow these steps:
- Go to your control panel at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/
- Then go to your managed database instance
- Click on ‘Insights’ then from the dropdown choose the name of your cluster
- There you would be able to see all kinds of different metrics including your disk usage.
Regards, Bobby
Hi @bobbyiliev ,
When I check pgadmin I see total databases size around 5GB (after I removed data from test database) Therefore disk usage should be around %50. But What I see on Insight tab almost %70. Either what pgadmin shows is wrong or how you calculate is different. In any case it is misleading. My database went to readonly what I believed I had 2GB more disk.
Could you clarify the differences and why I cannot use whole 10GB disk size, what I thought I payed for.
_dodb (8305 kB) defaultdb (8281 kB) x (5084 MB) x_dev (45 MB) template1 (8289 kB)
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