Datastore storage size

[John Coleman]

Hello,

We have an GAE application and looking at datastore dashboard, it's showing the attached datastore usage (almost 96% for entities).

Does the storage automatically scale up or do we need to change quota??

Thanks

[Ani Hatzis]

Hello John,

Cloud Datastore automatically scales its size up or down, you don't need to change anything.

The pie chart is showing the size for each resource (as shown in the table on its right) relative to the total size currently taken by this datastore. If you hover over the colored segments you will see to which resource the segment belongs. In other words, for your project, you will learn that almost all data is used by storing the actual entities (in blue), and that a much smaller part is used for the built-in indexes (that is, for indexed properties), in green. Composite indexes, in your case 0, refers to indexes that are composed of multiple indexed properties or ancestor queries.

You can drill down the chart / stats to certain namespaces or kinds. The documentation covers more information about Datastore statistics and the Dashboard.

Hope that clarified your question.

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

It may be worthwhile mentioning here that, even if Datastore scales it's size automatically, one can prevent incurring costs due to extreme scaling. It is possible to set a spending limit for your project. This is documented in the "Quotas and Billing" sub-chapter of the "Sign up" page.  

General information on the Datastore costs can be gathered from the "Pricing and Quota" documentation page.