RTDB console - make another tab but "Data" the default

[Andreas B]

While developing and testing, I sometimes observe the "data" tab of the Realtime Database to see whether data I push to the DB ends up in the correct location (or at all). Whenever I do that, I afterwards tend to have huge spikes of several times the database volume in my downloads, corresponding to the exact time I was observing the data directly. I guess that is to be expected, as the data view must obviously listen to the root node of my data, and thus all the changes that happen.

I make sure to only do that while there isn't any "live" data yet, so we're talking about MBs at most rather than GBs here. Still, I'm always a bit afraid to visit the console for projects that already do contain larger amounts of data. Are there any safeguards in place so that I don't eventually incur the costs of downloading the whole DB and then some just by clicking the wrong link? If there aren't, yet, would it be possible to make anything else but the "data" tab the first thing one sees after choosing RTDB from the menu? 

[Tom Larkworthy]

When your database grows large, the live update stops working and the interface is switched to a shallow view of your DB. You only get live updates viewing a small enough subbranch (so even if you whole DB is no longer live updateing, you can follow the links to smaller branch that is).

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 8:23 AM Andreas B <and...@bocops.de> wrote:

While developing and testing, I sometimes observe the "data" tab of the Realtime Database to see whether data I push to the DB ends up in the correct location (or at all). Whenever I do that, I afterwards tend to have huge spikes of several times the database volume in my downloads, corresponding to the exact time I was observing the data directly. I guess that is to be expected, as the data view must obviously listen to the root node of my data, and thus all the changes that happen.

I make sure to only do that while there isn't any "live" data yet, so we're talking about MBs at most rather than GBs here. Still, I'm always a bit afraid to visit the console for projects that already do contain larger amounts of data. Are there any safeguards in place so that I don't eventually incur the costs of downloading the whole DB and then some just by clicking the wrong link? If there aren't, yet, would it be possible to make anything else but the "data" tab the first thing one sees after choosing RTDB from the menu? 

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[Andreas B]

That's good to know, thanks Tom!