Assessing Database disk usage on Acquia Cloud Platform

Issue

For environments running on Cloud Platform technologies, database layer utilization metrics are temporarily unavailable and will be added back as soon as possible, as pointed out in Stack Metrics - Database Layer Metrics.

For environments running on Cloud Classic technologies, database layer utilization metrics are available.

This document guides you through the steps to find out the disk usage of your database by using a MySQL query. This query can be run by using either the MySQL client, or a drush command.

Resolution

To find the database disk usage we use the MySQL SELECT query against the special table_schema table.

There are two methods presented here to retrieve the disk usage:

• Using the MySQL client
• Using the drush sqlq command

Note that there needs to be a conversion of the data from bytes to megabytes (MB).

SELECT table_schema "DB Name", ROUND(SUM(data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024, 1) "DB Size in MB" FROM information_schema.tables GROUP BY table_schema;

mysql> SELECT table_schema "DB Name", ROUND(SUM(data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024, 1) "DB Size in MB" FROM information_schema.tables GROUP BY table_schema;
+----------------------------------+---------------+
| DB Name                          | DB Size in MB |
+----------------------------------+---------------+
| b7aa71b3624148daa16f87b56a274a8f |         411.1 |
| information_schema               |           0.2 |
+----------------------------------+---------------+
2 rows in set (0.09 sec)