Jira restart issue was caused by a file system full. lot of space is used by snapshots

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Jira restart issue

The restart issue was caused by a file system full. lot of space is used by the snapshots and and we removed the useless ones. instance working for now.

is there a function which can return us the free space?

Goal is to be able to monitor the snapshot used space to avoid the file system Full situation in the future ?

[Steven F Behnke · Accepted solution]

The backups are being created by a service named Backup Service. You can adjust this to your needs. If you do filesystem and database backups externally, you may find these backups unnecessary and turn it off.

The ExportService class doesn't do anything to stop backups due to size nor remove old backups. You can write a cron job or windows service to manage this externally, or you can write a new java class and register it as a service in jira, to manage the backups from within Jira. 

There is a Free Space health check in Jira, but this only handles double what the index size is and is not adjustable. You can and should be monitoring your free disk space with external tools.