Are there any tools to perform storage management? Looking to reduce storage.

Question

We are getting close to the 250GB storage limit for Jira Cloud and would like to manage the storage to keep it under 250GB. I searched and I cannot find any storage management solutions for Jira Cloud.

The only thing appears to be deleting project or tickets but I don't know if that even clears out storage data associated or not.

Let me know if you have any storage management solutions.

Thanks,

David Garrett

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

The most simple one I've seen was a shell script that searched for issues, and for any with an attachment, used a curl call to grab the metadata

curl --request GET --url '/rest/api/3/attachment/{id}' --user 'email@example.com:' --header 'Accept: application/json'

David Garrett · Answer

OK so going through attachments and deleting old attachments is the best course of action. Thank you.

Do you have any further information on a script to crawl through all issues to identify attachments, their file sizes and locations. We could use that report to help us clean up older attachments.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

I've not seen any storage management stuff for Cloud, although I have seen a script that gradually crawled through all the issues checking their attachments and reporting on their size and locations.  It's slow though, especially on larger systems.

You are right about deleting.  Your storage space includes the application installation space (but that's relatively static), the database storage (proportional to the number of your issues and the amount of data on each one) and the attachments.  Generally, I wouldn't worry about the first two - getting rid of a handful of large attachments will have a much larger effect than deleting a medium size project that has no attachments (and hence all its issues).