Why the PostgreSQL database is growing faster in size ?

Florian GARDES

Since a few months, the available disk space on my linux Atlassian server (Jira+Bitbucket+Confluence) is getting smaller and smaller.
It seems that the PostgreSQL database has grown by 20 GB in two months while we are a small team (about 5 people).
Indeed, the command "df -hk" indicates that the disk space decreases by about 4kb per second while nobody uses the Atlassian suite.
When I stop Jira, the available disk space doesn't decrease anymore.
How can I understand and fix the issue ?

Thiago Masutti

Hi Florian.

Have you confirmed the growth comes from DB?

Linux du command might be helpful to identify largest directories.

If it's from the DB, can you check which database and tables are the top consumers?