Understanding daily data storage
Why is my daily data storage fluctuating so much? Doesn't it reflect the data stored at that day and shouldn't it therefor be pretty stable, slowly creeping up over time (like the last days of December?)
E.g. I'm curious to understand what happened e.g. on Dec 2 or Dec 3? Or caused fluctuations throughout November?
Also, on December 5, I deployed an update that removed many model fields:
- 25 (out of 73) fields from shopifyOrder
- 11 (out of 30) fields on shopifyOrderLineItem
- A few fields on other models, e.g. the body field on shopifyProduct and shopifyCollection, which contains the often large htmlBody of product description or collection description
Now my expectation would have been for above graph to drop on dec 5 and 6. It instead went up further and dropped a few days later - is that because of backups you keep or why could that be?
As background:
- App is elitecart
- Running one major app. Never, other than when I deleted the fields as described above, did we delete any large amount of data. Even if apps would uninstall, we don't remove their data.
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Hello,
Sorry for the late reply, I've been going through tons of other pressing issues.
The graph is kind of hard to decifer because you don't see the whole breakdown. We're going to try to make this more clear in the future but we currently have more pressing priorities.
The lines you see are a combination of tuples marked as deleted and ones that are currently active. The reason you didn't see an immediate drop in data storage is because records that are marked for deletion are still counted in the total usage (I'm not sure that we bill for them though).
If I'm not mistaken, each day is a representation of the total usage of your data storage on that day. Again, I could be wrong but have you run multiple instances of data deletion?
No worries. Just generally curious to get an understanding for it. And a better breakdown in the future would definitely help.