how to get the utilization data over a time period for an azure file share?

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Amrinder Singh 5,155 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-04-29T17:35:54.06+00:00
Hi Yue Ma - Thanks for reaching out over Q&A Forum.

Below are some of the options to explore:

Leverage Directory Statistics option in Azure Storage Explorer after navigating to the File share for which you want to check the stats.

Navigate through all the files present inside the file shares via a Powershell script and calculate the size of the file shares used capacity.

Both of these options shall however provide you with in time capacity utilization. You can schedule your script to calculate this on regular basis and shall help you achieving the goal of calculating utilization over a period of time.

Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.

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Yue Ma 40 Reputation points

2024-04-29T17:54:24.3733333+00:00

for option 1 Leverage Directory Statistics, it just tells the current utilization when I click the Directory Statistics button. How can I know the file share used capacity x days ago, so that I can know the changes in the last x days?

For option 2, can you provide a sample script?

Yue Ma 40 Reputation points

2024-04-29T22:08:44.0266667+00:00

I just found out we are using standard file shares. per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-monitoring-reference, The File Share dimension is not available for standard file shares (only premium file shares). When using standard file shares, the metrics provided are for all files shares in the storage account. To get per-share metrics for standard file shares, create one file share per storage account.
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