---
title: "Track storage usage"
description: "Read the Object Storage Usage dashboard for current usage and month-over-month trends, or check one bucket's own usage chart."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "object-storage"
platform: "MyAccount"
url: "/myaccount/object-storage/how-to/track-storage-usage/"
topic: ["track-usage"]
---

# Track storage usage

The Object Storage Usage dashboard shows how much you are storing across every bucket, and how
that is trending month to month.

## Open the dashboard

From **Storage > Object Storage**, click **Usage Dashboard**.

## Read the overview

The top of the dashboard shows **Current Usage**, **Bucket Count**, **This Month Peak**, **Last
Month Peak**, and **MoM Change**, the month-over-month difference between those two peaks, next
to when the numbers were last refreshed and a countdown to the next refresh.

## Chart usage over time

The **Usage Trend** chart covers every bucket combined; choose **This Month**, **Last Month**,
**Past 3 Months**, or **Custom** to change the range. The **Bucket Usage Trend** section below
it lets you pick more than one bucket from the dropdown: each one you select gets its own
trend chart, stacked below the last, so you can compare several buckets at a glance instead of
switching between them one at a time.

Each chart plots storage in GB across the range you chose, as one shaded line. Point at any spot
on the line to see the exact figure; it reads **Peak:** when that point stands for the highest
usage in its period.

## Check one bucket on its own

Open the bucket and go to its **Usage Trend** tab for the same chart, scoped to that one
bucket, with the same date-range options.

If one bucket keeps growing, expire its old objects with a
[lifecycle rule](/myaccount/object-storage/how-to/set-a-lifecycle-rule/).