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Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

Gain insights into storage utilization

The Storage tab on the Analytics page, provides detailed insights into the size and item count of the backup-up data. These insights help administrators monitor storage consumption.

The size displayed on this tab may differ from the size reported by the source workloads. This discrepancy occurs because Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection adds additional metadata and also modifies the data format when storing data. For more information,

See About analytics .

See Analytics page and refresh behavior.

Common features across charts:

The following features are common across most of the charts on this tab:

  • Item size and Item count toggle option: Each chart includes an option to switch views between size-based and item count-based details.

  • Zoom in and out: You can interact with line and bar charts by clicking within the chart and using the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out.

  • Details on hover: You can hover over any pie chart to view statistics as percentages and verify the timestamp for the last update.

  • Scope/Stor selection: To get the details, select the required option from the Scope dropdown list. You can either select the All content option to view details for all Stors or select specific Stors to view details related only to those Stors.

Statistics on the backed-up data:

The following details are displayed for the selected Stors:

Table:

Sections/charts

Description

Total size

The size and item count of data stored to Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Stors, including the size from source workloads, added metadata, and format changes. This reflects the size and item count before deduplication and compression.

Full text indexed

Displays the size and item count of the data that has been fully text-indexed.

On legal hold

Displays the size and item count of the data on legal hold.

Tagged

Displays the size and item count of the data tagged with the Tags created by you.

See About the Tagging policy.

Data volume by size chart

A bar chart represents the size of the data.

Data volume by item version chart

A bar chart represents the item count of the data. It includes all version of each item.

Breakdown by content type chart

A pie chart that represents the storage consumption based on content type category such as images, documents, email, and so on.

Storage tiering chart

A pie chart that represents the data distribution across Hot, Cold, Cool, and Archive tiers.

History chart

A line chart that represents the trend of data ingestion over time.

Distribution chart

A bar chart that represents a summary of how stored data is distributed across configurable buckets for size, last accessed, and last modified statistics.

See Aggregation buckets.

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