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After creating partitions, use the Consumption page to analyze consumption across partitions to detect unwanted spikes and understand what’s driving growth. The Consumption page displays persisted data consumption against license capacity. This page also includes panels with alerting details and statuses for individual budgets, provides a consolidated view of consumption statistics, and displays a comprehensive list of child partitions and their growth trends. Use this page to monitor data consumption against your contract, including the consumption by volume over time and the consumption of each partition and any defined budgets. If you have already configured budgets, use the Consumption page to review budget thresholds, which help detect growth patterns in partitions. This information can help to manage both anomalous spikes in data and slow data growth over time.

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Analyze with the Consumption page

To analyze data consumption in the Consumption page, in the navigation menu, click Go to Admin and then select Control > Consumption. In the Consumption page, use the provided panels to help analyze consumption:
  • Use the Global Partition panel group to view totals for the global partition over the selected time range, including Consumed and Dropped by budgets. When you select a child partition, the panel group is named for that partition.
  • In the Consumption panel, use the Time window menu to review cumulative consumption trends across various time windows and partitions to understand what’s driving growth. If you defined thresholds, a dotted line displays on the graph to indicate the threshold value. Use this menu to view total consumption for each partition for the selected time period:
    • The Per second period helps detect data spikes in real time.
    • The Daily, Weekly, and Monthly (Cumulative) periods help identify gradual usage growth or sustained overconsumption patterns in cumulative volumes.
    • The rolling periods help identify recurring anomalies in volume over rolling time windows. Choose a shorter period such as Rolling 30 minutes, Rolling 1 hour, or Rolling 3 hours, or a longer period such as Rolling 1 day or Rolling 7 days to see broader trends.
  • In the Consumption panel, use the Group by menu to select Consumed by partition to view total consumption for each partition for the selected time period. This view helps to understand which partitions are consuming the most of your budget.
  • Use the Budgets panel to view the status of the selected partition’s budget, which can be Ok, Alerting, or Dropping, and to review which thresholds are approaching or exceeding their limits. A partition with no budget displays no status badge.
    The budget for the global partition might exceed its threshold, while budgets for all child partitions are within their defined thresholds. For the global partition budget to more accurately reflect growth trends, set thresholds on budgets for individual partitions.
  • Click the links in the Child Partitions section to select individual child partitions and display their consumption information. The Current budget status column reports the status of each child partition’s budget. Use this view to investigate partitions that are alerting or dropping data.

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Next steps

Based on your findings, you might want to refine your partitions with more granular dimensions, such as adding more child partitions to apply greater levels of control. After analyzing your consumption and refining partitions, create budgets to apply optional shaping policies that you can attach to a partition to provide guardrails to avoid usage overages and overspending.