How do I view the total storage used for my Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster?

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To view the storage that your Aurora MySQL DB cluster uses, use the AuroraVolumeBytesLeftTotal and VolumeBytesUsed Amazon CloudWatch metrics.

Important: For some Aurora MySQL versions, you can dynamically reduce the billed storage for data deletion.

View the AuroraVolumeBytesLeftTotal in the CloudWatch console

Complete the following steps:

1. Open the CloudWatch console.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Metrics.
3. On the All metrics tab, choose RDS.
4. Choose DBClusterIdentifier.
5. In the search box, enter AuroraVolumeBytesLeftTotal, and then select AuroraVolumeBytesLeftTotal.

View the VolumeBytesUsed in the Amazon RDS console

Complete the following steps:

1. Open the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) console.
2. Select the AWS Region where you created the Aurora MySQL DB cluster.
3. In the navigation pane, choose Databases, and then select the DB instance that you want to monitor.
4. Choose the Monitoring tab.
5. Under CloudWatch, select [Billed] Volume Bytes Used. The storage use appears on the graph.

Note: Aurora uses separate local storage for nonpersistent temporary files. File types include database logs and files that you use to sort large data sets when you process queries and build indexes. For more information, see Temporary storage quotas for Aurora MySQL and Temporary storage quotas for Aurora PostgreSQL. To monitor local storage that's available for a specific database instance, use the FreeLocalStorage CloudWatch metric.

Related information

View available metrics

Monitoring Amazon Aurora metrics with Amazon CloudWatch

Upgrading the minor version or patch level of an Aurora MySQL DB cluster