How often does estimated monthly storage update?
Hi Terra,
How often does estimated monthly storage cost update? I was of the impression that it is every morning but, over the past couple of months, I have noticed many workspaces taking several days or longer to update.
I could not find any formal documentation of this feature but found this forum post requesting a "last updated" string, which would be lovely. https://support.terra.bio/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043868592-estimated-storage-costs-should-show-last-updated?page=1#community_comment_360013659651
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Hi Brendan,
Thanks for writing in. Can you speak to how you know that the workspaces are taking several days or longer to update? Are you running workflows and using more storage but not seeing changes in the estimate?
Kind regards,
Jason
Hi Jason,
I deleted the underlying data in a couple of workspace's buckets with gsutil about a week ago. As of Tuesday they were not updated but they are now. Can you give some insight into how frequently Terra will update the cost estimate? Does it need to be triggered by something?
Hi Brendan,
Thanks for the details. I'll look to the engineers for some insight and get back to you.
Kind regards,
Jason
Hi Brendan,
When you say you deleted the underlying data, are you saying that you deleted all of the bucket's data? Does the workspace bucket currently have data in it or is it empty?
Kind regards,
Jason
I uploaded a text file to the bucket afterwards so the bucket is not presently empty but I used `cat "$file_containing_list_of_paths" | gsutil -m rm -I` to remove files from the bucket. The bucket was otherwise empty.
Hi Brendan,
To estimate storage costs we use Google's provided storage log file, which is generated daily. We discovered recently, however, that Google does not seem to generate a new file in the case that the bucket is emptied and has no contents. The "trigger" so to speak would be that the bucket has contents.
Does this seem accurate with your experience? One of our engineering teams has an item on their backlog to handle cases where the bucket is empty and reflect that accurately in the estimate.
Kind regards,
Jason
Thanks good to know, Jason. Thank you! Hm. I added a file afterwards and thus, since the bucket is not empty, that should trigger Google to update the storage estimate, no?
Hi Brendan,
That would be my assumption as well. I presume the file had content/size? I can add this information to the backlog ticket. Was the file added right after the deletion a week ago?
Jason
Correct to both of those items.
Great - I've added the details to the ticket for the team to investigate when they revisit the logic for the cost estimator. Thanks for letting us know!
If you notice that the estimate is delaying again in the future despite the bucket not having been empty, please let us know.
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