December 1, 2021 | Reading time 8 minutes

How to Find Your Storage Size in Google Workspace (G Suite)?

After migrating data to your Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) environment, it is important to know how much data you are using in the cloud.  Is there an easy way to do this?  The Google Workspaces Admin Console readily provides all relevant information, including data used, about your Google Workspace account. Let’s see how you can quickly determine the storage size in the Google Workspace environment in a few simple steps.

Find your storage size in Google Workspace (G Suite) step-by-step

Login to your Google Workspaces Admin Console.

Workspaces Admin Console
Login to the Google Workspaces Admin Console

Next, navigate to the Reports dashboard.  As noted, this allows you to monitor the usage across your organization.

Admin Console
Choose the Reports dashboard in the Admin Console

 


The Highlights dashboard provides an overview of the account.  Under the “What’s the storage being used?” section, you will see the storage amount used.  You can also click View Details to see a more detailed view of how storage is allocated in the account.

Storage Size in Google Workspace


Viewing storage used in the Google Workspace Admin Console

The detailed view will take you to the Accounts menu, Storage used by apps.

Admin Reports Console


Viewing storage used by apps in Google Workspace Admin Reports Console

(1) You can also select or unselect apps to focus on a particular Google Workspaces service. (2) You can download the storage detail, either in the form of a Google Sheets document or a CSV file.

Selecting a single Google Workspaces


Selecting a single Google Workspaces service to note storage space used

Choose to download the storage details via Google Sheets or CSV.

Download the Google Workspaces storage


Download the Google Workspaces storage detail information

Below is an example of exporting the information to Google Sheets.


Exporting Google Workspaces storage detail to Google Sheets

Back up your Google Workspace data with SpinOne.

Wrapping Up

By following just a few simple steps in the Google Workspaces Admin Console, you can easily find storage details for space used in your Google Workspaces environment. The Reports dashboard helps you understand data usage across various Google services and how data changes over time.

This guide is one of many articles created by SpinOne to help a Google Workspace Administrator better manage G Suite Admin Console, Google Workspace services and Google Apps.

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