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# Monitor bucket usage
> Read the live Metrics tab — storage size, object count, GET/PUT/DELETE counts, and ingress/egress data transfer for the current month
Updated May 8, 2026
Every bucket has a **Metrics** tab that shows live usage and the numbers your bill is based on. It's the first place to look when you're verifying storage growth, watching request volume after a launch, or sanity-checking egress before the month-end settlement.
## Open the Metrics tab
In **Object Storage → Buckets**, click into a bucket. The bucket detail page has five tabs across the top — **Objects**, **Properties**, **Permissions**, **Metrics**, **Management**. Click **Metrics**.
The page is organized into three sections — **Storage Metrics**, **Request Metrics**, and **Data Transfer** — each pulled live from the Ceph RGW usage API.
## Storage Metrics
Current state of the bucket — these are point-in-time figures, not month-to-date.
| Metric | What it is |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Object Count** | Total number of objects in the bucket right now (versions count separately if versioning is on) |
| **Total Size** | Sum of all object sizes — what storage billing is calculated against |
Total Size is the headline number for [storage billing](/products/store/object-storage/details/features-and-limits#pricing). The first 100 GB across all your buckets is covered by the \$7/month subscription; anything above accrues at \$0.07/GB/month.
## Request Metrics
GET, PUT, and DELETE operation counts for the current calendar month. Resets on the 1st.
| Metric | What it counts |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **GET Requests** | Object reads — `GetObject`, `HeadObject`, `ListObjects`, presigned-URL downloads |
| **PUT Requests** | Object writes — `PutObject`, `UploadPart`, `CompleteMultipartUpload`, `CopyObject` |
| **DELETE Requests** | Object deletions — `DeleteObject`, `DeleteObjects` |
| **Total Operations** | Every S3 API call against the bucket this month, including bucket-level ops (`HeadBucket`, `GetBucketAcl`, etc.) — that's why this is larger than GET + PUT + DELETE alone |
Request counts are **not billed today** — Raff doesn't charge per-request. The numbers are here for visibility: spotting a runaway script, verifying CDN cache-hit ratios, or sizing capacity before a launch.
## Data Transfer
Inbound and outbound bytes for the current month, also resetting on the 1st.
| Metric | What it is | Billed? |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------- |
| **Egress (Download)** | Bytes leaving the bucket to clients — `GetObject` responses, presigned URL downloads | First **1 TB / month free**, then **\$0.01/GB** |
| **Ingress (Upload)** | Bytes coming into the bucket — `PutObject`, multipart parts | **Free, never metered** |
Egress is the only data-transfer line item that ever charges. Same-region traffic between Raff VMs / Kubernetes and Object Storage doesn't go over the public internet, so it doesn't show up in this counter and doesn't bill — see [Bandwidth](/products/store/object-storage/details/features-and-limits#bandwidth).
When you're approaching 1 TB of public egress in a month, this is the page that shows it.
## How fresh are the numbers?
Metrics are read from the Ceph RGW usage API and refreshed when you load the tab. Storage figures update within a few seconds of an upload or delete. Request and data-transfer counters lag by a short interval (usually under a minute) — they're aggregated server-side, not streamed.
Reload the tab to pull the latest values; nothing is cached on the dashboard side.
## Per-account vs per-bucket
The Metrics tab is **per bucket**. To see usage rolled up across every bucket in your account — total storage, total egress, what you'll be billed for at month-end — open **Object Storage → Overview**.
## When the numbers don't match what you expect
A few common gotchas before you open a support ticket:
* **Storage size jumped after a delete** — versioning is on, so the deleted object became a non-current version (still counted). Empty old versions from the Objects tab → Versions view.
* **Egress higher than your traffic** — public-bucket workloads (asset hosting, static sites) count every public read; if a CDN is in front, check whether it's actually caching.
* **Request count keeps climbing while idle** — something has access keys and is polling. Rotate the keys and watch Request Metrics drop.
* **Total Operations far higher than GET + PUT + DELETE** — bucket-level calls (`HeadBucket`, `GetBucketAcl`, `GetBucketCors`, etc.) count toward Total Operations but aren't broken out individually. SDKs do these on every connection setup.
## Related
Storage pricing and the 1 TB free egress tier.
Public-read buckets are usually what drives egress.
Common issues and fixes.