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Object Storage Service:Overview of the OSS console

Last Updated:Aug 25, 2023

The Object Storage Service (OSS) console is a web-based platform that allows you to easily manage your OSS resources. You can view the general information about all your buckets on the Overview page of the console, such as the quantity, storage usage, and amount of consumed traffic of your buckets, and number of API requests sent to the buckets.

Getting started with OSS

If you use OSS for the first time, we recommend that you click Quick Start in the upper-right corner of the Overview page in the OSS console to gain the basic knowledge of OSS.

Query the resource usage of buckets

You can use one of the following methods to query the resource usage of all buckets owned by the current Alibaba Cloud account, including the storage and amount of traffic used by the buckets and the number of API requests sent to the buckets.

  • Query the current storage usage of all buckets

    You can query the storage usage of all buckets in the Basic Statistics section, including the storage usage of Standard, Infrequent Access (IA), Archive, Cold Archive, and Deep Cold Archive data and Elastic Compute Service (ECS) snapshots.

    IA, Archive, Cold Archive, and Deep Cold Archive storage classes have a minimum billable size of 64 KB for each object. Objects that are smaller than 64 KB in size are charged as 64 KB. Objects that are greater than or equal to 64 KB in size are charged based on their actual sizes. When multiple IA, Archive, Cold Archive, and Deep Cold Archive objects that are smaller than 64 KB in size are stored in a bucket, the billed storage usage is larger than the actual size of all objects in the bucket. For more information about storage classes, see Overview.

  • Query the amount of traffic consumed by all buckets in the current month

    You can query the amount of traffic consumed by all buckets in the current month in the Basic Statistics section, including inbound and outbound traffic over the Internet and CDN back-to-origin traffic. For more information about traffic types and billing methods, see Traffic fees.

  • Query the number of API requests sent to all buckets in the current month

    You can query the number of API requests sent to all buckets in the current month in the Basic Statistics section, including read and write requests. For more information about the API operations used to send read and write requests, see View the resource usage of a bucket.

  • Query the storage usage of all buckets within a specific period

    You can view the graph of the storage usage of different storage classes within a specific period in the Storage Class section. You can view only data from the latest 65 days. For example, if it is December 31, you can query only data generated after October 27.

  • Query the amount of traffic consumed by all buckets within a specific period

    You can view the graph of the amount of traffic consumed by all buckets within a specific period in the Traffic Usage section. You can view only data from the latest 65 days. For example, if it is December 31, you can query only data generated after October 27.

Query the number of buckets

You can query the number of buckets owned by your Alibaba Cloud account by region or storage class in the Bucket Management section in the upper-right corner of the Overview page.

  • To query the number and percentage of buckets in different regions, click Sort by Region.

  • To query the number and percentage of buckets of different storage classes, click Sort by Storage Class.

To export the information about buckets such as names, regions, storage classes, and creation times to a local CSV file, click Export CSV.

Download OSS tools

You can view and download tools used to manage OSS in the Tools section. For example, ossbrowser is a graphical OSS management tool that supports Windows, Linux, and macOS. ossutil is a command-line tool used to manage objects and buckets. For more information, see OSS tools.

Configure alert rules

You can configure alert rules in the Alert Rules section on the right side of the Overview page. You can specify the metrics that you want to monitor in alert rules. When an alert rule is triggered, OSS immediately notifies you. For more information, see Use the alert service.