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 Data 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. You are charged for the minimum billable size for an object that is smaller than 64 KB. If the size of an object is greater than or equal to 64 KB, you are charged for the actual object size. When a bucket contains multiple IA, Archive, Cold Archive, or Deep Cold Archive objects that are smaller than 64 KB in size, the billed storage usage is greater than the actual storage usage 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 for all buckets in the current month in the Basic Data section, including inbound and outbound traffic over the Internet and 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
In the Basic Data section, you can query the number of API requests sent to all buckets in the account in the current month, including read and write requests. For more information about the API operations used to send read and write requests, see Put requests and Get requests described in View the resource usage of a bucket.
Query the storage usage of all buckets within a specific period
In the Storage Class section, you can query storage usage statistics for each storage class from the line chart. You can query statistics within a time range of up to 65 days. For example, if you set the end of the time range to December 31, 2023, the earliest start time that you can specify in the query is October 27, 2023.
Query the amount of traffic consumed by all buckets within a specific period
In the Traffic Usage section, you can query traffic statistics within a given period from the line chart. You can query statistics within a time range of up to 65 days. For example, if you set the end of the time range to December 31, 2023, the earliest start time that you can specify in the query is October 27, 2023.
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
In the Common Tools section, you can learn about and download common OSS tools, such as ossbrowser, which is a graphical tool that supports Windows, Linux, and macOS, and ossutil, which is a command-line tool for managing 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 to monitor the specified metrics. When an alert rule is triggered, OSS immediately notifies you. For more information, see Use the alert service.
Manage resource plans
You can check resource plans that are in effect, about to expire, or about to be exhausted in the Resource Plan section on the right side of the Overview page. You can also click Purchase to buy a resource plan or click Manage to manage existing resource plans. For more information, see Overview.