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Object storage utilization

You may be interested in the number of objects, or their cumulative size, currently held in a container.

Prerequisites

To examine a Swift container, be sure that you have installed and configured the required command-line interface (CLI) tools.

Showing the number of objects in a container

To show the number of objects in a given container, use one of the following commands:

openstack container show <container> -c object_count


swift stat <container>
The object count is in the line prefixed with Objects.

Showing the total size of objects in a container

To show the overall size of all objects in a given container, use one of the following commands:

openstack container show <container> -c bytes_used
The total object size is always given in bytes.

swift stat <container>
The total object size is in the line prefixed with Bytes.

To scale the total size output to human-readable units, add the --lh option:

swift stat --lh <container>