Credit/storage tips and tricks?

Marokapara

Hi AGOL community,

I wondered if anyone had any tips or tricks to make the most out of your layers/storage to not eat up credits? One good one someone suggested to me was converting large layers to hosted tile layers.

We don't do any geoprocessing online so that's not a concern credit wise. Or a good way to find out what layers/maps are using up the most credits?

Thanks in advance for your help.

D_McRitchie

I would definitely recommend taking a quick look at your content and checking the credit documentation.

Generally, we see that storage of Hosted Feature Layers can often lead to unexpected jumps in credit cost, particularly if someone accidentally uploads a large layer, or is uploading numerous testing layers and not removing old content.

I would also check if you have Editor Tracking enabled on layers as this can increase the file size.

Of course it can be difficult to tell when this happens, so I would recommend checking this community post as it provides a useful Python code sample that can be used to return the file size of content within a Portal.  Alternatively you could do the same with Hosted Feature Layers that have not been accessed for a period of time. The following Community post also has a useful code sample for implementing this.