idea Item storage quota in ArcGIS Online Ideas

Item storage quota

Josef_Strobl — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 07:27:26 GMT

It would be helpful to be able to set a storage quota per user (role). As item storage impacts credits use, an a-priori handle on storage would be desirable.

Re: Item storage quota

ColeWhite — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:26:51 GMT

I agree with this idea. Currently, an organization's feature storage is at risk of being maxed out simply by a single user uploading a large amount of data. A storage quota would enable administrators to reduce the changes of this happening. Ideally, admins would be able to adjust quotas as necessary.

Re: Item storage quota

PeterKnoop — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:35:13 GMT

As an ArcGIS Online organization with over 10,000 users, our Administrators do not have the bandwidth to track what everyone is doing, nor micromanage privileges and credits. Instead we give people full access to ArcGIS Online capabilities so they can choose to do what they need to do, and we rely on credit allocations to ensure reasonable use.

A critical shortcoming of this approach, however, is that credits consumed for storage are not currently tracked by user. So a user's credit allocation does not provide a way to limit their usage of storage.

Tracking storage credits per user (based on the owner of an item), and applying the current credit allocation functionality, or a new, seperate storage credit allocation functionality would be great. (Since we leave it up to our users to decide how they are going to best use resources, the former -- having a single credit allocation per user -- would be our preference.)

Re: Item storage quota

AmyWork3 — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:45:25 GMT

As another ArcGIS Online organization with 4,000+ users, we are rapidly encroaching our feature storage limit (79%). In addition to seeing credit by user on the member user management, it would also be nice to set those limits for both feature storage or image storage (file storage).

Another thing I'd like to add to storage quotas is actually displaying the storage usage of users in the member management window. Or at least enable this as a toggle to turn on or off. Yes, I can get some of those values from the Organizational Items report and do pivot tables, but it would be great to quickly access who are my largest storage users.

Re: Item storage quota

GregBaker — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:43:50 GMT

This is such a basic administrative task that it is sad users have to ask for ESRI to add it as a feature.

Re: Item storage quota

SamPalmer — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:05:20 GMT

Hard to imagine being able to effectively manage an organization without the ability to limit feature storage.

Re: Item storage quota

patriciacdale — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:48:19 GMT

I agree with everyone's comment. The amount of manual labor and increased risk that means not having this implemented is too great for our organizational accounts.

Re: Item storage quota

PatIampietro — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:57:58 GMT

As Esri brings changes to our licensing agreements that reduce our organizations' user and credit allocations, best practices regarding organization governance become crucial. Tools and methods for tracking and regulating storage credit use are needed.

Re: Item storage quota

BenjaminMittler — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:17:21 GMT

Interested to hear if any enhancements are on the way for this. I'm in a constant battle to remove large datasets, having a tool to limit them in the first place would be amazing.

Re: Item storage quota

Cassiopeia — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:23:03 GMT

This is so important as users might unintentionally upload huge amounts of data. It would be helpful if it were possible to either set a storage quota based on file size or limit the amount of storage credits per user.

Re: Item storage quota

PatIampietro — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:44:05 GMT

I have some semi-insider information that this may be addressed (tentatively) in the October 2026 AGOL update. A per-user-per-day rate limit is the working plan. I think the user limits will be specified in MB or GB of storage per day, which then translates to an amount of credits charged per day. It is unclear to me at this point whether or how any existing user credit limits will affect this, but my understanding is that the plan is for separate user storage limits.