topic Budget hosted feature layers in AGOL in ArcGIS Online Questions

Budget hosted feature layers in AGOL

LyonMNGIS — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:55:39 GMT

Hello,

Is there a way to limit how large a hosted feature layer is within ArcGIS Online? I want members of my organization to have the ability to post their own layers. However, hosted features consume a fair amount of credits.

The current budgeting tool does not allow us to block the size of any feature layer.

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/uncategorized/arcgis-online-credit-budgeting-and-allocation-tools/

Thanks

Re: Budget hosted feature layers in AGOL

ChristopherCounsell — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:16:41 GMT

No, this is not possible. The credit budgeting tools also don't constrain it:

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/administer/configure-credits.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_B5EFEED377214...

Here are things you can do to help:

Training. Remove publisher rights until they have undertaken training and understand the implications of their usage.
Monitoring. Use the status tools and item sizes to understand who is using the most credits and what items are the most impactful. Users not following good practice can go back to training / have their rights removed.

This still applies in other environments, e.g. Portal for ArcGIS. Even though it doesn't cost credits, it takes up server resources, so we want our GIS users to understand best practices when it comes to publishing and uploading content.

https://esriaustraliatechblog.wordpress.com/2021/06/22/which-arcgis-online-items-are-consuming-the-m...

Re: Budget hosted feature layers in AGOL

LyonMNGIS — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:52:30 GMT

@ChristopherCounsell

Thank you for confirming that. I turned publishing off so no one makes a copy of our 2GB elevation contours again!

I did have someone make an unnecessary 2GB copy of our contours....