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Need help understanding storage size of a hosted feature service!

PersefoniKapotas — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:36:27 GMT

I am very confused about what seems to be a disproportionately large storage size for a feature service I am hosting. The feature service contains 6 layers. It's item description page shows that the storage size is 509 mb. Because this seemed strange to me, and I couldn't figure out how to view the individual size of each layer, I decided to go back to my original arcgis pro project and publish each of these 6 layers as separate web layers. After doing so, I checked their individual sizes to see if things added up. Their combined size is nowhere near 509 mb (0.0781 mb + 0.0781 mb + 0.0781 mb + 0.1328 mb + 0.1172 mb + 0.1094 mb = 0.5937 mb). Am I missing something?

I checked the settings for the service and have confirmed that drawing optimization was turned off. I also turned off editing for good measure.

I can't figure out why this service is still so large? Any ideas?

Also, this service used to have additional layers which I have since removed using arcgis online assistant (through the JSON), is it possible that the item description is still registering the old size?

Re: Need help understanding storage size of a hosted feature service!

VictoriaAnderson — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:50:11 GMT

Hi!

Do you have sync enabled on this feature service? Enabling synchronization may increase the feature storage size for the layer.

Manage hosted feature layers—ArcGIS Online Help | Documentation

Re: Need help understanding storage size of a hosted feature service!

PersefoniKapotas — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 06:58:54 GMT

No. I even turned off 'enable editing'.

Re: Need help understanding storage size of a hosted feature service!

KarolFrancisAZ — Tue, 12 May 2020 23:22:19 GMT

Persefoni Kapotas‌ I am also having this issue. I have a line dataset that is 80.3 MB in an unzipped file geodatabase. When I publish as a hosted feature layer in AGOL it balloons to 212 MB. I do not understand why it is so huge in AGOL, and wonder if there is a way to minimize the growth when the data is published.

Re: Need help understanding storage size of a hosted feature service!

PersefoniKapotas — Wed, 13 May 2020 06:54:43 GMT

Hi Karol,

I never found a good solution. I ended up taking down the feature service. If you ever figure it out, please post!

Re: Need help understanding storage size of a hosted feature service!

JoabelBarbieri — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:01:24 GMT

Same problem here. Esri please help. It's consuming all my credits!!

Re: Need help understanding storage size of a hosted feature service!

KPattison — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 22:34:52 GMT

Hello,

I am also having this issues with a 113mb layer when transferred being 5777mb in AGOL!

That jump is ridiculous so I'm not sure what's happening.

Any solutions for this?

Re: Need help understanding storage size of a hosted feature service!

MarkusFrommeALTUS — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:31:57 GMT

Still the same problem in 2025.

Exactly as it was described 2020.

Any solutions?

Re: Need help understanding storage size of a hosted feature service!

KPattison — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:17:00 GMT

Esri ended up saying to us that it was a fault with ArcGIS Enterprise showing the zipped size value of the layer and AGOL was showing the real size....