Storage Capacity in Power Platform – Part I

The first question that comes to mind is how much Dynamics can store? How will the cloud behave? With Dynamics 365 elastic storage mechanism, Microsoft has given the customers the benefit of keep using storage even if you run out of it. We can easily monitor it from Power Platform Capacity section. Capacity is something that defines the amount one can have or one can produce. I love the way how Microsoft has used simple words & no jargon to avoid complexity.

Capacity in Power Platform reference is all about Storage & Size of three different variables in Dynamics 365 which was introduced in April 2019 namely database, log & file.

You can learn more using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/capacity-storage

Let’s quickly see how you can navigate to Capacity in Power Platform.

For that you need to log on to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ This is, by default, redirected to Microsoft Support (from here you can open a new support ticket for your issues). We will come back to the Support tab in a different blog!

Now, you would see Analytics on second top in the left navigation pane. Help + Support comes under Analytics

Capacity is one of the five subcategories under Analytics. If you click on Capacity, you will have the following view from Summary tab, which will provide you a high-level summary of database, file & log usage across Dynamics 365

Navigate to Storage Capacity tab which is placed right next to Summary & you will see list of all Dynamics 365 CRM instances along with Type, Database usage, File Usage & Log Usage

Click on icon inside the yellow box for environment wise detail information.

Keep reading for more details on environment-specific storage capacity!

PS – Power Platform Portal is still under Preview & is subjected to change