Monitoring Capacity Savings

The Capacity Savings dashboard and reporting features provide administrators with real-time visibility into storage optimization activities within OneDrive for Business, Exchange, and SharePoint. Administrators can monitor active Capacity Savings jobs, track execution progress, and review storage savings generated by storage optimization policies without navigating into individual workload screens.

OneDrive

These monitoring capabilities help support teams efficiently track long-running optimization jobs and validate storage reduction results.

Capacity Savings Jobs- OneDrive
  1. Navigate to: Dashboard → OneDrive for Business

  2. Locate the section: Currently Running Capacity Savings Jobs

  3. Review the following job details:

    • Job ID

      • Includes Job ID number

      • Indicates whether the job is:

        • Manual or Scheduled

        • Live Run or Dry Run

    • Start Time

      • Displays when the job execution started

    • Progress

      • Progress bar

      • Percentage completion

    • Savings

      • Displays current storage savings generated during execution

  4. Monitor job activity in real time until execution completes.

Info

If no Capacity Savings job is currently running, the following message is displayed:

“No details found for Current Capacity Savings"

Viewing Capacity Savings Reports for OneDrive

  1. Navigate to: Dashboard → OneDrive for Business → Reports → Capacity Savings

  2. Select the required filter:

    • OneDrive for Business Policy Name

  3. Click View.

  4. Review the displayed report details, including:

  • Asset-level storage savings

  • Total savings summary displayed at the top-left

Capacity Savings Report - OneDrive
  1. To export the report, select, Download as and choose one of the following formats:

  • Excel

  • PDF

SharePoint

This procedure explains how administrators can monitor live Capacity Savings activity and review storage savings reports for SharePoint Online.

Capacity Savings Jobs - SharePoint
  1. Navigate to: Dashboard → SharePoint Online → Currently Running Capacity Savings Jobs

  2. Review the displayed job details for active Capacity Savings executions.

Available Monitoring Details

The dashboard displays the following information:

  • Job ID

    • Job identification number

    • Manual or Scheduled execution tag

    • Live Run or Dry Run tag

  • Start Time

    • Date and time the job execution started

  • Progress

    • Progress bar

    • Percentage completion

  • Savings

    • Current storage savings generated during execution

  1. Monitor job progress and storage optimization activity in real time.

Info

If no Capacity Savings jobs are currently running, the following message is displayed:

“No details found for Current Capacity Savings”

Viewing Capacity Savings Reports

  1. Navigate to: Dashboard → SharePoint Online → Reports → Capacity Savings

  2. Select the required “SharePoint Online Policy Name”.

  3. Click View.

  4. Review the displayed report details, including:

    • Asset-level storage savings information

    • Total savings summary displayed at the top-left of the table

Exporting Capacity Savings Reports

  1. In the report interface, click Download as.

  2. Select one of the available export formats:

    • Excel

    • PDF

Capacity Savings Reports - SharePoint
  1. Save the exported report for auditing, analysis, or sharing purposes.

Microsoft Exchange

This procedure explains how administrators can monitor live Capacity Savings activity and review storage savings reports for Microsoft Exchange.

Microsoft Exchange - Capacity Savings Report
  1. Navigate to: Dashboard → Microsoft Exchange → Currently Running Capacity Savings Jobs

  2. Review the displayed job details for active Capacity Savings executions.

Available Monitoring Details

The dashboard displays the following information:

  • Job ID

    • Job identification number

    • Manual or Scheduled execution tag

    • Live Run or Dry Run tag

  • Start Time

    • Date and time the job execution started

  • Progress

    • Progress bar

    • Percentage completion

  • Savings

    • Current storage savings generated during execution

  1. Monitor job progress and storage optimization activity in real time.

Info

If no Capacity Savings jobs are currently running, the following message is displayed:

“No details found for Current Capacity Savings”

Viewing Capacity Savings Reports

  1. Navigate to: Dashboard → Microsoft Exchange → Reports → Capacity Savings

  2. Select the required “Microsoft Exchange Policy Name”.

  3. Click View.

  4. Review the displayed report details, including:

    • Asset-level storage savings information

    • Total savings summary displayed at the top-left of the table

Exporting Capacity Savings Reports

  1. In the report interface, click Download as.

  2. Select one of the available export formats:

    • Excel

    • PDF

Downloading Exchange Capacity Savings Report
  1. Save the exported report for auditing, analysis, or sharing purposes.