--- title: "Analyze Cloud Storage estates with Storage Insights datasets" url: https://daily.dev/posts/analyze-cloud-storage-estates-with-storage-insights-datasets-weoln8qtg source_url: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/analyze-cloud-storage-estates-with-storage-insights-datasets type: article source: "Google Cloud" published: 2026-06-09T16:05:15.862Z updated: 2026-08-24T07:00:20.835Z tags: ["gcp", "finops", "google-bigquery"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Analyze Cloud Storage estates with Storage Insights datasets **[Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Storage Insights datasets, now generally available on Google Cloud, add activity insights to help storage and platform admins understand how their Cloud Storage objects are accessed, moved, and modified. The feature provides object-level activity, bucket-level aggregate and regional traffic activity, and project-level aggregate activity — all surfaced as queryable BigQuery views. Three key use cases are covered with example SQL queries: right-sizing storage classes by identifying cold data, optimizing bucket placement by analyzing regional traffic patterns, and diagnosing operational errors like 429 rate-limit spikes. Data refreshes typically within four hours. A pre-configured Looker Studio dashboard template is available for quick visualization. Shipt used the feature to relocate 1.3 petabytes from multi-region to regional storage, achieving significant cost savings. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Storage Insights datasets optimizes storage footprint](https://daily.dev/posts/storage-insights-datasets-optimizes-storage-footprint-q2tw6snfl) · Google Cloud · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Unlock insights about your data using Azure Storage Discovery](https://daily.dev/posts/unlock-insights-about-your-data-using-azure-storage-discovery-yc7hlueum) · Microsoft Azure · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How Partition Access Visualizations Reduced our Data Lake S3 Cost by 33%](https://daily.dev/posts/how-partition-access-visualizations-reduced-our-data-lake-s3-cost-by-33--dnz5wsm95) · Yelp Engineering · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#gcp](https://daily.dev/tags/gcp), [#finops](https://daily.dev/tags/finops), [#google-bigquery](https://daily.dev/tags/google-bigquery) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/analyze-cloud-storage-estates-with-storage-insights-datasets-weoln8qtg)