Gopher for Drive’s Domain level reports tab gives you access to the following reports:
- Domain Usage: Generates a report of the amount of used storage for a select number of days for Drive, shared drives, photos, Gmail, and total usage.
- Storage by User: Generates a report with a select amount of users (Max 100,000) as of a certain date who have more than x amount of storage.
Note: The users presented are pulled alphabetically. So, running a report may not always generate the usage from the highest users.
Accessing Domain Level Reports
To access Gopher for Drive domain level reports:
- Open a new Google Sheet.
- In the top menu, go to Extensions > Gopher for Drive > Launch Sidebar.
- Click the Domain usage report tab.
Running the Domain Usage Report
- From the Gopher for Drive sidebar, be sure the Domain level reports tab is selected.
- Click Domain Usage Report.
- Enter the number of days to include in the report. For example, if you enter 7, the report will include usage information for the past 7 days.
- Select an option to replace or merge information in the report.
- If Replace existing report is selected, the report will replace the values in the Domain Usage Report sheet with new data.
- If Merge with existing report is selected, new information is appended to the end of the existing information.
- Click Load to Sheet.
Column | Description |
Date |
The amount of storage used as of that date |
Drive usage in MB | Total drive usage in megabytes for the entire tenant as of the date in Column A |
Shared drive usage in MB | The total size of all shared drives as of the date from Column A |
Photos usage MB | Total storage from photos.google.com as of the date from Column A |
Gmail usage in MB | Total storage coming from Gmail as of the date from Column A |
Total usage in MB |
Combination of the storage in Columns B - E in megabytes as of the date in Column A |
Total usage: % Change | The change of total usage from the previous date, represented as a percentage. If usage has decreased from the previous date, it will be shown as a negative percentage. |
Running the Storage by User Report
- From the Gopher for Drive sidebar, be sure the Domain level reports tab is selected.
- Click Storage by User Report.
- Enter the number of users to include in the report. For example, if you enter 50, the report will include usage information of 50 users.
Note: Merged information is appended to the end of the existing report. The users presented are pulled alphabetically. So, running a report may not always generate the usage from the highest users.
- Enter a date to run the report or select a date from the calendar in the Choose a date field.
- Use the Find users field to narrow the report to a storage level. Only users with more than the selected amount of storage appear on the report.
- Check the Include Directory metadata checkbox to include the following additional information for users: Org Unit Path, Suspended State, Date the user was created, Last Login, and First and Last Name.
- Click Load to Sheet.
Report Output:
The output is sorted by total usage with the highest usage being at the top.
If you run a report and get “No data matches your query,” you may consider changing the date to at least 2 days before the current date.
Document Version | Date | Description of Change |
1.0 | 2/16/2024 | Updated images to AES |
1.1 | 7/22/2024 | Removed duplicate text, reverify |