This page describes details of the statistics shown in the Datastore
Dashboard.

## Viewing the statistics

View statistics for your application's data in the Datastore
Dashboard.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the **Databases** page.

   [Go to Databases](https://console.cloud.google.com/datastore/databases)
2. Select the required database from the list of databases.

3. In the navigation menu, click **Datastore Studio**.

![Cloud Datastore Dashboard](https://docs.cloud.google.com/static/datastore/images/datastore_admin_dashboard.png)

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** While Datastore removes individual entities almost immediately, a namespace container may remain visible for several days to a week after the final entity within it is removed.

## Types of statistics

The Dashboard page displays data in various ways:

- A pie chart that shows space used by each property
  type, such as string, double, or blob.

- A pie chart showing space used by entity kind.

- A table with the total space used by each property type. The "Metadata"
  property type represents space consumed by storing
  properties inside an entry that is not used by the properties directly. The
  "Datastore Stats" entity, if any, shows the space consumed by the statistics
  data itself in your database.

- A table showing total size, average size, entry count, and the size of all
  entities, and the built-in and composite indexes.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** Operations generated by Datastore Statistics count against your [quota](https://docs.cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/pricing).

By default, the pie charts display statistics for all entities. You can restrict
the pie charts to a particular entity kind by choosing from the drop-down menu.

## Storage limitations for statistics

The statistics data is stored in your application's Datastore
instance. The space consumed by the statistics data increases in proportion to
the number of different entity kinds and property types used by your
application. If you use namespaces, each namespace contains a complete copy of
the stats for that namespace. To keep the overhead of storing and updating the
statistics reasonable, the database progressively drops statistics
entities.

For details on statistics data and how Datastore progressively
drops statistics entities, see [Datastore mode Statistics](https://docs.cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/stats).