How often are you checking your disk space usage in your environment? What we often see is people setting up monitoring for disk space usage, but they never bother to check the machine itself. This makes sense because when you are taking care of 100s of machines, you can’t reasonably go and check each and every one. Even if you were to assign someone to it, it’s one of those tasks that will drive them crazy and will be so time-consuming that they will eventually either not check or won’t be available for anything really substantive.
Given the above scenario, it’s understandable that people have delegated this task to machines. It’s a relief to offload monotonous tasks to an entity that won’t be bothered by repetition. However, when something does go wrong, the machine will alert you, and this is when your team can leap into action, demonstrating their value by resolving the issue.
But do you know what can save your team time? It’s to know what files and folders are the biggest issue. At that point, even before you decide to log in to pinpoint the issue, you already know what the issue is. However, usually, this is done through things like PowerShell and Apprehended to tickets; however, that’s not always easy to see at a glance or visually make sense of. This is why our newest Disk Space Usage report for ConnectWise Automate helps show you an easy-to-view representation of the biggest files and largest folders. So, when that download folder becomes 1 terabyte big, you can tell the user to please go ahead and delete what’s in there.
