Some risks are genuinely unpredictable. This is not one of them. A database that is growing steadily, on storage that is fixed, will run out of room. You can see it coming. You can, quite literally, put a date on it. And organisations still get caught by it, every year, because nobody was looking at the one graph that mattered.
It is the most foreseeable failure there is. The data grows at a fairly steady rate. The disk is a fixed size. Draw the line forward and it meets the ceiling on a particular week, months from now, in plain view of anyone tracking it. When it hits, the database stops, and it stops at the least convenient moment, because the workload that finally fills the disk is usually a busy day.
The same is true of other limits that creep up predictably: a licence tier you are about to exceed, a data type quietly approaching its maximum value, a log that grows a little every cycle. None of these are surprises. They are appointments you have not put in the calendar.
Do you know, for your most important databases, the date each one runs out of road, on current trends? If that question has no answer, it is not because the answer is unknowable. It is because nobody has drawn the line.
We run a free, read-only check that does exactly that: looks at the trends and tells you which walls you are heading for, and roughly when. Foreseeable problems are the cheapest kind to fix. All it takes is looking before the week arrives.
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