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Azure DevOps–Why is my database so big?

When preparing an Azure DevOps Server migration, the customer asked me why there Azure Devops databases grew so fast.

There are 2 queries that can help you answer this question.

  • The first query gives a general overview of the different parts:

The output of the first query returned the following results in this case:

Owner BlobSizeInMb
VersionCVersionControl 64992.008339881835
FileContainer 59599.479797363281
TeamTest 44243.018857001953
WorkItemTracking 23674.237445831054
CodeSense 989.945262908203
ProcessTemplate 125.949053763671
Generic 54.288738250000
  • The second query goes in more detail to differentiate between source control and build:

The output of the second query returned the following results in this case:

FileContainerOwner TotalSizeInMb
Build 56681.754142760742

Git

 875.809092521484

vstfs:///Rele

 683.627062796875

pipelines://b

 271.543574333007

DistributedTask

 1.143143653320

They started storing there build artifacts in the database, this explained why there Azure DevOps databases exploded so much.

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