Hello, I am running a Nexus OSS v3.78.1-02 installation. Since last week, I’ve been getting a banner saying that my instance is getting too big, and I need to add a licence or reduce the number of artefacts. I have decided in favour of the latter. I was able to delete many artefacts (most of them f…

Hi Max, Our team has looked into this. This is not a counting issue, but a database corruption issue. Our recommendation is to delete and re-create your NuGet proxy repositories to fix the data corruption issues found in your database. Hope this helps! Best regards, Grace

Did you try to reindex the repositories? I would try that if I were you. A lot of information gets taken from the index.

Hi, Max, All the advice we have about managing/reducing usage is in our documentation: https://help.sonatype.com/en/usage-metrics.html https://help.sonatype.com/en/usage-center.html https://help.sonatype.com/en/keeping-disk-usage-low.html Based off your explanation, the issue may be that you ha…

Hey, thanks for the answers. I have re-indexed all NuGet repos. I also ran these Compact Blob Stores jobs and they run automatically every night. To show this I have attached the extra screenshot. I am aware that the statistics only update every hour. However, it has not moved significantly since …

Hello again, what else can I do? Any recommendations other than the given ones? In the meantime, we’ve created a script which consults the Nexus API to list all artifacts in all versions. This script also confirms, that we do not hit the artifacts limit. Can I trigger a VACUUM or clean-up for the…

Hi Max, Thanks for bringing this to our awareness. Have you tried restarting your Nexus repository instance?

Hi Grace, yes multiple times. We are shutting down the instance every night to backup the blobs-directory to prevent file access during this time.

Usage metrics counts are much higher than blob counts

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Maximilian_Raab (Maximilian Raab) March 20, 2025, 12:54pm 9

Hi Grace,

deleting and recreating did indeed fix this issue. The banner is also gone now.
Thanks a lot!

Kind regards,
Max.

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