Extend etcd quota

[maelamrani]

Hello,

how can i extend the quota of my etcd

i added ETCD_QUOTA_BACKEND_BYTES=18589934592 in /etc/etcd.env and restart the service ?
but when i do

ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints=127.0.0.1:2379 \

--cert=/etc/ssl/etcd/ssl/node.pem
--key=/etc/ssl/etcd/ssl/node-by.pem
--cacert=/etc/ssl/etcd/ssl/ca.pem
endpoint status --write-out=json | jq .[].Status.quota
null

i get null ?

someone can help me

thx in advance

[jmhbnz]

Hey @maelamrani - Looking at your etcdctl command it looks like a minor type in your jq filter, for me the correct command was ./etcdctl endpoint status --write-out=json | jq '.[].Status.dbSizeQuota'

{"level":"warn","ts":"2025-05-01T08:44:31.917392+1200","caller":"storage/quota.go:107","msg":"quota exceeds the maximum value","quota-name":"v3-applier","quota-size-bytes":18589934592,"quota-size":"19 GB","quota-maximum-size-bytes":8589934592,"quota-maximum-size":"8.6 GB"}
{"level":"info","ts":"2025-05-01T08:44:31.917478+1200","caller":"storage/quota.go:116","msg":"enabled backend quota","quota-name":"v3-applier","quota-size-bytes":18589934592,"quota-size":"19 GB"} 

 ➜ ./etcdctl endpoint status --write-out=json | jq '.[].Status.dbSizeQuota'
18589934592