Set Up Storacle
Setup takes a few minutes and one button. Press it today: Storacle can only measure the days the engine runs.
Why Today
A first projection needs two weeks of daily measurements, and your trial is 30 days. Show details Hide details
A day the engine does not run is a day that can never be measured
Each run records your storage as it stands that day. Storacle cannot go back and read a
day it missed, so every day before setup is a day with no measurement, and each day of
delay pushes your first projection out by a day.
14
daily measurements for a first projection
With fewer, Storacle reports that it does not have enough history yet rather than guessing.
30
measurements to sharpen a fast-growth forecast
Storage that is climbing quickly is the hardest to project. A month of measurements lets Storacle forecast it more accurately.
30
days of trial, counting install day
Installing starts a trial of the paid product, forecasting included. Pricing has the detail.
What that adds up to
- Set up on install day: the first projection arrives about two weeks in, leaving half the trial to judge it against your own org.
- Set up a week later: the first projection arrives around day 21, leaving about a week.
Measurement is free and carries on whether or not you buy, so your history is waiting whenever you do. Buying later cannot start that history any earlier.
Before You Start
Whoever schedules the engine becomes the engine: the nightly run works as that person. So they need these four permissions:
- Run Storacle Engine
- API Enabled
- View Setup and Configuration
- View Roles
If you installed Storacle as a System Administrator, you already hold all four: the profile carries the last three, and the install gave you the Storacle Administrator permission set, which carries Run Storacle Engine. If anyone is short of one, Storacle disables the button and names what is missing. The Permissions page says where each one comes from.
We recommend a dedicated engine user
The engine owns every record it creates, and if the user who scheduled it is deactivated, the nightly run stops. A user who exists only to run the engine keeps measurement independent of any one person's account. It needs no seat. Set the user up as the Permissions page describes, then sign in as them for the steps below.
Set Up in Three Steps
There is nothing to authorize by hand and no OAuth flow to walk through.
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1. Open the Setup section
Open Storacle from the App Launcher. Until the engine is scheduled, Storacle Home shows a banner saying Storacle will not collect storage metrics; press Review Engine Schedule. It opens the Setup section of Storacle Configuration, which reads Engine Not Running on a fresh install.
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2. Press Schedule the Engine
Storacle first asks you to confirm, because pressing it makes you the engine. Confirm with Run It as Me. Progress shows step by step, and if a step fails, its error appears on that step.
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3. Check that it reads Operational
Storacle checks itself when scheduling finishes. You are done when the banner is green and reads Operational. The line under it says when it last checked, and Confirm Operational Status checks again whenever you like. A healthy section folds away behind Show Detail; one that needs attention stays open.
After Setup
The engine measures once a day on its own, so there is nothing more to do. Leave the Engine toggle on Storacle Home switched on: turning it off stops measurement, and the days it is off cannot be measured later. How Storacle Works explains what each run does.
Storacle's code runs inside your Salesforce org, and its measurements stay there. The Security page has the detail.
If the banner reads Engine Not Running, Storacle is missing from your App Launcher, or Storacle says it is missing configuration, the Troubleshooting page shows what each message means and how to fix it.
Free, and What a Seat Adds
Your trial shows you the whole paid product. When it ends, the free tier keeps measuring.
Measurement - Free
- Storage measurement and snapshots
- The storage meter: current use against your org limits
- A chart of your storage use over time
- Record counts and sizes for every object
- Engine-health history and alerts
- Nightly and on-demand measurement
- No card required, and history keeps accruing whether you upgrade to the paid tier or not
Analysis, Forecasting, & Alerting
- Storage analysis views
- Storage growth forecasting
- Growth, utilization, forecast-limit, and renewal-readiness alerts
- Tuning settings, including alert thresholds and data retention
- Everything in the free tier
Pricing covers seats, the trial, and billing.