On 2/3/14 12:16 AM, Heiko Krämer wrote: > Hi Pragya, > > you can set account and container quotas with a ResellerAdmin user. > http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/middleware.html?highlight=quota#module-swift.common.middleware.account_quotas > > > to find out how much a user have in use you need ceilometer. You don't need ceilometer for that; a simple account HEAD request will do. The response will contain a header X-Account-Bytes-Used, and its value will be the sum of the sizes of all objects in the account (subject to eventual consistency, of course).