# APM / Kibana Storage Allocation **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\ **Created:** [March 6, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-kibana-storage-allocation/171109 "2019-03-06T12:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JamesNotJamez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jamesnotjamez/32/45736_2.png) [@JamesNotJamez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JamesNotJamez)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-kibana-storage-allocation/171109/1 "2019-03-06T12:29:25Z")
Hi, I'm trying to work out the storage allocation of APM and Kibana instances, but this information isn't returned in any of the basic API calls (as far as I can see). I can work it out by getting the storage\_multiplier field from the instance configuration API, but this seems a bit long winded. Is there a quicker way I'm missing? Thanks, James ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Piggott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex_piggott/32/11053_2.png) [@Alex\_Piggott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Piggott)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-kibana-storage-allocation/171109/2 "2019-03-06T14:53:40Z")
No I think you're right you have to use the `storage_multiplier` unfortunately. I think the ES API gets the total capacity from `_node` calls which Kibana/APM doesn't have access to. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-kibana-storage-allocation/171109/3 "2019-03-20T14:53:48Z")
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