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title: "show capacity"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/nios86/35822392/show%20capacity"
format: markdown
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The `show`` ``capacity` command displays database capacity limits for your NIOS appliance. This allows you to see the object counts and types on a member. This command is useful to see the amount of data is assigned to a member and how that relates to the member's specified capacity.

# Syntax

`show capacity`

This command has no arguments.

# Example

`Infoblox > ``show`` ``capacity`  
` Hardware Type = IB-2000`  
` Database Capacity = 1200000 "objects" `  
`Objects Present = 112466 (9 percent used)`  
` Count   Area        Type`  
` 16638   dns         bind_a`  
` 15000   dns         bind_cname`  
` 1000   dns         bind_mx`  
` 19392   dns         bind_ns`  
` 15501   dns         bind_ptr`  
`  836   dns         bind_soa`  
`  500   dns         bulk_host`  
` 5000   dns         dhcp_host`  
`  385   dns         dhcp_member`  
`  322   dns         dhcp_range`  
` 1538   dns         fixed_address`  
` 5000   dns         host`  
` 5000   dns         host_address`  
` 5000   dns         host_alias`  
`  265   dns         network`  
`  263   dns         shared_network_item`  
`  500   dns         srg_zone_linking `  
`  840   dns         zone`  
` 18018   dns         zone_cluster_secondary_server`  
`  537   dns         zone_ext_secondary_server`  
`  208   Grid        product_license `  
` Note: Counts per object type not displayed unless at least 100 of that type exist. `