Background Users can configure the quota of the backend db size using flag --quota-backend-bytes. It’s the max number of bytes the etcd db file may consume, namely the ${etcd-data-dir}/member/snap/db file. Its default value is 2GB, and the suggested max value is 8GB. 2GB is usually sufficient for most use cases. If you run out of the db quota, you will see error message etcdserver: mvcc: database space exceeded when trying to write more data, and see alarm “NOSPACE” (see example below) ...