> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.datazone.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quotas

> Set limits and manage resource consumption with quotas

## Overview

Quotas allow you to set limits on resource consumption in your Datazone workspace. They help prevent unexpected usage, control costs, and ensure fair resource allocation across teams and projects.

## How Quotas Work

When you create a quota for a resource type (DCU, Tokens, Storage, Query, Action), Datazone monitors your usage and takes action based on consumption levels:

### Usage Thresholds

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**80% - Warning Notification**
When usage reaches 80% of the quota limit, you receive an email notification alerting you that you're approaching the limit.

**100% - Service Pause**
When usage exceeds the quota limit, your services are automatically paused to prevent further consumption. You'll need to either increase the quota or reduce usage to resume operations.

## Setting Up Quotas

When you create a quota, you choose a **resource type**, a **scope**, and a **limit**. The scope determines how broadly the limit is enforced — across the whole organisation, within a single project, per user, or for a specific parent entity such as an intelligent app or agent.

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### Scopes

A scope defines the boundary that a quota is measured and enforced against. Datazone supports the following scopes:

* **Organisation** - Applies the quota to the whole organisation. Usage is aggregated across every project, user, and app.
* **Project** - Limits usage only within a single project. You select the target project when creating the quota.
* **User** - Each user gets their own usage limit for the resource.
* **Parent Entity** - Limits usage for a specific app or agent (for example, an intelligent app or a single agent).

Not every resource supports every scope. The table below shows which scopes are available for each resource type:

| Resource         | Organisation | Project | User | Parent Entity (App / Agent) |
| ---------------- | :----------: | :-----: | :--: | :-------------------------: |
| **Hot Storage**  |       ✅      |    ✅    |   —  |              —              |
| **Cold Storage** |       ✅      |    ✅    |   —  |              —              |
| **DCU**          |       ✅      |    ✅    |   —  |              —              |
| **Query**        |       ✅      |    ✅    |   ✅  |              —              |
| **Action**       |       ✅      |    ✅    |   ✅  |              —              |
| **Tokens**       |       ✅      |    ✅    |   ✅  |              ✅              |

**Tokens** are the most flexible resource — they can be scoped all the way down to an intelligent app or an individual agent, in addition to organisation, project, and user levels.

#### Example: Project-scoped token limit

To cap LLM token consumption for a single project, choose the **Tokens** resource type, select the **Project** scope, pick the target project, and set a quota limit:

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In this example, the `SalesProject` project is limited to 100,000 tokens. Usage in other projects is unaffected by this quota.

### Supported Resources

You can set quotas for any of the following [resource types](/reference/platform/resources/overview):

* **DCU** - Datazone Compute Units (compute time)
* **TOKENS** - LLM token consumption
* **HOT\_STORAGE** - Relational database storage (MB)
* **COLD\_STORAGE** - Lakehouse/object storage (MB)
* **QUERY** - Total data scanned by queries (MB)
* **ACTION** - Number of action function executions