Audit my database storage usage and reclaim wasted space. Start by ranking tables or collections by size; the answer is almost always surprising. Investigate the usual sources: log and event tables that were never meant to live forever (route them into the retention cleanup jobs if they're not already); dead rows and index bloat from heavy update/delete churn (Postgres needs vacuum analysis; other databases have their equivalents); oversized payloads stored inline (base64 files in text columns, huge JSON blobs) that belong in object storage with a reference; and indexes that nothing uses, which cost both writes and disk. For each finding, apply the fix: purge, archive, move to storage, drop the unused index, or run the database's maintenance routine. Check before deleting anything: report what you found and how old it is. Don't run heavy maintenance (vacuum full, index rebuilds) during traffic; schedule it. Don't drop an index without confirming no query uses it. Deliver: the size ranking before and after, each finding with the fix applied, and the ongoing maintenance schedule so bloat doesn't quietly rebuild.