Audit File Sizes Before Deployment: A DevOps Engineer's Quick-Check Tool

Artifact sizes matter in CI/CD — oversized files slow Docker builds, inflate S3 storage costs, and hit API gateway payload limits without warning. Deliteful's File Size Report tool gives DevOps engineers a fast, format-agnostic size audit for any batch of files, returning exact byte counts and human-readable equivalents in a single .txt output.

When managing build artifacts, configuration bundles, or exported reports, engineers routinely need to verify file sizes before pushing to storage, CDN, or deployment pipelines. A ZIP that exceeds a Lambda layer limit or a JSON payload over a gateway threshold can silently break a deployment. A quick size report before upload catches these issues in seconds rather than after a failed pipeline run.

Deliteful handles up to 50 files per batch across a wide range of formats including ZIP, JSON, PDF, CSV, and images. The report output uses base-1024 units consistent with Linux's du command and most cloud storage consoles. Source files are never modified — this is a read-only metadata operation.

How it works

  1. 1

    Create a free account

    Sign in with Google — takes about 3 clicks, no credit card needed.

  2. 2

    Upload your artifact batch

    Drop in up to 50 files of any supported format, up to 2 GB total.

  3. 3

    Generate the report

    Deliteful returns a tab-separated .txt file listing each filename, raw byte count, and human-readable size.

  4. 4

    Validate against your size constraints

    Compare reported sizes against your deployment limits, storage quotas, or transfer thresholds before proceeding.

Frequently asked questions

Is the file size report output compatible with shell scripting or log ingestion?
Yes. The output is a plain .txt file with tab-separated values: filename, byte count, and human-readable size. It can be parsed with awk, grep, or any standard text processing tool.
Does the tool support ZIP and JSON files?
Yes. ZIP and JSON are both supported input formats alongside PDF, CSV, Excel, DOCX, TXT, and common image formats.
What is the maximum batch size?
You can upload up to 50 files per batch with a combined total of up to 2 GB. Individual file limits vary by format: up to 500 MB for CSV, 300 MB for PDF, 200 MB for Excel, and 50 MB for ZIP, JSON, and other formats.
Are files stored after the report is generated?
Deliteful uses temporary cloud storage (Cloudflare R2) during processing. Files are not retained after your session ends.

Sign in with Google to create your free Deliteful account and run a size audit on your deployment artifacts right now.