Dashboard API Usage units kb or MB

[cmiarshvac]

I’m using the Meraki Dashboard API endpoint:

GET /organizations/{organizationId}/clients/overview

The response docs suggest the usage totals are in kb, but when I compare the API values to the Meraki daily summary email, the values appear to line up much more closely at a larger unit scale.

Example:
- API usage.total = 30959
- API usage.downstream = 22076
- API usage.upstream = 8882

Daily summary email for the same day shows:
- Total transferred = 30.47 GB
- Total downloaded = 21.54 GB
- Total uploaded = 8.93 GB

Has anyone confirmed the actual units returned by organization clients overview usage fields in practice?
Are these values really kb, MB, or some other normalized unit?

[aleabrahao · Accepted solution]

Although the official documentation mentions kb, I observed that the engineers state that the numbers correspond to MB when compared with the dashboard/summary reports.

It appears Meraki standardized some organization‑level usage metrics internally to MB but never updated the documentation for this endpoint.

[jletizia]

Hi @cmiarshvac! Thanks for letting us know about this! I just wanted to update here that we've gone ahead and resolved this issue! Cheers!

[Raphael_L]

Like mentionned by @jletizia  the fix was pushed on Monday around 8AM EST :