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Licensing Monitoring

Netdata tracks the license state of your network devices — what's entitled, how much is used, and when it expires — so a license doesn't quietly lapse and disable a feature you depend on.

What Netdata tracks​

For devices that expose licensing over SNMP:

  • Time to expiry — the earliest license, authorization, certificate, and grace-period timers.
  • Usage — how much of a licensed pool is consumed.
  • State — healthy, informational, degraded, broken, or ignored, per license.

These appear as live charts and in the snmp:licenses function — a per-device table of every license with its state and remaining time.

Which vendors​

Licensing telemetry comes up automatically with the device's profile, for the vendors that ship dedicated licensing telemetry over SNMP — Check Point, Fortinet, Cisco (including Smart Licensing), Sophos, Blue Coat ProxySG, and MikroTik.

Alerts​

Stock alerts on licensing health — an approaching expiry, a license moving into a degraded or broken state, and a licensed pool filling up.

Where to start​

  • Licensing comes up automatically when you monitor a device that reports it — open its charts or the snmp:licenses function.

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