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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.