Observe License Usage

For Infrastructure-based Licensing models , licensing unit consumption for an application is based on the number of CPU cores. License units are allocated to application hosts through the single metering unit of CPU cores, based on the configured license rules. See Observe License Usage.

To view license availability and usage information for the application:

  1. In the Controller UI, from the top navigation bar, select Analytics.
  2. Select Configuration from the left panel.
  3. Go to the Transaction Analytics - Configuration tab.
  4. Under the Analytics column, hover over the icon to view details regarding license availability. There are three representations of license availability: healthy availability, availability warning, and none available.
  5. For Healthy Availability, the green check icon appears when the number of available license units for an application is greater than or equal to the number of license units required.
    1. When Analytics is not yet enabled for an application, hovering over the green check icon will display license Units Available andUnits Required.
    2. When Analytics is successfully enabled for an application, hovering over the green check icon will display the number of potential license units that will be freed up (Potential Units Freed Up) when you disable Analytics for the application. For applications that are sharing hosts, the number of potential license units that will be freed up can be less than the number of license units consumed.
    CAUTION: For Application Analytics, if more than one licensing rule is available for the hosts associated with an application, the license availability displayed in the Controller UI is the sum of the available license units across licensing rules. Splunk AppDynamics recommends that Controller Administrators configure one license rule per application.
  6. For Availability Warning, the yellow triangle warning icon appears when the number of available license units is less than the number of required license units. Hover over the icon to view Units Available and Units Required.
    1. Analytics can be enabled for an application from the Controller UI when the number of available license units is less than required, but business transactions are collected only when there are enough available license units.
    2. The Controller Administrator can update the corresponding license rule configuration to allocate more license units, or the Analytics Administrator can release license units by disabling Analytics on unused applications.
    Note: Disabling Analytics for specific business transactions does not free up the license units that are consumed. In order to free up consumed license units for an application, Analytics must be disabled at the application level.
  7. For None Available, the red square icon appears when there are no valid units of license package with the Transaction Analytics feature allocated for the application, based on the configured license rules.