topic Re: License count per application in Splunk AppDynamics

License count per application

CommunityUser — Thu, 18 May 2017 13:31:45 GMT

With a SAAS controler, how can i get a clear report of how many licences are consumed by application ? I dont need the speed dials that tell me how many licenses are consumed total.

What i need is the license count per actual application that i have created in appDynamics. We need this to figure out what is the cost per application.

Any ideas ?

Re: License count per application

Brian_Wheeldon — Wed, 31 May 2017 15:08:18 GMT

There's a very nice license report generator on Github that produces an Excel spreadsheet that meets your needs and more.

Attaching an example of the output report, generated using a script like this:

#!/bin/bash

_DATE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
_FILE=demo1_LicenseCount_${_DATE}.xlsx

echo Creating the report ${_FILE}

java -Xmx1024m -cp "execLib/*" org.appdynamics.licensecount.CountLicenses -cdemo1.appdynamics.com -P443 -usome_user -p<not_this_password> -acustomer1 -s -i15 -n -f ${_FILE}

Re: License count per application

CommunityUser — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:49:18 GMT

Did you find out how to do this?

I am also trying to calculate license usage per application.

Thanks

Virender

Re: License count per application

CommunityUser — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:58:36 GMT

Hi,

The report at: https://github.com/Appdynamics/AppDLicenseCount works well with the default options BUT when you generate the report for a period over 7 days then the numbers are no longer accurate.

I asked the developer about it and am awaiting new information

Re: License count per application

CommunityUser — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:47:36 GMT

Are there any plans to incorporate this functionality into the GUI itself?

I'd also be interested in seeing license usage at a Tier level as well as App.

Re: License count per application

Deena_Shanghavi — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:44:31 GMT

No there has been no huge demand to report License count per application in GUI. As per seeing license usage at a Tier level, you can actually go to the application flow diagram and see how many java agents etc. are being used for the time span you're interested in.

Re: License count per application

CommunityUser — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:24:45 GMT

Thanks, @Brian.Wheeldon @Brian.Wheeldon.

Hi @Anonymous and @Anonymous

We also recommend referring to the following KB articles for more information on Licenses:

How does AppDynamics license consumption work?

What are some best practices for license management?

How do I check my license usage at the account level?

Hope it helps.

Re: License count per application

Umervali_Niyama — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:33:35 GMT

I think getting the license usage per application is extremely useful not sure why there is no demand when I spoke to many customer in the conference they did the say the same.

Re: License count per application

fred999 — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:25:33 GMT

So how do i run this on SAAS ? Thats what the question is about from the beginning.

Re: License count per application

millerep — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:14:13 GMT

You should be able to just click on the cog wheel in the top-right hand corner, then click on "Licenses" and see how many you have and how many are taken up by all your agents. If you want it slightly more broken down such as what agents you have out there on which servers, you can click on the cog wheel and then "AppDynamics Agents," but it takes a little more clicking around. If you don't see "Licenses" or "AppDynamics Agents" when you click on the cog wheel you need your Controller admin to give you the correct permissions.

Re: License count per application

Apmosys_IET — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 04:40:54 GMT

How can I get same report for on premises controller?

Re: License count per application

iamryan — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:48:07 GMT

Hi @Apmosys.IET,

Please check out this documentation here: https://community.appdynamics.com/t5/Knowledge-Base/How-do-I-find-license-usage-by-applications-for-each-Controller/ta-p/24128

Let me know if it helps.

Re: License count per application

Simon_Parish — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:18:02 GMT

How do we get the raw data out of the SaaS controller. the screen gives a good overview, but we need to do some digging into our data and would like to be able to get this out and import it into a google sheet

Re: License count per application

iamryan — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:12:26 GMT

Hi @Simon.Parish,

What kind of raw data are you looking to get out of the SaaS Controller?

Re: License count per application

Simon_Parish — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 08:48:01 GMT

Hi @Ryan.Paredez
We'd like to get account usage for each access key we have in our SaaS controllers over time as we need to do some analysis work and the display of the information in the licensing screen doesn't really allow that.

Also in the documentation for getting the information via the API, it all shows username and password. does this also work with api clients and secrets as the documentation and examples don't sow this.

Thanks,
Simon

Re: License count per application

Aaron_Schifman — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:58:57 GMT

@Simon.Parish Are you familiar with setting up rules to understand account usage and only needing support for the second question around API?

For account usage, you can setup a rule with a set number of allowed units, to see who is consuming what. You can refer to our license doc on the subject for more info.

As for the API part...I assume you can, though I have not personally tried, use something like Postman to leverage auth and variables as you would generally do. Can't see why you should have to clear text passwords but perhaps the docs were to make it easy for users who do not know how to leverage API tools.

Re: License count per application

Simon_Parish — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 10:11:49 GMT

@Aaron.Schifman Yes we have rules set up, but we also want access to the information. Also we'd like to be able to find which instances/nodes are associated with which license key - again is this also possible?

Re: License count per application

Aaron_Schifman — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:06:54 GMT

@Simon.Parish

What API reference document are you leveraging?

From what I can see, licensing is not broken down by instances/nodes. Assuming you are talking about infrastructure based licensing, you can get the number and types of agents, and applications, but nothing deeper.

What is it that you are trying to achieve by getting going down to the node?

Re: License count per application

Simon_Parish — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 09:09:51 GMT

@Aaron.Schifman
I'm using this document
But it still refers to using username and password - which you can no longer setup and so does this actually work for using secrets and if so then could someone update the documents - when I go tot the URLS it states using postman I keep gettiing 404 errors when trying the 'Returns a Summary of All the License Rules for the Current Account' url.
If I can get the applications linked to a license then that should be enough, but even getting the first piece of information out of the system is proving troublesome

Re: License count per application

Simon_Parish — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 09:46:57 GMT

@Aaron.Schifman
We are also using the agent based usage model so really there isn't anything of any use that we can get from this API. Even though the controller clearly shows graphs of the number of licenses used over time, this data isn't available via the API. WHY?