consul_license_expiration_time.md 1.9 KB
Understand the alert
This alert checks the Consul Enterprise license expiration time. It triggers a warning if the license expiration time is less than 14 days, and critical if it's less than 7 days.
_consul.license_expirationtime: Monitors the remaining time in seconds until the Consul Enterprise license expires.
What is Consul?
Consul is a service mesh solution that enables organizations to discover services and safely process network traffic across dynamic, distributed environments.
Troubleshoot the alert
- Check the current license expiration time
You can check the remaining license expiration time for your Consul Enterprise instance using the Consul API:
curl http://localhost:8500/v1/operator/license
Look for the ExpirationTime field in the returned JSON output.
- Renew the license
If your license is about to expire, you will need to acquire a new license. Contact HashiCorp Support to obtain and renew the license key.
- Apply the new license
You can apply the new license key either by restarting Consul with the new key specified via the CONSUL_LICENSE environment variable or the license_path configuration option, or by updating the license through the Consul API:
curl -X PUT -d @new_license.json http://localhost:8500/v1/operator/license
Replace new_license.json with the path to a file containing the new license key in JSON format.
- Verify the new license expiration time
After applying the new license, you can check the new license expiration time using the Consul API again:
curl http://localhost:8500/v1/operator/license
Ensure that the ExpirationTime field shows the new expiration time.