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License usage

A report that displays the percentage of licenses used concurrently over time, along with detailed breakdowns of concurrent usage per feature. It helps monitor peak demand and identify heavily used license features.

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This table displays the feature-wise maximum concurrent license usage and the percentage of total available licenses, with drilldown capability to assess license utilization efficiency.

Visualizations​

  • Percentage of Concurrent Licenses Used from Total Available Licenses Heatmap: This visual shows the concurrent license usage as a percentage of total number of licenses available for each feature across every hour of a day belonging to different usage dates. This matrix helps identify peak load times and periods of underutilization.

Values displayed:

  • Feature names
  • Hour columns: Represents each hour of the day (0-23).
  • Date Rows: Represents different usage dates.
  • Concurrent Usage Percentage Cells: The concurrent usage percentage shows how much of the total available licenses users consumed during that hour for a given feature and usage date. Calculate the percentage by dividing the maximum concurrent usage by the total number of licenses available and then multiplying by 100.

Cells are shaded on a continuous green-to-red scale, so saturation is visible at a glance:

  • Low usage shades green, and rises through yellow-green as consumption grows.
  • Mid-range usage shades amber to orange.
  • Usage approaching the full pool shades orange-red, and 100% consumption - no remaining capacity - shades solid red.

Each feature is a collapsible row group. Expand a feature to see one row per usage date, and use the horizontal scrollbar to reach the later hours of the day.

  • Max Concurrent Usage and Available Licenses by Date: An area chart that tracks maximum concurrent usage against the available pool day by day over the selected period, so you can see when demand peaked.

Values displayed:

  • Date (Day): X-axis.

  • Max Concurrent Usage

  • Max Available Licenses

  • Max Concurrent Usage and Available Licenses by Feature: This area chart compares the available licenses and the maximum concurrent usage for each feature. The X-axis lists the feature names and the Y-axis shows license counts. The chart highlights features where the purchased pool far exceeds real demand. Users can drill down to compare these metrics across years, quarters, months, days, and hours for deeper analysis.

Values displayed:

  • Feature Name: X-axis.

  • Time: Drilldown categories.

  • Max Concurrent Usage

  • Max Available Licenses

  • Filters:

  • Date: A relative date filter. It defaults to Last 14 days and prints the resolved range underneath (for example, 2026/07/11 to 2026/07/24). Select another preset, or a custom start and end date, to change the reporting period.

  • Server Name: Users can select any server name from this filter.

  • Vendor: Users can select any vendor from this filter.

  • License Type: Users can select any license type from this filter.

  • Additional Key: Users can select any additional key from this filter.

  • Feature Name: Users can select any feature name from this filter.

  • Product Name: Users can select any product name from this filter.

  • Version: Users can select any version from this filter.

  • Software Name: Select a catalogued product from the SAM Catalog. The catalog normalizes publisher and product names, so filtering here groups license records that carry inconsistent raw license strings.

License Usage Details​

The drill-through detail behind this report has its own sheet and its own page - see License usage details.

Interpreting this report​

  • The heatmap is where bottlenecks and habits become visible. A solid red band across working hours means an exhausted pool for hours at a time - expect matching entries in Denials. Red confined to 1 or 2 cells is a short peak, which extra licenses rarely improve.
  • Green rows are money on the table. A feature whose whole heatmap stays green through the review period is a candidate for reducing seats at renewal - confirm with License utilization, which quantifies exactly how many seats the demand needed.
  • In the 2 area charts, the gap between Max Available Licenses and Max Concurrent Usage is your headroom. A gap that never closes is over-provisioning; a gap that touches zero on the date chart tells you the day demand hit the ceiling.
  • The Version 25 equivalent report offered the same 3 readings (table, chart, heatmap); its guidance still applies here: long date ranges give statistically meaningful patterns, short ones show incidents (Version 25 reference).
Last updated on by Maria Gilca