{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "id": "operate/radar/licenses-and-certificates",
  "title": "Licenses and certificates",
  "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/radar/licenses-and-certificates/",
  "summary": "Track license and certificate expiry across your fleet.",
  "tags": [
    "docs",
    "operate",
    "radar"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-09-06T07:25:30-05:00",
  "page_type": "content",
  "content_hash": "94b68daef3f5f106dc8416dca737a9d467ab5c9b0fc529b1331f30adc33c8fe9",
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "overview",
      "title": "Overview",
      "role": "overview",
      "text": "Certificates expire per cluster, so the more clusters you run, the more likely one of them is close to expiring without anyone noticing. Licenses usually share a single expiry date across the fleet, so for licenses the number that changes is consumption, not the date. Radar collects both across the whole fleet and lists them by expiry date, so you find out before a customer does.\n\nRadar presents licenses and certificates as two lists that work the same way. Every row carries a status:\n\n| Status | Meaning |\n|---|---|\n| Valid | Not close to expiry. No action required. |\n| Expiring | Expires within 30 days. |\n| Expired | Past its expiration date. Renew immediately. |\n\nYou can filter either list by status to see only what needs attention."
    },
    {
      "id": "licenses",
      "title": "Licenses",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "The **Licenses** view lists every cluster's license with its expiration date, how many days remain, and how much of the license you are consuming.\n\nRadar reports shard usage against the licensed limit, broken out by type:\n\n- Total shards in use, against the licensed shard limit.\n- RAM shards in use, against their limit.\n- Flex shards in use, against their limit.\n\nRadar also shows a fleet-wide total, so you can see aggregate headroom without adding up rows, and you can export the list as CSV. Usage matters as much as the date: a license that does not expire for a year can still stop you from adding a database next week.\n\nA license changed on the cluster shows up in Radar at its next collection.\n\n![images/radar/licenses.png](https://redis.io/docs/latest/images/radar/licenses.png)"
    },
    {
      "id": "certificates",
      "title": "Certificates",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "The **Certificates** view lists each cluster's certificates by type, with the expiration date and days remaining. One cluster can have several, such as `Api_cert`, `Cm_cert`, `Metrics_exporter_cert`, `Proxy_cert`, and `Syncer_cert`.\n\nA certificate renewed on the cluster shows up in Radar with its new expiration date at the next collection.\n\n![images/radar/certificates.png](https://redis.io/docs/latest/images/radar/certificates.png)"
    },
    {
      "id": "next-steps",
      "title": "Next steps",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "- [Manage access](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/radar/manage-access)\n- [Connect clusters](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/radar/connect)"
    }
  ],
  "examples": []
}