Activate an Enterprise license

To download your Grafana Enterprise license:

Sign in to your account.
Go to My Account and select an organization from the drop-down menu at the top left of the page. On the Overview page for each organization, you can see a section for Grafana Enterprise licenses. Click Details next to a license.

There is more than one way to add the license to a Grafana instance:

This is the preferred option for single instance installations of Grafana Enterprise.

Sign in as a Grafana server administrator.
Navigate to Server Admin > Upgrade within Grafana.
Click Upload license token file.
Select your license file, and upload it.

You can also configure a custom location for the license file using the grafana.ini setting:

This setting can also be set with an environment variable, which is useful if you’re running Grafana with Docker and have a custom volume where you have placed the license file. In this case, set the environment variable to point to the location of your license file.

You can add a license by pasting the content of the license.jwt to the grafana.ini configuration file:

Update the in your configuration. It should be the URL that users type in their browsers to access the frontend, not the node hostname(s).

This is important, because as part of the validation checks at startup, Grafana compares the license URL to the root_url in your configuration.

In your configuration file:

To finalize the installation of Grafana Enterprise, restart Grafana to enable all Grafana Enterprise features. Refer to restart Grafana for more information.