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Obtain a license

How you obtain a license depends on the type:
  • Enterprise — for production deployments running Console, Gateway or both. The same key applies to both products. Contact Conduktor sales to start the process.
  • Gateway Community Edition — a free license for Gateway as a Kafka-managed passthrough proxy, without Interceptors, Virtual Clusters or other Gateway-managed features. Applied via GATEWAY_LICENSE_KEY. Find out more about Gateway Community Edition.

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Apply your license

Set the license as an environment variable in your Gateway configuration:
.env
GATEWAY_LICENSE_KEY="<YOUR_GATEWAY_LICENSE>"

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Verify your license

Check the expiry of the license used to launch Gateway by looking at the startup logs: 
2026-05-20T14:38:09.961+0000 [main] [INFO] [ConfiguredLicenseService:57] - Loaded license with expiry: 2027-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

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Update your license

To update your license, set the GATEWAY_LICENSE_KEY environment variable to the new value and re-deploy the Conduktor Gateway container.

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Monitor license expiration

Gateway exposes a Prometheus metric to track the number of days remaining before license expiration: gateway_license_remaining_days. You can set up monitoring alerts on this metric to proactively manage license renewals. Check out the metrics reference.