> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.conduktor.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Manage your Gateway license

> Obtain, apply, verify and update your Conduktor Gateway license.

## 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](https://conduktor.io/contact) 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](/guide/conduktor-in-production/manage-licenses/gateway-community-edition).

## Apply your license

Set the license as an environment variable in your Gateway configuration:

```js title=".env" theme={null}
GATEWAY_LICENSE_KEY="<YOUR_GATEWAY_LICENSE>"
```

## Verify your license

Check the expiry of the license used to launch Gateway by looking at the startup logs:

```md theme={null}
2026-05-20T14:38:09.961+0000 [main] [INFO] [ConfiguredLicenseService:57] - Loaded license with expiry: 2027-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
```

## 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.

## 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](/guide/reference/gateway-metrics).