License Radar

A web dashboard for monitoring floating software licenses across RLM and FlexLM license servers. Built for VFX and animation studios running Nuke, Houdini, Cinema 4D, and similar tools.

Studios burn money on floating licenses. A seat expires without notice, an artist hits a wall mid-render, and IT is the last to know. License Radar gives you real-time visibility into utilization, who’s checked out what, and which licenses are about to expire — so you’re not reacting to outages at 2am.

What It Does

Connects to one or more RLM or FlexLM license servers and surfaces the data that matters: available seats, checked-out sessions, utilization percentage per product, and expiry timelines. Alerts fire when a product hits 90% or 100% utilization, when licenses are about to expire, or when a server goes offline.

Vendors supported out of the box: Foundry (Nuke, Mari, Modo), Maxon (Cinema 4D), SideFX (Houdini, Karma), Autodesk (3ds Max, Arnold), and others.

v1 (2023)

Started as a focused CLI + simple web UI. The goal was just to answer “is this license available right now?” without logging into five different license admin consoles. A login page, a dashboard, done.

v2 (2024)

The light-theme version that shipped to early users. Four-server support, sessions view, expiring-license tracking, vendor and contracts management. The alert system came in late v2 — configurable thresholds, email delivery, acknowledge-all workflow.

Alert history page showing high-utilization events across Foundry, Maxon, SideFX, and Autodesk servers simultaneously. Studios with 10+ concurrent products need this — you can’t watch every product manually.

v3 (In Progress)

Full dark-theme redesign. Cleaner information hierarchy, widget-based dashboard layout, faster query path against the license server APIs. The v2 schema carries over; the front end is being rebuilt.