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Workspace DevOps Automation
Categories Deploy
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Created on Apr 5, 2026

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Getting Peak License Usage

We are occasionally asked to report our “peak” license usage.  This has historically been difficult to determine because there is no persistent history tracking agent license consumption.  While there is a high watermark metric (via getHighWatermarks) that captures a local maximum, it does not provide the historical views we need – such as weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly peaks.

It would be very helpful if the UI exposed historical high-watermark values.  

In the absence of native support, a possible workaround is to run a daily cron job (for example, at 11:59 PM) that invokes the REST API or CLI to retrieve the current value and append it to a file.  Over time, this would provide a usable historical record.

curl -u PasswordIsAuthToken:XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX https://your.deploy.server:8443/cli/agentCLI/usage >> agentHighwaterMarkHistory.out

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