License Service Reporter

License Service Reporter is a free add-on service of IBM Cloud Pak foundational services. You can optionally install License Service Reporter and use it in single or multi-cluster environment.

You can view the following information using License Service Reporter:

  • IBM software deployments in a single dashboard to maintain the license compliance and avoid audit infractions
  • Historical data on IBM software deployments to make informed decisions for future purchases
  • Details about software deployments, including source (ILMT for VMs, License Service for containers), cluster and quantities of licenses deployed
  • Identify which software deployments are VMs vs. containers and can use this information to evaluate workloads for modernization.
Important: License Service Reporter is an individual component and you can upgrade License Service Reporter without the need to upgrade any other product. The upgrade does not affect any other products in any way.

What's new in the License Service Reporter version 4.x

License Service Reporter version 4.2.22 updates

License Service Reporter skipped one version to keep versioning in line with License Service for which a patch version 4.2.22 was released in May 2026.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.16 updates (June 2025)

  • Essential security updates.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.15 updates (May 2025)

  • Sorting and paging the workload details: - If you enable the technology preview: Workload visibility, you can sort and limit the number of displayed items per page on the License Service Reporter dashboard.

  • Essential security updates.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.14 updates (April 2025)

Filtering your license usage data by clusters: You can filter your license usage data on the License Service Reporter UI by clusters. You can select clusters to display and only view information about the license usage of products during peak periods on these clusters. You can see more information when you click the name of the product and view the deep dive.

Additionally, you can filter the /products API by clusters when you add and define the datasourceDbIds parameter to retrieve information about all products that are detected on the specified clusters. The filtered API retrieves the information about the total license usage on the specified clusters. For more information, see Viewing license usage on the Licensing dashboard and License Service Reporter Swagger API schema.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.13 updates (March 2025)

  • Essential security updates.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.11 updates (December 2024)

  • Essential security updates.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.10 updates (November 2024)

License Service Reporter version 4.2.9 updates (October 2024)

  • Essential security updates.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.8 updates (September 2024)

  • Essential security updates.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.7 updates (August 2024)

  • Essential security updates.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.6 updates (July 2024)

  • Storage options for License Service Reporter are updated: The list of supported storage options for License Service Reporter is updated for IBM Cloud Pak foundational services version 4.6.x and prior. For more information, see Storage options.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.4 updates (May 2024)

  • Essential security updates.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.3 updates

  • Adding annotations to License Service Reporter resources: You can add custom annotations to the ibm-license-service-reporter-operator resources automatically with the spec.annotations parameters. For more information, see Managing License Service Reporter metadata.

  • Customizing limits and requests of License Service Reporter resources: You can customize limits and requests of License Service Reporter resources by editing the License Service Reporter custom resource. For more information, see Customizing limits and requests of License Service Reporter resources.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.2 updates

  • Support for spec.labels parameter: License Service Reporter operator is updated to support the spec.labels parameter in the custom resources of the IBMLicenseServiceReporter. You can set the labels to the operand resources of the License Service Reporter such as Deployments, StatefulSets, Pods, Secrets, ConfigMaps, and Routes.

License Service Reporter version 4.2.1 updates

  • Deep dive panel: Deep dive panel in the Licensing dashboard is updated to view the individual services of the IBM Cloud Pak for Data Contributing services section that use the Virtual Processor Core (VPC).

License Service Reporter version 4.2.x updates

  • Support for multi-instance Cloud Pak.

  • Extended integration for User Authentication tools via OIDC protocol: You can configure the License Service Reporter to use the OAuth/OIDC provider with Identity Provider (IDP) as the authentication method to access the console.

  • Essential security updates.