Licensing: Document new v7.4 options and APIs (#30217)

Co-authored-by: Diana Payton <52059945+oddlittlebird@users.noreply.github.com>

docs/sources/enterprise/activate-license.md

@@ -11,22 +11,30 @@ Follow these steps to activate your Grafana Enterprise license:
 
 ## Step 1. Download your license file
 
-To download your Grafana Enterprise license, log in to your [Grafana Cloud Account](https://grafana.com) and go to your **Org Profile**. In the side menu there is a section for Grafana Enterprise licenses. At the bottom of the license details page there is **Download Token** link that will download the license.jwt file containing your license.
+To download your Grafana Enterprise license:
 
-## Step 2. Add your license file to a Grafana instance
+  1. Log in to your [Grafana Cloud Account](https://grafana.com).
+  1. Go to your **Org Profile**.
+  1. Go to the section for Grafana Enterprise licenses in the side menu.
+  1. At the bottom of the license details page there is **Download Token** link that will download the *license.jwt* file containing your license to your computer.
 
-There are two different ways to add the license file to a Grafana instance:
+## Step 2. Add your license to a Grafana instance
 
-- Option 1: Upload the license file through the Grafana Server Administrator page
+There are three different ways to add the license to a Grafana instance:
+
+### Upload the license file through the Grafana Server Administrator page
+
+  This is the preferred option for single instance installations of
+  Grafana Enterprise. 
 
   1. Sign in as a Grafana server admin.
   1. Navigate to **Server Admin > Upgrade** within Grafana. 
   1. Click **Upload license token file**.
   1. Select your license file, and upload it.
 
-- Option 2: Place the *license.jwt* file in Grafana's data folder.
+### Place the license.jwt file in Grafana's data folder
 
-  This is usually located at `/var/lib/grafana` on Linux systems.
+  The data folder is usually `/var/lib/grafana` on Linux systems.
 
   You can also configure a custom location for the license file using the grafana.ini setting:
 
@@ -37,7 +45,20 @@ There are two different ways to add the license file to a Grafana instance:
 
   This setting can also be set with an environment variable, which is useful if you're running Grafana with Docker and have a custom volume where you have placed the license file. In this case, set the environment variable `GF_ENTERPRISE_LICENSE_PATH` to point to the location of your license file.
 
-## Step 3. Ensure that the license file's root url matches the root_url configuration option
+### Set the content of the license file as a configuration option
+
+  You can add a license by pasting the content of the `license.jwt`
+  to the grafana.ini configuration file:
+
+  ```bash
+  [enterprise]
+  license_text = eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0aGlzIjoiaXMiLCJub3QiOiJhIiwidmFsaWQiOiJsaWNlbnNlIn0.bxDzxIoJlYMwiEYKYT_l2s42z0Y30tY-6KKoyz9RuLE
+  ```
+  
+  This option can be set using the `GF_ENTERPRISE_LICENSE_TEXT`
+  environment variable.
+
+## Step 3. Ensure that the license file's root URL matches the root_url configuration option
 
 Update the [`root_url`]({{< relref "../administration/configuration/#root-url" >}}) in your configuration. It should be the URL that users type in their browsers to access the frontend, not the node hostname(s).
 
@@ -55,3 +76,11 @@ Or with an environment variable:
 ```
 GF_SERVER_ROOT_URL=https://grafana.blah.com/
 ```
+
+## Step 4. Restart Grafana
+
+To finalize the installation of Grafana Enterprise, restart Grafana to
+enable all Grafana Enterprise features.
+
+On Linux, when installed as a Systemd service you can restart Grafana
+by running `sudo systemctl restart grafana-server.service`.

docs/sources/enterprise/enterprise-configuration.md

@@ -9,6 +9,31 @@ weight = 300
 
 This page describes Grafana Enterprise-specific configuration options that you can specify in a `.ini` configuration file or using environment variables. Refer to [Configuration]({{< relref "../administration/configuration.md" >}}) for more information about available configuration options.
 
+## [enterprise]
+
+### license_path
+
+Local filesystem path to Grafana Enterprise's license file.
+Defaults to `<paths.data>/license.jwt`.
+
+### license_text
+
+> **Note:** Available in Grafana Enterprise v7.4+.
+
+When set to the text representation (i.e. content of the license file)
+of the license, Grafana will evaluate and apply the given license to
+the instance.
+
+### auto_refresh_license
+
+> **Note:** Available in Grafana Enterprise v7.4+.
+
+When enabled, Grafana will send the license and usage statistics to
+the license issuer. If the license has been updated on the issuer's
+side to be valid for a different number of users or a new duration,
+your Grafana instance will be updated with the new terms
+automatically. Defaults to `true`.
+
 ## [white_labeling]
 
 ### app_title

docs/sources/http_api/licensing.md

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
++++
+title = "Licensing HTTP API "
+description = "Grafana Licensing HTTP API"
+keywords = ["grafana", "http", "documentation", "api", "licensing", "enterprise"]
+aliases = ["/docs/grafana/latest/http_api/licensing/"]
++++
+
+> Licensing is only available in Grafana Enterprise. Read more about [Grafana Enterprise]({{< relref "../enterprise" >}}).
+
+## Manually force license refresh
+
+> **Note:** Available in Grafana Enterprise v7.4+.
+
+`POST /api/licensing/token/renew`
+
+Manually ask license issuer for a new token.
+
+**Example request:**
+
+```http
+POST /api/licensing/token/renew
+Accept: application/json
+Content-Type: application/json
+Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk
+
+{}
+```
+
+**Example response:**
+
+```http
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Content-Type: application/json
+Content-Length: 357
+
+{
+  "jti":"2",
+  "iss":"https://grafana.com",
+  "sub":"https://play.grafana.org/"
+  "lid":"1",
+  "included_admins":5,
+  "included_viewers":10,
+  "lic_exp_warn_days":30,
+  "tok_exp_warn_days":2,
+  "update_days":1,
+  "prod":["grafana-enterprise"],
+  "company":"Grafana Labs"
+}
+```
+
+The response is a JSON blob available for debugging purposes. The
+available fields may change at any time without any prior notice.
+
+Status Codes:
+
+- **200** - OK
+- **401** - Unauthorized
+- **403** - Access denied
+
+## Remove license from database
+
+> **Note:** Available in Grafana Enterprise v7.4+.
+
+`DELETE /api/licensing/token`
+
+Removes the license stored in the Grafana database.
+
+**Example request:**
+
+```http
+DELETE /api/licensing/token
+Accept: application/json
+Content-Type: application/json
+Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk
+
+{"instance": "http://play.grafana.org/"}
+```
+
+JSON Body schema:
+
+- **instance** – Root URL for the instance for which the license should be deleted. Required.
+
+**Example response:**
+
+```http
+HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
+Content-Type: application/json
+Content-Length: 2
+
+{}
+```
+
+Status codes:
+
+- **202** - Accepted, license removed or did not exist.
+- **401** - Unauthorized
+- **403** - Access denied
+- **422** - Unprocessable entity, incorrect instance name provided.