Hi, Once the license expires this is what happens . I am interested in this part. # Commercial plugins operate with reduced functionality on license expiration: # - security What changes with respect to security. There was no elaboration on this part anywhere in documentation. Or if I have misse…

I think this explains : https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/license-expiration.html

This is the same link which I have put in my question. But security part which I have highlighted is rather cryptic. Anywhere I can find any elaboration?

Sorry. On a mobile and i didn't see your link. It says: Once the license expires, calls to the cluster health, cluster stats, and index stats APIs fail with a security_exception and return a 403 HTTP status code. Is there anything unclear with this sentence?

Kibana did not start after I advanced the system date to simulate license expiry. That is more context to people who are new to this. I knew Monitoring, Graph and Watcher will not work. What I was not clear was how Security will behave and hence the question. Documentation does mention this: # - s…

If I remember correctly you will need to set xpack.security.enabled: false in elasticsearch.yml as well. Of course you will be running without any security at all. An alternative is to use nginx in front of Kibana and Elasticsearch and setup authentication as described here... https://www.elastic.co…

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