# Basic License expires after 1 month
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-expires-after-1-month/129055
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 23, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-expires-after-1-month/129055 "2018-04-23T08:23:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@joeweoj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joeweoj)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-expires-after-1-month/129055/1 "2018-04-23T08:23:10Z")
Hi.
We are using X-pack solely for it's monitoring capabilities at the moment (which are very good).
Our Elasticsearch clusters are generated via automation (Cattle vs Pets style) and we generate a new cluster fairly frequently. As we don't use any other X-pack functionality i set the `xpack.license.self_generated.type=basic` configuration option expecting it to generate me a basic license in perpetuity or at least a year (which is what you get if you manually request one), but instead, Kibana tells me
> Your Basic license is active
> Your license will expire on May 19, 2018 4:35 PM BST.
Is it possible to setup an Elasticsearch cluster with a _basic_ license without it expiring after 1 month without having to mess around with the License API? If not please can this be added as a feature request.
I'm afraid requesting licenses and manually uploading them is not really a scalable solution when automating things.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-expires-after-1-month/129055/2 "2018-04-23T18:59:17Z")
Hi @joeweoj,
This should be available soon. The basic license will no longer expire. Keep an eye out on our next few releases for this one!
Thanks,
Chris
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### Author:  [@joeweoj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joeweoj)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-expires-after-1-month/129055/3 "2018-04-24T07:21:06Z")
Thanks @chrisronline,
Is there a github feature request or something i can track to see when it becomes available (instead of polling the release notes).
Cheers
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-expires-after-1-month/129055/4 "2018-04-24T09:49:24Z")
It will be part of 6.3.0.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-expires-after-1-month/129055/5 "2018-05-22T09:49:25Z")
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