# Basic License showing wrong expiration date

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** license\
**Created:** [August 17, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237 "2020-08-17T12:57:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![baidwan007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@baidwan007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baidwan007)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237/1 "2020-08-17T12:57:39Z")

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![Screen Shot 2020-08-17 at 6.22.53 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/4/a4929e83c70318f7802e1677b265749faf42152d.png)

I ran the update license command on ES cluster and kibana cluster today to switch to basic license.  
On kibana console it shows todays date itself as expiration date. I hope this is not the real case?  
Does this mean something or is it a bug?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237/2 "2020-08-17T22:31:37Z")

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What version are you on?

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**Author:** ![baidwan007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@baidwan007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baidwan007)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237/3 "2020-08-18T05:37:14Z")

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On 7.1.0

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237/4 "2020-08-18T05:38:11Z")

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Is this part of the downgrade topic you asked about previously?

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**Author:** ![baidwan007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@baidwan007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baidwan007)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237/5 "2020-08-18T05:38:37Z")

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Yes Mark. This is the link for that topic for others reference

> [@Downgrading from Gold licence to basic license](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrading-from-gold-licence-to-basic-license/245202):
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> We have a cluster with ES 7.1 where we use gold licence. We have native authentication realm (order 0) and pki realm (order 1) as auth mechanisms. xpack.security.enabled: true in elasticsearch.yaml Now we have decided to downgrade our cluster to basic licence. I read here [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/update-license.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/update-license.html) that all we need to do is fire an update licence command on kibana to do this with 0 downtime. In this downgrade process my doubt is that …

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**Author:** ![baidwan007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@baidwan007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baidwan007)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237/6 "2020-08-18T06:06:01Z")

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![Screen Shot 2020-08-18 at 11.32.58 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/6/d6c38994426dcfdb02812fc64ca6ad445e157ef8.png)  
So yesterday it was showing yesterdays date 17th August. Today it is showing todays date 18th August.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237/7 "2020-08-18T07:54:33Z")

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As the basic license never expires I wonder if today’s date is shown instead of N/A?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-license-showing-wrong-expiration-date/245237/8 "2020-09-15T07:54:38Z")

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