# Can we use ELK stack without X-Pack?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elk-stack-without-x-pack/125104>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 22, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elk-stack-without-x-pack/125104 "2018-03-22T04:27:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![muthu\_kumar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@muthu\_kumar1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muthu_kumar1)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elk-stack-without-x-pack/125104/1 "2018-03-22T04:27:20Z")

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Can we use ELK stack without X-Pack

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elk-stack-without-x-pack/125104/2 "2018-03-22T05:20:41Z")

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Yes, you can.

If you can provide a bit more context to your question, we can probably give a more useful answer.  
Is there a particular reason that you don't want to use X-Pack?

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**Author:** ![muthu\_kumar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@muthu\_kumar1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muthu_kumar1)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 5:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elk-stack-without-x-pack/125104/3 "2018-03-22T05:26:20Z")

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> [@TimV](#):
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> If you can provide a bit more context to your question,

We need to try it out in server with no license mode intially to prove the ELK stack.So can we use free version.I have read in [elastic.co](http://elastic.co) and got like if it is freeware i can use only elk stack without X-Pack.So to confirm on that I have this question.

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elk-stack-without-x-pack/125104/4 "2018-03-22T06:49:41Z")

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You can install X-Pack and use it with a free license.  
See the "basic" license subscription at: [https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions)

We've also announced that we are opening up the code for X-Pack, and from the next release of Elasticsearch it will ship with X-Pack pre-installed will all the "basic" features automatically enabled for you.

> **[Doubling Down on Open
	  	 | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/blog/doubling-down-on-open)**
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> I am excited to announce that we will be opening the code of our X-Pack features - security, monitoring, alerting, graph, reporting, dedicated APM UIs, Canvas, Elasticsearch SQL, Search Profiler, Grok...

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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:** [April 19, 2018, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elk-stack-without-x-pack/125104/5 "2018-04-19T06:49:58Z")

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