# Can't find license webform for 5.6 (to upgrade)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-find-license-webform-for-5-6-to-upgrade/150504
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 1, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-find-license-webform-for-5-6-to-upgrade/150504 "2018-10-01T03:49:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@paul\_m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paul_m)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-find-license-webform-for-5-6-to-upgrade/150504/1 "2018-10-01T03:49:06Z")
Hi there,
I'm trying to upgrade our v5.6 ELK to v6.x, and the update assistant in Kibana is locked behind an expired xpack license. I remember getting the basic license through a webform, and the current documentation tells you how to apply the license, but not how to obtain it: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.6/installing-license.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.6/installing-license.html)
```
# curl -XGET localhost:9200/_xpack/license
{
"license" : {
"status" : "expired",
"uid" : "(redacted)",
"type" : "basic",
"issue_date" : "2017-07-24T00:00:00.000Z",
"issue_date_in_millis" : 1500854400000,
"expiry_date" : "2018-07-24T23:59:59.999Z",
"expiry_date_in_millis" : 1532476799999,
"max_nodes" : 100,
"issued_to" : "Paul Morahan (Ecal)",
"issuer" : "Web Form",
"start_date_in_millis" : 1500854400000
}
}
```
We were on 5.6.5 for both ES and Kibana, and today I've upgraded to 5.6.12 (to get the update assistant stuff). I've tried a few things also from the v6.x docs, but no luck.
How do I get a basic license for v5.6, so I can apply it, get the upgrade assistant, upgrade to 6.x, and be current with ELK? I can't find it in the docs or the location of the old webform... I must be missing something somewhere
Thanks,
Paul
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-find-license-webform-for-5-6-to-upgrade/150504/2 "2018-10-01T05:28:37Z")
Did you try to upgrade directly to 6.4.1 or went first to 6.2.x?
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### Author:  [@paul\_m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paul_m)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-find-license-webform-for-5-6-to-upgrade/150504/3 "2018-10-02T00:13:16Z")
Haven't touched 6.x yet - upgraded to the last patch point in 5.6.x in order to make the Upgrade Assistant available, but it's inactive because of the expired x-pack license
Tooltip error: 
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 5:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-find-license-webform-for-5-6-to-upgrade/150504/4 "2018-10-02T05:12:16Z")
Oh I see. I misread.
I think you can get it by asking here: [https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions#request-info](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions#request-info)
Happy that you won't have to ask anymore once you'll upgrade to 6.4! 😉
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### Author:  [@paul\_m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paul_m)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-find-license-webform-for-5-6-to-upgrade/150504/5 "2018-10-02T05:28:48Z")
Thanks for your help, David. I decided to just rebuild from scratch after all - our CM playbooks are stale anyway (ELK loves to move resources around... it's hard to keep up when you're just tuning in every 6 months...)
Glad to hear that the basic licensing is going to be no longer a pain in the neck.
Cheers,
Paul
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-find-license-webform-for-5-6-to-upgrade/150504/6 "2018-10-02T06:05:24Z")
Oh yes! Just download and start Elastic 6.4.1 and you're done. You have a perpetual basic license. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-find-license-webform-for-5-6-to-upgrade/150504/7 "2018-10-30T06:05:27Z")
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