# Does marvel has any limitation of number of nodes in a cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-marvel-has-any-limitation-of-number-of-nodes-in-a-cluster/47876
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [April 20, 2016, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-marvel-has-any-limitation-of-number-of-nodes-in-a-cluster/47876 "2016-04-20T08:48:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Sai\_Birada](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sai_Birada)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2016, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-marvel-has-any-limitation-of-number-of-nodes-in-a-cluster/47876/1 "2016-04-20T08:48:01Z")
I seen a basic version of marvel is free now. Is there any limitation that marvel is free if only my cluster has less than 5/some x nodes. Or its free irrespective of number of nodes in the cluster?
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### Author:  [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-marvel-has-any-limitation-of-number-of-nodes-in-a-cluster/47876/2 "2016-04-20T13:47:02Z")
Hi Sai,
There is no limit on the number of nodes you can use with a Basic license. The basic license enables all Marvel capabilities, except multi-cluster support (single monitoring cluster holding data from multiple clusters), and configurable Marvel data Retention (managed Marvel history was added in 2.3).
Thanks,
Steve
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### Author:  [@Sai\_Birada](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sai_Birada)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2016, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-marvel-has-any-limitation-of-number-of-nodes-in-a-cluster/47876/3 "2016-04-21T10:18:56Z")
Hai skearns,
What do you mean by configurable data retention, as far as i know marvel stores each days data in a respective index of that day, and that data will exist until we delete that index.
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### Author:  [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-marvel-has-any-limitation-of-number-of-nodes-in-a-cluster/47876/4 "2016-04-21T13:01:21Z")
Hi Sai,
In Marvel 2.3, we added a long-requested feature that automatically maintains Marvel history indexes:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/marvel/current/release-notes.html#\_2\_3\_0](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/marvel/current/release-notes.html#_2_3_0)
With a Gold or Platinum license, the retention period is configurable to any number. With the Basic license, it is fixed at the default of 7 days.
Note that the automatic maintenance of Marvel history indexes only applies when you're storing the marvel results locally - if you're using a centralized monitoring cluster, you will need to install the marvel-agent on that cluster or manually manage the history indexes there.
Thanks,
Steve
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-marvel-has-any-limitation-of-number-of-nodes-in-a-cluster/47876/5 "2017-07-06T13:44:00Z")