# 🐴 Elastic AutoOps is now free for every self-managed cluster — no license upgrade, no credit card, no strings attached **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-autoops-is-now-free-for-every-self-managed-cluster-no-license-upgrade-no-credit-card-no-strings-attached/385258 **Category:** Elasticsearch **Tags:** license **Created:** [February 26, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-autoops-is-now-free-for-every-self-managed-cluster-no-license-upgrade-no-credit-card-no-strings-attached/385258 "2026-02-26T22:50:08Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Musab\_Dogan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/musab_dogan/32/70691_2.png) [@Musab\_Dogan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Musab_Dogan) #### Post date: [February 26, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-autoops-is-now-free-for-every-self-managed-cluster-no-license-upgrade-no-credit-card-no-strings-attached/385258/1 "2026-02-26T22:50:08Z")
🥳 Sharing this great news here for more visibility. > Elastic AutoOps brings diagnostics and operational insights directly to your environment, transforming the way you manage Elasticsearch. Today, we are making AutoOps advanced capability **free for every Elasticsearch user** regardless of license tier — Basic, Platinum, and Enterprise. This applies to deployments running on Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, or standalone clusters in on-prem or private cloud environments that can connect to AutoOps in Elastic Cloud via Cloud Connect. Source: [Elastic AutoOps is now free: Investing in our open source community | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/autoops-free) What is AutoOps: [AutoOps: Cluster management utility | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/platform/autoops) How to connect your self-managed Elasticsearch cluster to Elastic AutoOps: [Connecting Self-Managed Elasticsearch Clusters to Elastic AutoOps](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/connecting-self-managed-elasticsearch-clusters-elastic-musab-dogan-hepdf)