# ELK Licencing question
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licencing-question/288681
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** license
**Created:** [November 8, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licencing-question/288681 "2021-11-08T21:19:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Eduard\_Abril](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eduard_Abril)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licencing-question/288681/1 "2021-11-08T21:19:19Z")
Hello guys,
We are planning to deploy an ELK architecture with enterprise features, our though is to deploy 9 Elasticsearch nodes with different roles, 1 kibana node and 2 logstash nodes, my question is How many nodes do we have to licence? Do we have to licence kibana and logstash nodes as well?
I would appreciate a lot if someone clear this for me to understand this licencing topic.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licencing-question/288681/2 "2021-11-08T21:38:09Z")
Kibana and Logstash nodes does not count against the number of licensed nodes.
Some Elasticsearch roles also do not need an extra license, I think that coordinating-only and ingest-only nodes does not count against the number of licensed nodes.
I think that you will need a license for all master, data, transform and machine learning nodes.
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licencing-question/288681/3 "2021-11-09T01:54:12Z")
Hi @Eduard_Abril
For Self Managed Node Licensing:
- Production Nodes Are Licensed
- Non Production Nodes Are NOT licensed
- **Licensed Node :** Master, Data, Machine Learning, and Cross Cluster Search Nodes
- **Un-Licensed Node** : Kibana, Beats, Logstash, Elastic Agent, Coordinating and /or Ingest Only Nodes, APM Server
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### Author:  [@Eduard\_Abril](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eduard_Abril)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licencing-question/288681/4 "2021-11-09T14:44:08Z")
Hi @stephenb
Thank you very much for clear this to me.
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### Author:  [@Eduard\_Abril](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eduard_Abril)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licencing-question/288681/5 "2021-11-09T14:44:39Z")
Hey @leandrojmp Thanks a lot for your help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licencing-question/288681/6 "2021-12-07T14:44:45Z")
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