# ELK license model **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 30, 2018, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-license-model/142147 "2018-07-30T10:32:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adavous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@adavous](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adavous)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-license-model/142147/1 "2018-07-30T10:32:24Z")
Sorry to ask about very basic information. Well, I have installed and configured ELK on my own server to ingest and analyze IIS logs and Windows events of few servers. Having a standalone ELK server is filling my needs for now. But, I had some error messages about expired license, and I had to deinstall X-Pack. Have still this annoying message on Kibana saying my trial period has expired (that should be ackonledged every time I connect to). Ok I tried to figure out what is exactly the ELK license model. What is really _long-term_ free and what is not, among all modules ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, X-Pack, etc... Someone to clarify ? Web site is not really clear about all these free, basic, trial period, etc... Edit : and what is the procedure to have a long-term free solution with/without updates and/or what is the very first level of licence to get minimal but functional solution ? Regards Antoine ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-license-model/142147/2 "2018-07-30T10:44:29Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) should help. What version are you on though? ---
**Author:** ![adavous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@adavous](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adavous)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-license-model/142147/3 "2018-07-30T10:55:05Z")
Thank for answer. 1. Well, from this page I have so many questions and the first one is what is the process to get a Basic edition license ? 2. I have installed ELK from Yum repositories : elasticsearch-6.3.2-1.noarch logstash-6.3.2-1.noarch kibana-6.3.2-1.x86\_64 ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-license-model/142147/4 "2018-07-30T11:05:19Z")
If you are running 6.3.X and above then you don't need to do anything! You get a perpetual Basic license included 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![adavous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@adavous](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adavous)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-license-model/142147/5 "2018-07-30T11:08:21Z")
Thank again. But what about this warning every time I login ? ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/3/c3bb7ce4ccd287ae23f500ae5f9160929d107e95.PNG) Edit : and from the Subscibtion page, why APM is disabled ? ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/b/2b3eead6b9cf6be31cb25633ecf311ff46e09092.PNG) ---
**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:** [July 30, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-license-model/142147/6 "2018-07-30T12:09:36Z")
At some point you must have triggered a _trial_ license. Either you did that explictly on 6.3, or you upgraded from an earlier version of Elasticsearch where the default starting license was a trial. You just need to switch back to a basic license through Kibana or the API See - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.3/license-management.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.3/license-management.html) - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/start-basic.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/start-basic.html) ---
**Author:** ![adavous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@adavous](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adavous)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-license-model/142147/7 "2018-07-31T09:47:21Z")
Edit : forget about this question. I found the answer in [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.3/ml-getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.3/ml-getting-started.html) 1. OK, the procedure require a license file ; where or how can I get a basic license file ? 2. Should X-Pack be installed or can I use ELK without it ? ---
**Author:** ![Charaf\_Ahmed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/charaf_ahmed/32/30467_2.png) [@Charaf\_Ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Charaf_Ahmed)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-license-model/142147/8 "2018-07-31T09:57:47Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/fr/subscriptions](https://www.elastic.co/fr/subscriptions) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-license-model/142147/9 "2018-08-28T09:57:51Z")
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