# ELK licensing and security

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licensing-and-security/163109>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [January 7, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licensing-and-security/163109 "2019-01-07T05:51:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![l001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@l001](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/l001)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licensing-and-security/163109/1 "2019-01-07T05:51:28Z")

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My company is looking at a logging suite and ELK seemed promising. However, as I was exploring Elasticsearch and Kibana, I found this [subscriptions doc](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) showing that Security cannot be implemented for free version.

Is this understanding correct? So basically if you don't pay, there would be no TLS support?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licensing-and-security/163109/2 "2019-01-07T06:05:18Z")

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That's correct. Security is available with a commercial license. You can try it for free by enabling the trial from Kibana interface.

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**Author:** ![l001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@l001](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/l001)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licensing-and-security/163109/3 "2019-01-07T06:09:10Z")

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That doesn't sound right.. Alerting and Machine Learning being on paid versions is understandable, but Security?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-licensing-and-security/163109/4 "2019-02-04T06:09:11Z")

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