# Elk opensource or not

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-opensource-or-not/36995>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 11, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-opensource-or-not/36995 "2015-12-11T15:38:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mohan\_pusarla](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mohan_pusarla/32/6585_2.png) [@mohan\_pusarla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohan_pusarla)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-opensource-or-not/36995/1 "2015-12-11T15:38:48Z")

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Hi ,

I would like to understand is the elk stack opensource or not.

There are lot tools in the stack it seems what are opensource and what are not?

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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:** [December 11, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-opensource-or-not/36995/2 "2015-12-11T18:39:14Z")

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ELK means Elasticsearch Logstash and Kibana.

Both 3 are open source under Apache 2 License.

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**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:** [December 12, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-opensource-or-not/36995/3 "2015-12-12T00:04:28Z")

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We have some plugins that are commercial, ie not free. These are Shield, Marvel and Watcher.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-opensource-or-not/36995/4 "2015-12-12T07:28:40Z")

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There is also an Elasticsearch-Hadoop connector and a collection of Beats that are all open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-opensource-or-not/36995/5 "2017-07-05T23:31:35Z")

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