# ELK STACK - LICENSE CLARIFICATION

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-license-clarification/345171>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [October 17, 2023, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-license-clarification/345171 "2023-10-17T07:18:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![venkatesh\_prasanth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/venkatesh_prasanth/32/89319_2.png) [@venkatesh\_prasanth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkatesh_prasanth)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-license-clarification/345171/1 "2023-10-17T07:18:06Z")

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Hi,

So Basically I would like to use ELK as monitoring stack for our own purpose, Can We get alerting like mail alert for hearbeat down or anything on this [Download Elastic Products | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/downloads)

what are the limitations? on the free version

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**Author:** ![carly.richmond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carly.richmond/32/104935_2.png) [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-license-clarification/345171/2 "2023-10-17T09:52:00Z")

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Hi @venkatesh_prasanth,

Welcome back! Alerting is available on the free tier, with the exception of rules based on anomaly detection or SLOs, which are only available on Platinum and Enterprise tiers.

One limitation you'll come across is the fact that the email connector is a Platinum feature, so index or logging are the actions available with free.But you could have a look at using the Logstash email plugin instead [as covered in this thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-alert-for-notification-if-using-free-version/283764/3).

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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:** [November 14, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-license-clarification/345171/3 "2023-11-14T09:52:29Z")

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