# False License Expiration Warning

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/false-license-expiration-warning/99049>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 31, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/false-license-expiration-warning/99049 "2017-08-31T20:11:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![kd5dbl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kd5dbl/32/10450_2.png) [@kd5dbl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kd5dbl)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/false-license-expiration-warning/99049/1 "2017-08-31T20:11:24Z")

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On one of my ELK installations recently, I got this warning:

```
[2017-08-29T00:02:06,815][WARN][o.e.l.LicenseService] [es_ip-10-174-1-46]
#
# License [will expire] on [Saturday, September 02, 2017]. If you have a new license, please update it.
# Otherwise, please reach out to your support contact.
#
# Commercial plugins operate with reduced functionality on license expiration:
# - security
# - Cluster health, cluster stats and indices stats operations are blocked
# - All data operations (read and write) continue to work
# - watcher
# - PUT / GET watch APIs are disabled, DELETE watch API continues to work
# - Watches execute and write to the history
# - The actions of the watches don't execute
# - monitoring
# - The agent will stop collecting cluster and indices metrics
# - The agent will stop automatically cleaning indices older than [xpack.monitoring.history.duration]
# - graph
# - Graph explore APIs are disabled

```

But when I pull down the license from my ES node:

```
curl http://localhost:9200/_license
{
  "license" : {
    "status" : "active",
    "uid" : "<removed for privacy reasons>",
    "type" : "basic",
    "issue_date" : "2016-12-21T00:00:00.000Z",
    "issue_date_in_millis" : 1482278400000,
    "expiry_date" : "2017-12-21T23:59:59.999Z",
    "expiry_date_in_millis" : 1513900799999,
    "max_nodes" : 100,
    "issued_to" : "David Lambert",
    "issuer" : "Web Form",
    "start_date_in_millis" : 1482278400000
  }
}

```

It shows an expiration date of Dec 21, 2017.... any suggestions on why these aren't lining up? Current date on the system is:

```
date
Thu Aug 31 20:13:47 UTC 2017

```

This is ELK 5.1.2....

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![seanziee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/seanziee/32/45151_2.png) [@seanziee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seanziee)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/false-license-expiration-warning/99049/2 "2017-08-31T20:20:05Z")

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Do you only have one node in your cluster?

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**Author:** ![kd5dbl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kd5dbl/32/10450_2.png) [@kd5dbl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kd5dbl)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/false-license-expiration-warning/99049/3 "2017-09-06T15:03:38Z")

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In this case yes.... It's a test environment I've spun up in AWS....

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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:** [October 4, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/false-license-expiration-warning/99049/4 "2017-10-04T15:03:47Z")

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