# How to Enable Alerting With Basic License?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-alerting-with-basic-license/236764>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 11, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-alerting-with-basic-license/236764 "2020-06-11T17:33:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Webtrend\_Inc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/webtrend_inc/32/70034_2.png) [@Webtrend\_Inc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Webtrend_Inc)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-alerting-with-basic-license/236764/1 "2020-06-11T17:33:20Z")

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According to elastic licensing page alerting is available with basic free license.

We have 6 node cluster (with TLS/security enabled) and we are unable to see any alerting options on cluster monitoring dashboards in Kibana.  
Do we need to do something to enable it?

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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:** [June 11, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-alerting-with-basic-license/236764/2 "2020-06-11T17:55:56Z")

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Which version are you using?

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**Author:** ![Webtrend\_Inc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/webtrend_inc/32/70034_2.png) [@Webtrend\_Inc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Webtrend_Inc)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-alerting-with-basic-license/236764/3 "2020-06-11T19:45:45Z")

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we are using 7.5.0

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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:** [June 11, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-alerting-with-basic-license/236764/4 "2020-06-11T20:02:44Z")

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Kibana alerts are available with the basic licence, but I think it requires version 7.7.

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**Author:** ![Webtrend\_Inc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/webtrend_inc/32/70034_2.png) [@Webtrend\_Inc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Webtrend_Inc)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-alerting-with-basic-license/236764/5 "2020-06-11T21:05:31Z")

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Thanks. I absolutely did not realize it.

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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 12, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-alerting-with-basic-license/236764/6 "2020-07-12T23:38:25Z")

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