# ILM not working after licence expires
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-not-working-after-licence-expires/199646
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 16, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-not-working-after-licence-expires/199646 "2019-09-16T11:23:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Mesmer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mesmer)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-not-working-after-licence-expires/199646/1 "2019-09-16T11:23:33Z")
After trying out Machine Learning trial licence i notice that Index Lifecycle Management is no longer working. The error i get is
> 403: Forbidden. You cannot use Index Management because your trial license has expired.
From what i've read the ILM should be available in the free version.
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### Author:  [@Mesmer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mesmer)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-not-working-after-licence-expires/199646/2 "2019-09-16T11:26:47Z")
Managed to fix it:)
Need to go into licence management and click "switch to basic"
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### Author:  [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-not-working-after-licence-expires/199646/3 "2019-09-30T15:53:44Z")
Thanks for raising this Mesmer, and for sharing your solution! This is a known issue which we are tracking here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/36233](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/36233)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-not-working-after-licence-expires/199646/4 "2019-10-28T15:54:13Z")
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