# Is elastic free version enough to get logs from different k8s clusters?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-free-version-enough-to-get-logs-from-different-k8s-clusters/196951
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 27, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-free-version-enough-to-get-logs-from-different-k8s-clusters/196951 "2019-08-27T13:17:03Z")
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### Author:  [@O\_K](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/O_K)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-free-version-enough-to-get-logs-from-different-k8s-clusters/196951/1 "2019-08-27T13:17:03Z")
Hello,
We would like to receive logs from several k8s clusters, but I wonder whether this would be possible with free elastic stack version. Please suggest
Thanks and regards
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### Author:  [@sspilleman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sspilleman)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-free-version-enough-to-get-logs-from-different-k8s-clusters/196951/2 "2019-08-28T05:39:20Z")
Yes it is. What's your concern?
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### Author:  [@O\_K](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/O_K)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-free-version-enough-to-get-logs-from-different-k8s-clusters/196951/3 "2019-08-28T05:53:51Z")
thanks @sspilleman
We are about to make decision which logging solution to use and would like to understand at which level it will cost money. AFAIK for HA there is no free option, please correct me if I'm wrong
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### Author:  [@Sjaak01](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sjaak01)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-free-version-enough-to-get-logs-from-different-k8s-clusters/196951/4 "2019-08-28T07:12:28Z")
You can run a cluster with the free version as far as I know.
Once you want things like security, reporting, alerting etc. you will need xpack which is paid but I believe all of the core functionality is available in the free version.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-free-version-enough-to-get-logs-from-different-k8s-clusters/196951/5 "2019-08-28T17:53:19Z")
Some security features are part of the basic / free version.
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### Author:  [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-free-version-enough-to-get-logs-from-different-k8s-clusters/196951/6 "2019-08-28T18:37:43Z")
ELK has also made local user and space management free after 7.x version.
elk pretty much can ingest any kind of log
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-free-version-enough-to-get-logs-from-different-k8s-clusters/196951/7 "2019-09-25T18:37:44Z")
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