# Is this paid like shield and watcher?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-paid-like-shield-and-watcher/51208
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 28, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-paid-like-shield-and-watcher/51208 "2016-05-28T04:27:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![niraj\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/niraj_kumar/32/4130_2.png) [@niraj\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/niraj_kumar)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-paid-like-shield-and-watcher/51208/1 "2016-05-28T04:27:02Z")

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The topic says it all..... And one thing i really don't understand is why elastic doesn't post pricing on their website rather than contacting sales.

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-paid-like-shield-and-watcher/51208/2 "2016-05-28T04:50:24Z")

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v5.0 of the stack will include Shield/Security + Watcher/Alerting + Marvel/Monitoring + Graph as the X-Pack.

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### Author: ![niraj\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/niraj_kumar/32/4130_2.png) [@niraj\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/niraj_kumar)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-paid-like-shield-and-watcher/51208/3 "2016-05-28T22:54:22Z")

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But is this paid and if yes, what is the price for it.

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-paid-like-shield-and-watcher/51208/4 "2016-05-29T00:32:37Z")

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You need to contact [sales@elastic.co](mailto:sales@elastic.co) for that

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### Author: ![dave\_sanderson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dave_sanderson/32/10248_2.png) [@dave\_sanderson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dave_sanderson)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-paid-like-shield-and-watcher/51208/5 "2016-06-10T18:07:26Z")

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Pricing aside, is correct to assume that X-Pack paid since one would need to contact sales to get that answer?

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2016, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-paid-like-shield-and-watcher/51208/6 "2016-06-12T08:56:41Z")

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Monitoring is free, the rest are not.

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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 6, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-paid-like-shield-and-watcher/51208/7 "2017-07-06T13:41:03Z")

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