# Kibana won't run with Shield LicenseExpiredException
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wont-run-with-shield-licenseexpiredexception/31681
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 6, 2015, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wont-run-with-shield-licenseexpiredexception/31681 "2015-10-06T09:17:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@rsjavier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rsjavier)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2015, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wont-run-with-shield-licenseexpiredexception/31681/1 "2015-10-06T09:17:25Z")
I have my Kibana, Elastic and Shield running for quite sometime. The system is working properly even the Shield expired. But when I try to restart the ElasticSearch and Kibana, the Kibana then will run but gives me fatal error regarding Shield License and exit.
[root@xxxx kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64]# ./bin/kibana
{"@timestamp":"2015-10-06T08:47:12.126Z","level":"error","message":"LicenseExpiredException[license expired for feature [shield]]","node\_env":"production","error":{"message":"LicenseExpiredException[license expired for feature [shield]]","name":"Error","stack":"Error: LicenseExpiredException[license expired for feature [shield]]\n at respond (/root/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:235:15)\n at checkRespForFailure (/root/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:203:7)\n at HttpConnector. (/root/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/connectors/http.js:156:7)\n at IncomingMessage.bound (/root/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/node\_modules/lodash-node/modern/internals/baseBind.js:56:17)\n at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:117:20)\n at \_stream\_readable.js:944:16\n at process.\_tickCallback (node.js:442:13)\n"}}
{"@timestamp":"2015-10-06T08:47:12.128Z","level":"fatal","message":"LicenseExpiredException[license expired for feature [shield]]","node\_env":"production","error":{"message":"LicenseExpiredException[license expired for feature [shield]]","name":"Error","stack":"Error: LicenseExpiredException[license expired for feature [shield]]\n at respond (/root/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:235:15)\n at checkRespForFailure (/root/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:203:7)\n at HttpConnector. (/root/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/connectors/http.js:156:7)\n at IncomingMessage.bound (/root/kibana-4.0.1-linux-x64/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/node\_modules/lodash-node/modern/internals/baseBind.js:56:17)\n at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:117:20)\n at \_stream\_readable.js:944:16\n at process.\_tickCallback (node.js:442:13)\n"}}
From what I understand only the cluster health and monitoring will not be available when the Shield expired. How can I make the system run again? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wont-run-with-shield-licenseexpiredexception/31681/2 "2015-10-06T16:23:01Z")
Kibana requires Elasticsearch health and monitoring permissions to make sure Elasticsearch backend is available. So you'll need to get a valid license to use Kibana with Shield.
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### Author:  [@rsjavier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rsjavier)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2015, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wont-run-with-shield-licenseexpiredexception/31681/3 "2015-10-12T07:22:16Z")
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@brandber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brandber)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wont-run-with-shield-licenseexpiredexception/31681/4 "2016-04-18T16:37:14Z")
I had the same question. When I thought about evaluating Shield, the docs gave me the impression that some features that were non-critical to me would no longer function, but I could still use Kibana. This is not the case. I would just suggest clearly setting expectations on what will stop working (i.e. Kibana) so it is not a surprise.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-wont-run-with-shield-licenseexpiredexception/31681/5 "2017-07-06T13:55:49Z")