# Licence error after starting Logstash

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licence-error-after-starting-logstash/197095
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 28, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licence-error-after-starting-logstash/197095 "2019-08-28T11:27:35Z")
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### Author: ![\_bawaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/ba9def/32.png) [@\_bawaji](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_bawaji)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licence-error-after-starting-logstash/197095/1 "2019-08-28T11:27:35Z")

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I installed ES first, it worked fine. Then installed Kibana, both Kibana and ES worked fine after enabling Authentication as well.

Now installed Logstash, faced issues while starting, now managed to start it but getting below error :

[2019-08-28T16:52:05,410][ERROR][logstash.licensechecker.licensereader] Unable to retrieve license information from license server {:message=\>"Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?"}.

Please help.

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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: [September 25, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licence-error-after-starting-logstash/197095/2 "2019-09-25T11:27:45Z")

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