# License basic inactive

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-basic-inactive/156163>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** license\
**Created:** [November 10, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-basic-inactive/156163 "2018-11-10T20:52:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![epchelkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aeb1de/32.png) [@epchelkin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/epchelkin)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-basic-inactive/156163/1 "2018-11-10T20:52:37Z")

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Hello!  
After today upgrade of elastic and kibana i've got that basic license is inactive and I cannot re-activate it even through api below is screenshot

 ![kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/6/a6f4d402b6e5645429b65a1a03ed35c580e91e09.jpeg)

when tried to activate basic, I've got the following:

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[root@msk-rhlog bin]# curl -X POST "localhost:9200/\_xpack/license/start\_basic?acknowledge=true"  
{"acknowledged":true,"basic\_was\_started":false,"error\_message":"Operation failed: Current license is basic."}

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[root@msk-rhlog bin]# curl -X GET "localhost:9200/\_xpack/license"  
{  
"license" : {  
"status" : "invalid",  
"uid" : "d0f68d6a-f310-4dcd-91ab-affd47a03361",  
"type" : "basic",  
"issue\_date" : "2018-11-10T22:24:14.948Z",  
"issue\_date\_in\_millis" : 1541888654948,  
"max\_nodes" : 1000,  
"issued\_to" : "logs",  
"issuer" : "elasticsearch",  
"start\_date\_in\_millis" : -1  
}  
}

during startup of elastic I have that basic license is valid:

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[2018-11-10T23:56:36,118][INFO][o.e.c.s.ClusterSettings] [msk-rhlog] updating [xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled] from [false] to [true]  
[2018-11-10T23:56:36,356][WARN][o.e.x.s.a.s.m.NativeRoleMappingStore] [msk-rhlog] Failed to clear cache for realms []  
[2018-11-10T23:56:36,358][INFO][o.e.x.s.a.TokenService] [msk-rhlog] refresh keys  
[2018-11-10T23:56:36,728][INFO][o.e.x.s.a.TokenService] [msk-rhlog] refreshed keys  
**[2018-11-10T23:56:36,789][INFO][o.e.l.LicenseService] [msk-rhlog] license [d0f68d6a-f310-4dcd-91ab-affd47a03361] mode [basic] - valid**

Thank you in advance,  
Regards,  
Evgeny

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**Author:** ![epchelkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aeb1de/32.png) [@epchelkin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/epchelkin)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-basic-inactive/156163/2 "2018-11-11T09:59:00Z")

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Today it becomes active. Question is closed, ELK is the best!!!

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-basic-inactive/156163/3 "2018-11-11T12:37:57Z")

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I think "invalid" means the licence hasn't started yet, which makes me think that perhaps your system clock went back in time for some reason after the licence was first created. It became valid again once the system clock had advanced past the creation time once more.

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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:** [December 9, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-basic-inactive/156163/4 "2018-12-09T12:38:00Z")

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