# License expired
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-expired/267400
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** license
**Created:** [March 16, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-expired/267400 "2021-03-16T16:39:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@DENMODSupport](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DENMODSupport)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-expired/267400/1 "2021-03-16T16:39:42Z")
We are getting below License expired error from Elastic search logs. We are using the version 5.3.1. Please let us know what we should do to resolve this error?
```
Error:
[2021-03-16T12:24:04,454][WARN][o.e.l.LicenseService] [elk-denmod-web]
#
# LICENSE [EXPIRED] ON [SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2021]. IF YOU HAVE A NEW LICENSE, PLEASE UPDATE IT.
# OTHERWISE, PLEASE REACH OUT TO YOUR SUPPORT CONTACT.
#
# COMMERCIAL PLUGINS OPERATING WITH REDUCED FUNCTIONALITY
# - security
# - Cluster health, cluster stats and indices stats operations are blocked
# - All data operations (read and write) continue to work
# - watcher
# - PUT / GET watch APIs are disabled, DELETE watch API continues to work
# - Watches execute and write to the history
# - The actions of the watches don't execute
# - monitoring
# - The agent will stop collecting cluster and indices metrics
# - The agent will stop automatically cleaning indices older than [xpack.monitoring.history.duration]
# - graph
# - Graph explore APIs are disabled
```
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-expired/267400/2 "2021-03-16T17:58:08Z")
That is a very old version. As this was before X-Pack was bundled into the default distribution and a free license level made available I believe your options are to either uninstall the X-Pack plugin across the cluster or reach out to Elastic Sales in order to acquire a new, valid license.
I would warmly recommend upgrading though.
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### Author:  [@DENMODSupport](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DENMODSupport)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-expired/267400/3 "2021-03-17T06:49:43Z")
> [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](#):
>
> As this was before X-Pack was bundled into the default distribution and a free license level made available I believe your options are to either uninstall the X-Pack plugin across the cluster or reach out to Elastic Sales in order to acquire a new, valid license
How to reach out to Elastic sales? or is there any trial license we can update?
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-expired/267400/4 "2021-03-17T07:20:03Z")
I am not sure you can get a trial license for such an old version of Elasticsearch, but do not know for sure. You probably need to [contact sales](https://www.elastic.co/contact?storm=global-header-en) if you want to stay on that version. If you were to upgrade to a supported version you would be able to have some features available through the Basic license and also enable a full trial license through Kibana.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-expired/267400/5 "2021-03-17T10:45:23Z")
Agreed with Christian. As we already mentioned in December
> [@Unable to access data from elastic search](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-access-data-from-elastic-search/257258/12):
>
> Could you explain what the problem is? Hard to tell without seeing any information on that like code. That said, I'm not a dotnet dev so I don't know if I can help but may be someone would be able to. That's a way too old. It's not even the latest stable of the 5.x version. We don't support 5.x anymore. Consider updating to 7.10.
You really need to upgrade your cluster IMO.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-expired/267400/6 "2021-04-14T10:45:28Z")
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