License Expiry issue in Elasticsearch 7.10.2

[Pritheka (Pritheka Kumar)]

I installed 'Elasticsearch-7.10.2' recently. When i run it, i get the below error in the logs.

[ERROR][o.e.x.s.a.f.SecurityActionFilter] [LAPTOP-05GRP0LP] blocking [cluster:monitor/nodes/stats] operation due to expired license. Cluster health, cluster stats and indices stats*
*operations are blocked on license expiration. All data operations (read and write) continue to work.*
*If you have a new license, please update it. Otherwise, please reach out to your support contact.

From the previous topics i read, i added the following line in 'elasticsearch.yml' file

xpack.security.enabled: false

But it doesn't seem to work. What should i do to activate a basic license. Kindly help

[stephenb (Stephen Brown)]

hi @Pritheka Welcome to the community and thanks for trying elastic.

Couple questions ...

How / what method and which distribution did you install Elastic and Kibana.

Did you turn on the trial license, the message above seems to indicate perhaps you did and then used some of the premium and then the trial license expired.

The basic / free license does not expired.

In Kibana Under Stack Management -> License Management what does it show?

The setting you changed will not address this issue.

Example what does this screen look like