# License+monitoring issue after upgrading to 6.3.0
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-monitoring-issue-after-upgrading-to-6-3-0/136892
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 21, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-monitoring-issue-after-upgrading-to-6-3-0/136892 "2018-06-21T14:05:22Z")
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### Author:  [@JohanRask](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JohanRask)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-monitoring-issue-after-upgrading-to-6-3-0/136892/1 "2018-06-21T14:05:22Z")
Hi,
We are "on our way" to production but we are still on a trial license. and today we migrated our elasticsearch cluster to 6.3.0 (kibana is still on 6.2.4).
During installation of elasticsearch-6.3.0 the license information in the monitoring-ui show the wrong license information which in turn disables monitoring for us. But under management-\> License Management the correct license info is displayed. We have tried to add older license and then revert back to a new license and also restarted kibana without any luck. I have attached images showing this.
We are still on kibana-6.2.4 but I assume that while upgrading to elasticsearch-6.3.0 we should still be able to use the monitoring features in x-pack? Or perhaps we are simply missing something?
This is taken from our logs
`{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-06-21T13:42:00Z","tags":["license","info","xpack"],"pid":43765,"message":"Imported license information from Elasticsearch for the [data] cluster: mode: trial | status: active | expiry date: 2018-07-26T01:59:59+02:00"}`
`{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-06-21T13:43:19Z","tags":["warning","monitoring-ui"],"pid":43765,"message":"Cluster [nHIbcFRxTaGTvJqB5WBf-A] has an invalid license (defined: [true])."}`
`{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-06-21T13:43:19Z","tags":["warning","monitoring-ui"],"pid":43765,"message":"Cluster [QKCsRPjCQjCQGCubsdA4_A] has an invalid license (defined: [true])."}`
This shows two clusters (one main and one for monitoring + logs) . This says expired
but License Management says valid (which is correct according to "GET \_xpack/license")
This is from our single node monitoring cluster but the main cluster displays the same
Regards /Johan
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### Author:  [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-monitoring-issue-after-upgrading-to-6-3-0/136892/2 "2018-06-21T23:46:35Z")
I think your going to need to upgrade Kibana to 6.3
As part of the changes to open X-Pack and provide non-expiring, basic licenses we made some changes to the licence format.
I wouldn't expect it to have this affect, but it seems like the most likely cause.
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### Author:  [@JohanRask](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JohanRask)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-monitoring-issue-after-upgrading-to-6-3-0/136892/3 "2018-06-25T14:06:33Z")
Thanks!
Upgrading kibana solves the issue, but that means that monitoring is disabled during elasticsearch upgrade.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/license-monitoring-issue-after-upgrading-to-6-3-0/136892/4 "2018-07-23T14:09:19Z")
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