# Lost Trial License on ECK After Creating LoadBalancer

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lost-trial-license-on-eck-after-creating-loadbalancer/326396>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [February 24, 2023, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lost-trial-license-on-eck-after-creating-loadbalancer/326396 "2023-02-24T03:37:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![tr78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@tr78](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tr78)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lost-trial-license-on-eck-after-creating-loadbalancer/326396/1 "2023-02-24T03:37:24Z")

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Hi,

I've been running a trial license on ECK for about a week now without issue. Today I created a LoadBalancer to expose the API on port 9200, and after applying my license had reverted back to basic. If I try the trial license API, it says I cannot activate a trial license since one had already been activated.

I contacted Elastic and they said that I will need to delete all data. This seems extreme, I'm wondering if anyone else has any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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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:** [March 24, 2023, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lost-trial-license-on-eck-after-creating-loadbalancer/326396/2 "2023-03-24T03:37:39Z")

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