# Marvel is now free for production **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\ **Created:** [October 28, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180 "2015-10-28T18:33:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![skearns](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skearns/32/125945_2.png) [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/21 "2016-01-15T20:54:00Z")
Hi Pieter, It's certainly still on our list, but the majority of our focus is on Marvel 2.x , tbh. I do think we're close, but I wouldn't wait to deploy your ES instances because of it. Is there a reason that you're deploying ES 1.7 instead of 2.1? Thanks, Steve ---
**Author:** ![Pieter\_Agenbag](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pieter_agenbag/32/4562_2.png) [@Pieter\_Agenbag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pieter_Agenbag)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/22 "2016-01-18T06:53:22Z")
Thanx for the update. I had to add some custom code to Kibana 4.1(at that time) to meet some of my requirements and as Kibana 4.1 is not compatible with ES 2.1 , I'm stuck with ES 1.7 until I can port all of the changes into Kibana 4.2 - but as its an all or nothing kind of approach we'll rather stick with what works until we have more compelling reasons to switch. ---
**Author:** ![abhijat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@abhijat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhijat)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/23 "2016-02-10T19:50:46Z")
Hello, Any updates on this please? ---
**Author:** ![elad.amit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elad.amit/32/8348_2.png) [@elad.amit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elad.amit)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/24 "2016-03-08T14:01:11Z")
Any updates on this? We're holding back on installing marvel due to this ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ravikiran\_S\_Kalal\_DS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@Ravikiran\_S\_Kalal\_DS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ravikiran_S_Kalal_DS)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/25 "2016-06-15T04:28:17Z")
Does this mean sense plugin is free for production too? ---
**Author:** ![bohyun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bohyun/32/10087_2.png) [@bohyun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bohyun)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/26 "2016-06-16T17:22:00Z")
Hi Ravikiran yes, sense is free. Thanks, Bohyun ---
**Author:** ![Ravikiran\_S\_Kalal\_DS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@Ravikiran\_S\_Kalal\_DS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ravikiran_S_Kalal_DS)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/27 "2016-06-17T03:37:18Z")
Thank you Kim. Regards Ravikiran. ---
**Author:** ![ilium007](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ilium007/32/10526_2.png) [@ilium007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ilium007)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/28 "2016-06-23T22:46:34Z")
Any update on licensing for 1.7 elasticsearch and the Marvel plugin ? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Sander](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael_sander/32/838_2.png) [@Michael\_Sander](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Sander)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/29 "2016-06-27T22:39:44Z")
I was able to get a free basic license to Marvell, but I'm not sure how to install it on ES 1.7. Any help would be appreciated. I get the following error when I try to list available licenses: ```auto curl localhost:9200/_licenses?pretty { "error" : "ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[No feature for name [_licenses]]", "status" : 400 } ``` ---
**Author:** ![pickypg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pickypg/32/62409_2.png) [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/30 "2016-07-08T21:37:43Z")
The Basic license does not apply to Marvel 1.x. Marvel 1.x had its own licensing system. For now, just ignore the prompts from Marvel asking for a license (annoying, I know, but hopefully a solution will appear soon). ---
**Author:** ![rajesh.govindan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@rajesh.govindan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajesh.govindan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/31 "2016-09-03T14:11:00Z")
I registered and download the license json file. Could you please guide me how to install/upgrade the basic version using Sense plugin or windows command line ---
**Author:** ![skearns](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skearns/32/125945_2.png) [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/32 "2016-09-03T14:29:25Z")
We describe the process in the docs here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/license-management.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/license-management.html) ---
**Author:** ![rajesh.govindan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@rajesh.govindan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajesh.govindan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/33 "2016-09-03T14:53:40Z")
Thanks for your response. I don't have cURL tool in my windows machine. Is there any way upgrade the license using SENSE plugin ? ---
**Author:** ![skearns](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skearns/32/125945_2.png) [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/34 "2016-09-04T12:57:33Z")
Hi Rajesh, Yes, you should be able to install the license via sense. Open the license file in a text editor and copy the whole content - it is JSON formatted. In sense, you can do: ``` PUT /_license < Paste license JSON here> ``` ---
**Author:** ![rajesh.govindan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@rajesh.govindan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajesh.govindan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/35 "2016-09-06T07:06:38Z")
Thanks Steve. I got following response while acknowledging the license update as you suggested through SENSE. { "acknowledged": false, "license\_status": "valid", "acknowledge": { "message": "This license update requires acknowledgement. To acknowledge the license, please read the following messages and update the license again, this time with the "acknowledge=true" parameter:", "marvel": [ "basic", "Automatic index cleanup is locked to 7 days for clusters with [{}] license.basic" ] } } I understood from internet that we need to acknowledge the license update by request again with following command in cURL. curl -XPUT '[http://host](http://host):port/\_license&acknowledge=true' -d @mylicense.json? So, Could you please help me to find the equivalent syntax to acknowledge the license in SENSE ? I am not getting proper references for SENSE in google. ---
**Author:** ![skearns](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skearns/32/125945_2.png) [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/37 "2016-09-06T14:00:22Z")
Hi Rajesh, Actually, it looks like in this case, you just need to add `?acknowledge=true` to the PUT call in Sense, like this: ``` PUT /_license?acknowledge=true < Paste license JSON here > ``` Hope that helps! STeve ---
**Author:** ![rajesh.govindan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@rajesh.govindan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajesh.govindan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/38 "2016-09-08T02:50:06Z")
> [@skearns](#): > > PUT /\_license?acknowledge=true Thanks a lot Steve. It works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Utkarsh\_Pyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a587f6/32.png) [@Utkarsh\_Pyne](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Utkarsh_Pyne)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/39 "2017-04-15T13:04:55Z")
Will importing the new license work for Marvel 1.x ? For some reason I'm still hanging around with ES 1.7, so till I'm not able to migrate my cluster to higher version it would be really awesome if I can use Marvel 1.x for free under the same license as the higher versions of Marvel. ---
**Author:** ![neoes1um](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neoes1um](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/neoes1um)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/40 "2017-06-28T03:47:22Z")
this is great news! ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-is-now-free-for-production/33180/41 "2018-10-30T22:32:13Z")
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