# Product LIcencing is Daunting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/product-licencing-is-daunting/38800>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 10, 2016, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/product-licencing-is-daunting/38800 "2016-01-10T06:36:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![teslan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@teslan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teslan)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/product-licencing-is-daunting/38800/1 "2016-01-10T06:36:32Z")

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I am new and I am confused as to what is free and what comes with a fee?

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**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:** [January 10, 2016, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/product-licencing-is-daunting/38800/2 "2016-01-10T09:01:09Z")

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Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats and es-hadoop are all open source and Apache licensed.

Shield, Watcher and commercially licensed and are proprietary.

Marvel is proprietary code but free, and you have to register for a free license to continue using it.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/product-licencing-is-daunting/38800/3 "2017-07-05T23:25:42Z")

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