# "reason": "current license is non-compliant for \[shield\]", **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 10, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reason-current-license-is-non-compliant-for-shield/46926 "2016-04-10T23:09:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@boreal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/boreal)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reason-current-license-is-non-compliant-for-shield/46926/1 "2016-04-10T23:09:31Z")
Hi, we were using Shield with our cluster and the 30-day license expired so we are getting limited access to the cluster (no health etc) per ES document. It turns out that we didn't need Shield after all, so we uninstalled it, but we are still getting the same error. Is there anyway to be able to access the closer health etc again? Thanks! B ---
**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:** [April 10, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reason-current-license-is-non-compliant-for-shield/46926/2 "2016-04-10T23:15:41Z")
Did you restart ES after uninstalling the plugin? ---
**Author:** ![boreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@boreal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/boreal)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reason-current-license-is-non-compliant-for-shield/46926/3 "2016-04-11T00:24:54Z")
Thanks!! Restarting did the trick! B ---
**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, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reason-current-license-is-non-compliant-for-shield/46926/4 "2017-07-05T23:00:51Z")