# Unable to retrive licence while trying to run logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-retrive-licence-while-trying-to-run-logstash/241386
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 16, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-retrive-licence-while-trying-to-run-logstash/241386 "2020-07-16T05:18:27Z")
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### Author:  [@vkg0312](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vkg0312)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-retrive-licence-while-trying-to-run-logstash/241386/1 "2020-07-16T05:18:27Z")
Error 2:
[2020-07-09T15:58:54,431][ERROR][logstash.licensechecker.licensereader] Unable to retrieve license information from license server {:message=\>"Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?"
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### Author:  [@tbege](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbege)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-retrive-licence-while-trying-to-run-logstash/241386/2 "2020-07-16T05:56:49Z")
Could you post your Logstash config so we can form a better idea of what you are doing?
I had the license checker error as well, albeit not with SSL, and the problem was I misconfigured the xpack monitoring in Logstash in the logstash.yaml...
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-retrive-licence-while-trying-to-run-logstash/241386/3 "2020-08-13T05:57:01Z")
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