# Uninstall marvel: stubborn

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uninstall-marvel-stubborn/51626>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [June 1, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uninstall-marvel-stubborn/51626 "2016-06-01T22:16:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![yahoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/898d66/32.png) [@yahoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yahoo)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uninstall-marvel-stubborn/51626/1 "2016-06-01T22:16:05Z")

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Hi  
I uninstalled marvel from elasticsearch 2.1.1 and kibana 4.3.1  
as described in  
`https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/marvel/2.3/installing-marvel.html#uninstalling-marvel`  
and it confirmed that the plugin was removed.  
I restarted ES and KB.

However, I get the message on the elasticsearch screen

```
    [2016-06-01 09:27:16,207][ERROR][license.plugin.core] [m_node_1]
    #
    # LICENSE EXPIRED ON [Saturday, May 21, 2016]. IF YOU HAVE A NEW LICENSE, PLEASE
    # UPDATE IT. OTHERWISE, PLEASE REACH OUT TO YOUR SUPPORT CONTACT.

```

Then deleted the .marvel indices from ES.

However, I still get the message.

how can I get rid of the message?

Thanks

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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:** [June 1, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uninstall-marvel-stubborn/51626/2 "2016-06-01T23:10:49Z")

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Remove the license plugin as well.

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**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:** [June 2, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uninstall-marvel-stubborn/51626/3 "2016-06-02T00:38:28Z")

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As Mark noted:

```auto
$ bin/plugin remove license

```

Then restart the node. With ES 5.0+ it will be a combined plugin, so this kind of annoyance will go away.

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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 6, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uninstall-marvel-stubborn/51626/4 "2017-07-06T13:43:18Z")

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