Use of retrievers in the search api

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1

Hi, I'm getting this error below:

{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "security_exception",
        "reason": "current license is non-compliant for [linear retriever]",
        "license.expired.feature": "linear retriever"
      }
    ],
    "type": "security_exception",
    "reason": "current license is non-compliant for [linear retriever]",
    "license.expired.feature": "linear retriever"
  },
  "status": 403
}

es stack version: 9.0.1 with basic licensing .

If I activate the trial, the error disappears.

In the basic licence for self-hosted instances, the retriever feature is marked as free.
However, when I tried to use the linear retriever, I encountered an error related to a licensing issue.

Please clarify this in the documentation or provide any details on how to proceed.

Thanks.

2

Thanks @aperez900907 for reaching out!

Yes, RRF and linear retrievers are under Enterprise license. We're updating the docs with that information.

Sorry for the confusion this has caused!

3

Thanks for the clarification. I will use both retrievers separately and merge the responses into a single object to deduplicate and rerank outside Elasticsearch.

Thanks, I hope that the roadmap includes more features in the basic offering without harming your business model.

Best regards.