# Watcher license for monitoring cluster

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-license-for-monitoring-cluster/59703
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [September 2, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-license-for-monitoring-cluster/59703 "2016-09-02T19:17:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![kiran\_kumar\_s.n](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kiran\_kumar\_s.n](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kiran_kumar_s.n)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-license-for-monitoring-cluster/59703/1 "2016-09-02T19:17:02Z")

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Hello,

I have an elastic cluster of 20 nodes, and am planning on setting up a separate monitoring cluster with watcher of 2 nodes.  
When I request for a license (Gold subscription) for watcher, will it be enough if I get licenses for just the monitoring cluster of 2 nodes?

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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: [September 2, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-license-for-monitoring-cluster/59703/2 "2016-09-02T23:58:50Z")

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Please contact [sales@elastic.co](mailto:sales@elastic.co), they can help you out 🙂

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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/watcher-license-for-monitoring-cluster/59703/3 "2017-07-06T13:43:09Z")

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