# "We Opened X-Pack" **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 6, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143 "2018-08-06T10:37:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gosforth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@Gosforth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gosforth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143/1 "2018-08-06T10:37:31Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open](https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open) What does it mean? What I see it still requires license to run: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/configuring-security.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/configuring-security.html) There is no way to secure community edition with password? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143/2 "2018-08-06T10:39:21Z")
There's no such thing as a Community Edition, there's the Open Source and then the X-Pack addons. > [@Gosforth](#): > > What does it mean? From that link; > Many features in X-Pack are free, such as monitoring, tile maps, Grok Debugger, and Search Profiler. Some features in X-Pack are paid, and require a license that comes with a Gold or Platinum subscription. Security is still a commercially licensed product. ---
**Author:** ![Gosforth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@Gosforth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gosforth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143/3 "2018-08-06T10:45:18Z")
Database without any security is quite useless... No place within companies. Moreover no info on page how much this x-pack costs. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143/4 "2018-08-06T10:47:01Z")
Have a read of [https://www.elastic.co/blog/doubling-down-on-open](https://www.elastic.co/blog/doubling-down-on-open), it might make it clearer why we take the path we do. ---
**Author:** ![Gosforth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@Gosforth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gosforth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143/5 "2018-08-06T10:50:19Z")
How much it cost to secure database with password (to have this x-pack)? I do not have time to write poems and wait for calculation. I need it for one simple database; one host, one 'cluster'. ---
**Author:** ![lukas\_vlcek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@lukas\_vlcek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas_vlcek)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143/6 "2018-08-06T11:04:13Z")
Gosforth, if you need to cover simple security scenario then may be you can check 3rd party plugins, like this one: [https://search-guard.com/licensing/](https://search-guard.com/licensing/) Regards, Lukáš ---
**Author:** ![Gosforth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@Gosforth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gosforth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143/7 "2018-08-06T11:11:57Z")
Thanks. Tried that and no way to make it run; all the time time error - cannot run open SSL library. ---
**Author:** ![lukas\_vlcek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@lukas\_vlcek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas_vlcek)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143/8 "2018-08-06T11:26:45Z")
Did you try contacting [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/search-guard](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/search-guard) ? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143/9 "2018-08-06T21:10:51Z")
I don't have that information sorry, but I can ask someone to send it to you. You can also look at our hosted Elasticsearch Service - [https://cloud.elastic.co/pricing](https://cloud.elastic.co/pricing) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-opened-x-pack/143143/10 "2018-09-03T21:10:54Z")
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