# What is elasticsearch xpack? it is available for all elasticsearch versions ? example 4

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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 11, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-elasticsearch-xpack-it-is-available-for-all-elasticsearch-versions-example-4/248262 "2020-09-11T05:18:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![muthug](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/muthug/32/82555_2.png) [@muthug](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muthug)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-elasticsearch-xpack-it-is-available-for-all-elasticsearch-versions-example-4/248262/1 "2020-09-11T05:18:41Z")

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what is elasticsearch xpack? it is available for all elasticsearch versions ? example version 4.2  
Kibana 4.2

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-elasticsearch-xpack-it-is-available-for-all-elasticsearch-versions-example-4/248262/2 "2020-09-11T05:26:17Z")

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Kibana 4.2 as far as I recall requires Elasticsearch 2.0, which [has been EOL for over 3 years](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol) now. Back then there was no X-Pack and commercial features were provided as separate plugins instead of being grouped under X-Pack. There was also no free Basic license level back then.

In order to benefit from X-Pack you will therefore need to upgrade to a considerably more recent version. Given the age of your current cluster this is something I would highly recommend.

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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:** [October 9, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-elasticsearch-xpack-it-is-available-for-all-elasticsearch-versions-example-4/248262/3 "2020-10-09T05:26:22Z")

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