# What will happen when the license expired?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-will-happen-when-the-license-expired/67751
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 1, 2016, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-will-happen-when-the-license-expired/67751 "2016-12-01T11:41:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@famoss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/famoss)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-will-happen-when-the-license-expired/67751/1 "2016-12-01T11:41:13Z")
What will happen when the license expired?`Es cluster` can't index any data? Authorization failure?
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### Author:  [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-will-happen-when-the-license-expired/67751/2 "2016-12-01T21:34:50Z")
Hey there, don't worry nothing catastrophic will happen. From the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/license-expiration.html):
> Commercial plugins operate with reduced functionality on license expiration:
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> - shield
> - Cluster health, cluster stats and indices stats operations are blocked
> - All data operations (read and write) continue to work
> - watcher
> - PUT / GET watch APIs are disabled, DELETE watch API continues to work
> - Watches execute and write to the history
> - The actions of the watches don't execute
> - monitoring
> - The agent will stop collecting cluster and indices metrics
> - The agent will stop automatically cleaning indices older than [xpack.monitoring.history.duration]
> - graph
> - Graph explore APIs are disabled
Thanks,
CJ
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### Author:  [@bohyun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bohyun)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2016, 5:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-will-happen-when-the-license-expired/67751/3 "2016-12-02T05:29:24Z")
Hi famoss,
After your license is expired, you should be able to register for the basic license to continue to use your Elasticsearch cluster for dev use (e.g. index any data) and take advantage of the Monitoring feature from X-Pack. Using the basic license, the Security feature will be disabled, however.
Please visit our subscription [page](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) for more details and the basic license registration [page](https://register.elastic.co/) to apply for one.
Thanks,
Bohyun
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2016, 5:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-will-happen-when-the-license-expired/67751/4 "2016-12-30T05:29:27Z")
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