# Will packetbeat remain free?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-packetbeat-remain-free/1580>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** packetbeat\
**Created:** [May 30, 2015, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-packetbeat-remain-free/1580 "2015-05-30T05:43:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kitex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@kitex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kitex)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-packetbeat-remain-free/1580/1 "2015-05-30T05:43:20Z")

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I was wondering if packetbeat will remail free?

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-packetbeat-remain-free/1580/2 "2015-06-02T15:03:34Z")

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Yes, for sure. Packetbeat remains open source.

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**Author:** ![monica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monica/32/3696_2.png) [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-packetbeat-remain-free/1580/3 "2015-06-08T15:11:52Z")

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Yes. Moreover the license changed from GPL v2 to Apache.

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**Author:** ![ravitandur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ravitandur/32/4568_2.png) [@ravitandur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ravitandur)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-packetbeat-remain-free/1580/4 "2015-09-03T14:58:22Z")

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Hi Monica/Tudor,

I was using the ELK stack for some time for central logging.  
And we are using some commercial monitoring tool for monitoring/alerting.  
It seems the commercial tool is monolithic and not able to handle the load from 2000 servers.  
Few days back I gone through your recorded webinar on PacketBeat and really got impressed.  
I have some other ideas, can u please share ur mail id so we can discuss in detail.

Thanks,  
Ravi

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-packetbeat-remain-free/1580/5 "2015-09-04T19:25:59Z")

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Hi @ravitandur, thanks for the kind works. We would be happy to discuss, you can email me at tudor at elastic.co.

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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 5, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-packetbeat-remain-free/1580/6 "2017-07-05T21:58:51Z")

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