# Will the X-Pack role-based access control be available after the expiration date?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-the-x-pack-role-based-access-control-be-available-after-the-expiration-date/89029>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 12, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-the-x-pack-role-based-access-control-be-available-after-the-expiration-date/89029 "2017-06-12T11:42:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Muhammad-Ezzat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/muhammad-ezzat/32/43652_2.png) [@Muhammad-Ezzat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad-Ezzat)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-the-x-pack-role-based-access-control-be-available-after-the-expiration-date/89029/1 "2017-06-12T11:42:21Z")

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**This is what i found in the X-Pack documentation about the functionality that won't be available after the expiration date. But it's not clear if the role-based access control will be available or not.**

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License [will expire] on [Friday, December 30, 2016]. If you have a new license, please update it.  
Otherwise, please reach out to your support contact.

Commercial plugins operate with reduced functionality on license expiration:

- security
- 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

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-the-x-pack-role-based-access-control-be-available-after-the-expiration-date/89029/2 "2017-06-12T13:04:33Z")

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No, role based security is not functional once your license expires.

There's more details here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/license-expiration.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/license-expiration.html)

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**Author:** ![Muhammad-Ezzat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/muhammad-ezzat/32/43652_2.png) [@Muhammad-Ezzat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad-Ezzat)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-the-x-pack-role-based-access-control-be-available-after-the-expiration-date/89029/3 "2017-06-12T14:27:30Z")

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Thank you @TimV

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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 10, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-the-x-pack-role-based-access-control-be-available-after-the-expiration-date/89029/4 "2017-07-10T14:28:11Z")

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