# X-pack / shield **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 15, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-shield/237191 "2020-06-15T22:38:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jerry\_Hoffmeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90ced4/32.png) [@Jerry\_Hoffmeister](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jerry_Hoffmeister)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-shield/237191/1 "2020-06-15T22:38:31Z")
Hi, Where can I see clearly which parts of x-pack are free and which require a subscription? We have a subscription but are spinning up a new dev effort and are trying to figure out what we can do at least for now with the community version. Thanks! ---
**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:** [June 15, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-shield/237191/2 "2020-06-15T23:16:37Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) should be what you want. We don't have a community version though, we have the default and OSS distributions. ---
**Author:** ![Jerry\_Hoffmeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90ced4/32.png) [@Jerry\_Hoffmeister](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jerry_Hoffmeister)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-shield/237191/3 "2020-06-15T23:41:35Z")
Yes, yes, I'm using the wrong term. And of course after I asked this question, I found that page. Looks like Shield is free but Watcher is not. I'll open a support case to make sure I fully understand what the details of our subscription is and what we're currently using. I'm new to the team with the subscription but not new to Elastic - my "other" team currently uses the OSS distribution for monitoring only. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-shield/237191/4 "2020-06-15T23:43:19Z")
Shield doesn't exist anymore, it's Security. There are also aspects of Alerting that are free 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jerry\_Hoffmeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90ced4/32.png) [@Jerry\_Hoffmeister](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jerry_Hoffmeister)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-shield/237191/5 "2020-06-15T23:50:00Z")
Yes, yes, I groked that too 🙂 My new team is running 6.4.2. Can the same team run nodes under license and run OSS versions that only use the free features? I also don't know enough about the new team's application to know if we even need a license. My old team uses elastic to monitor a java application and we have a in-house written "watcher" that we use to talk to Service Now... And we're running version 5.6.5 ☹ mainly because I haven't taken the time to upgrade and we've discussed moving it to the cloud. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-shield/237191/6 "2020-06-15T23:52:23Z")
You should look at newer versions, especially 7.8 when it arrives very soon. I think you will find there's quite a of free and open improvements and functionality. ---
**Author:** ![Jerry\_Hoffmeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90ced4/32.png) [@Jerry\_Hoffmeister](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jerry_Hoffmeister)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-shield/237191/7 "2020-06-15T23:55:04Z")
That's good to know especially for my new team's use cases. Thanks for the quick and helpful responses. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-shield/237191/8 "2020-07-13T23:55:13Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.