- X-Pack Reference for 6.0-6.2 and 5.x:
- Introduction
- Setting Up X-Pack
- Breaking Changes
- X-Pack APIs
- Graphing Connections in Your Data
- Profiling your Queries and Aggregations
- Reporting from Kibana
- Securing the Elastic Stack
- Getting Started with Security
- How Security Works
- Setting Up User Authentication
- Configuring SAML Single-Sign-On on the Elastic Stack
- Configuring Role-based Access Control
- Auditing Security Events
- Encrypting Communications
- Restricting Connections with IP Filtering
- Cross Cluster Search, Tribe, Clients and Integrations
- Reference
- Monitoring the Elastic Stack
- Alerting on Cluster and Index Events
- Machine Learning in the Elastic Stack
- Troubleshooting
- Getting Help
- X-Pack security
- Can’t log in after upgrading to 6.2.4
- Some settings are not returned via the nodes settings API
- Authorization exceptions
- Users command fails due to extra arguments
- Users are frequently locked out of Active Directory
- Certificate verification fails for curl on Mac
- SSLHandshakeException causes connections to fail
- Common SSL/TLS exceptions
- Internal Server Error in Kibana
- Setup-passwords command fails due to connection failure
- X-Pack Watcher
- X-Pack monitoring
- X-Pack machine learning
- Limitations
- License Management
- Release Notes
WARNING: Version 6.2 of the Elastic Stack has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
License Management
editLicense Management
editIf a license is not already registered for the cluster, when you install X-Pack and start the cluster, it generates a basic license.
If you want to try all of the X-Pack features, you can start a 30-day trial. At the end of the trial period, you can purchase a subscription to keep using the full functionality of the X-Pack components.
When your license expires, X-Pack operates in a degraded mode. For more information, see License Expiration.
Generating a Trial License
editYou can initiate a trial license only if your cluster has not already activated a trial license for the current major X-Pack version. For example, if you have already activated a trial for v6.0, you cannot start a new trial until v7.0. To check whether you can initiate a trial in your cluster, use the get trial status API.
To start a trial, use the start trial API.
For more information, see X-Pack License Settings.
Updating Your License
editYou can update your license at runtime without shutting down your nodes. License updates take effect immediately. The license is provided as a JSON file that you install with the update license API.
Viewing the Installed License
editYou can use the get license API to retrieve the currently installed license.