Running Elastic without the Trial License

Question

Background: I\'m trying to use the Elastic stack (Elastic, Logstash & Kibana), but I have no money to pay. I don\'t mind using the parts that are c

Answer 1

Elastic have published a apache-only-open-source distro with just free components:

https://www.elastic.co/es/downloads/elasticsearch-oss

On the other side, AWS have taken last apache-open source versions from Elastic-Apache and have created a new open source distro forking from that and including new functionalities, and functionalities that are no more open source in last Elastic version, like Kibana

https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/downloads.html

To know more about the licenses war: https://grafana.com/blog/2019/03/20/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-oss-licensing-war-part-1./

Answer 2

Since version 6.5 there is not a standalone x-Pack plugin anymore, all the x-pack features are integrated in the Elastic Stack.

If you want to run the Elastic Stack using only the free features, which means that you will use the free basic license, you need to set your license in the elasticsearch.yml file using the line below (more info):

xpack.license.self_generated.type: basic

This will disable the trial and enable only the free features.

If you want to run the stack using only the features licensed under Apache 2.0 license (the open source version), you need to download the oss packages for elasticsearch, kibana and logstash.

You can download it here: elasticsearch-oss,kibana-oss and logstash-oss

You can see the differences between the OSS version and the Free Basic license in the subscriptions page.