Start a trial | Elasticsearch API (v8)

Start a trial Added in 6.1.0

POST /_license/start_trial

Start a 30-day trial, which gives access to all subscription features.

NOTE: You are allowed to start a trial only if your cluster has not already activated a trial for the current major product version. For example, if you have already activated a trial for v8.0, you cannot start a new trial until v9.0. You can, however, request an extended trial at https://www.elastic.co/trialextension.

To check the status of your trial, use the get trial status API.

Query parameters

acknowledge boolean

whether the user has acknowledged acknowledge messages (default: false)
type_query_string string

Responses

200 application/json
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- acknowledged boolean Required
- error_message string
- trial_was_started boolean Required
- type string
  
  Values are missing, trial, basic, standard, dev, silver, gold, platinum, or enterprise.

POST /_license/start_trial

curl \
 -X POST http://api.example.com/_license/start_trial

Response examples (200)

{
  "acknowledged": true,
  "error_message": "string",
  "trial_was_started": true,
  "type": "missing"
}