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Updating Your License
editUpdating 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 license
API.
When Security is enabled, you need cluster admin privileges to install the license.
The built-in elastic
user has the required privileges.
To update your license:
-
Send a request to the
license
API and specify the file that contains your new license:curl -XPUT -u elastic 'http://<host>:<port>/_xpack/license' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @license.json
Or on windows machine:
gc .\license.json | Invoke-WebRequest -uri http://<host>:<port>/_xpack/license -Credential elastic -Method Put
Where:
-
elastic
is the built-in super user. The default password ischangeme
. If you haven’t already, change the default password. Any user with cluster admin privileges can install the license. -
<host>
is the hostname of the Elasticsearch node (localhost
if executing locally) -
<port>
is the http port (defaults to9200
) -
license.json
is the license JSON file
-
-
If the license you are installing does not support all of the features available with your previous license, you will be notified in the response. To complete the license installation, you must resubmit the license update request and set the
acknowledge
parameter totrue
to indicate that you are aware of the changes.curl -XPUT -u elastic 'http://<host>:<port>/_xpack/license?acknowledge=true' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @license.json