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I am new to x-pack and I would like to know whether x-pack is an open source or paid. I was not able to get any information from the elastic website regarding this. Thanks in advance.

UMA MAHESWAR
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    this answer may help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53201190/is-security-free-in-elastic-search-stack-features/53201341#53201341 – Val Jan 24 '19 at 12:01
  • @Val thanks for this comment. As i read somewhere that X-pack is open now and as i didn't find it in subscriptions page, i was quite confused.Thanks once again. – UMA MAHESWAR Jan 24 '19 at 12:08
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    XPack is open, which means you have free access to the [source code](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/master/x-pack), but open != free. There are some XPack features that are free and will always be, but some others will still require a subscription as mentioned in the post I linked to. – Val Jan 24 '19 at 12:14
  • @Val can you please mention the list of free features in x-pack so that it will be helpful for me as well as to everyone who view this post. – UMA MAHESWAR Jan 25 '19 at 07:26
  • If you click on the link I shared, it's shown in the first two columns of the first image – Val Jan 25 '19 at 08:16

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Short answer is that X-Pack has been open-sourced but not all features are free to use. You need a paid subscription to use all features after a 30-day trial.

I'll quote from the official FAQ rather than rehashing.

If the code of X-Pack is open, does that mean it's all free?

No. Many features in X-Pack are free, such as monitoring, tile maps, Grok Debugger, and Search Profiler. Some features in X-Pack are paid, and require a license that comes with a Gold or Platinum subscription.

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