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[DOCS] Adds Kibana expiration behaviour (#685)
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[[installing-license]]
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== Updating Your license
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== Updating your license
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You can update your license at runtime without shutting down your nodes. License
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updates take effect immediately. The license is provided as a _JSON_ file that
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disabled if you fail to update the license.
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[[expiration-kibana]]
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=== Kibana
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* Users can still log into {kib}.
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* It is still usable for data exploration and visualization, but some features
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are disabled.
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* The license management UI is available to easily upgrade your license. See
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<<installing-license>> and
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{kibana-ref}/managing-licenses.html[License management].
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[[expiration-watcher]]
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=== Watcher
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* PUT / GET watch APIs will be disabled, DELETE watch API will continue to work
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* Watches will execute and write to the history
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* The actions of the watches will not execute
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* The PUT and GET watch APIs are disabled. The DELETE watch API continues to work.
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* Watches execute and write to the history.
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* The actions of the watches do not execute.
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[[expiration-monitoring]]
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=== Monitoring
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* The agent will stop collecting cluster and indices metrics
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* The agent will stop automatically cleaning indices older than `xpack.monitoring.history.duration`
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* The agent stops collecting cluster and indices metrics.
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* The agent stops automatically cleaning indices older than
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`xpack.monitoring.history.duration`.
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[[expiration-graph]]
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=== Graph
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* Graph explore APIs will be disabled
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* Graph explore APIs are disabled.
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[[expiration-reporting]]
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=== Reporting
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* Reporting will no longer be available in {kib}
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* Report generation urls will stop working
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* Existing reports will no longer be accessible
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* Reporting is no longer be available in {kib}.
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* Report generation URLs stop working.
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* Existing reports are no longer accessible.
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[[expiration-security]]
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=== Security
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* Cluster health, cluster stats and indices stats operations will be blocked
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* All data operations (read and write) will continue to work
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* Cluster health, cluster stats, and indices stats operations are blocked.
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* All data operations (read and write) continue to work.
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Once the license expires, calls to the cluster health, cluster stats, and index
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stats APIs fail with a `security_exception` and return a 403 HTTP status code.
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[[expiration-ml]]
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=== Machine learning
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* APIs to create jobs, open jobs, send data to jobs, create {dfeeds}, and start
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{dfeeds} will be disabled
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* All started {dfeeds} will be stopped. All open jobs will be closed
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* Existing job results will continue to be available by using {kib} or APIs
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{dfeeds} are disabled.
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* All started {dfeeds} are stopped. All open jobs are closed.
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* Existing job results continue to be available by using {kib} or APIs.
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=== Logstash Pipeline Management
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* Will not be able to create new pipelines and edit or delete existing pipelines from the UI
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* Will be able to list and view existing pipelines from the UI
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* Will be able to run Logstash instances which are registered to listen to existing pipelines
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[[expiration-logstash]]
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=== Logstash pipeline management
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* Cannot create new pipelines or edit or delete existing pipelines from the UI.
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* Cannot list or view existing pipelines from the UI.
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* Cannot run Logstash instances which are registered to listen to existing pipelines.
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IMPORTANT: You should update your license as soon as possible. You are
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essentially flying blind when running with an expired license. Access to the

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