Start a basic license

POST /_license/start_basic

Auth

Start an indefinite basic license, which gives access to all the basic features.

Note

In order to start a basic license, you must not currently have a basic license.

If the basic license does not support all of the features that are available with your current license, however, you are notified in the response. You must then re-submit the API request with the acknowledge parameter set to true.

To check the status of your basic license, use the get basic license API.

Required authorization

Cluster privileges manage

Query parameters

acknowledge boolean · default: false: To start a basic license, you must accept the acknowledge messages and set this parameter to true.
master_timeout string · default: 30s: Period to wait for a connection to the master node.
timeout string · default: 30s: Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.

Response

application/json

acknowledged boolean required
basic_was_started boolean required
error_message string
type enum: Values: missing trial basic standard dev silver gold platinum enterprise
acknowledge map string to string | string[]