licensing

Are you using Elasticsearch? You are probably paying too much

Daniel Gleim || 2025-04-01

For users of Elasticsearch Enterprise, the free Search Guard Community Edition offers an excellent way to transition while retaining key security features.

Understanding the AGPL License

|| 2025-01-07

In this blog, we’ll break down the key aspects of the AGPL, including its unique provisions, the concept of "copyleft," and the advantages and disadvantages.

Search Guard Scientific and Educational Programme

Enhancing Academic and Scientific Research with Search Guard's Free Licensing Programme

Jochen Kressin || 2024-07-01

Search Guard's Academic and Scientific License Programme offers full enterprise features at no cost for eligible institutions.

Elastic license changes do not affect Search Guard

Jochen Kressin || 2021-08-04

The changes in the Elastic license schema do not affect Search Guard in any way. We continue to support new Elasticsearch version as they come out.

Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Jochen Kressin || 2021-02-03

Elastic will change the license for Elasticsearch and Kibana from Apache2 to the non Open Source SSPL license.

Search Guard Academic & Scientific programme

Claudia Kressin || 2020-06-02

We provide Search Guard Enterprise and Compliance licenses free of charge to non-profit academic and scientific corporations

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