X-Pack is an elastic offering that enables security, alerting, monitoring, and graph functionality for Elasticsearch. X-Pack requires a paid license to use all the features. When you install X-pack for the first time, you are given a 30-day trial. The basic or free version will provide only monitoring. The other features are available with a paid subscription. In this section, we will install X-Pack and discuss on how to update your license to basic if you are not planning to buy a license. For more details on all the subscription offerings of Elasticsearch, please visit the following link:
https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions
X-Pack monitoring, which is part of basic or free license, provides UI with easy-to-read graphs to monitor nodes and the indexes. It is available via Kibana. To use X-Pack, you need both Elasticsearch and Kibana. For instructions on how to install...
