Start a trial Generally available; Added in 6.1.0

POST /_license/start_trial

Start a 30-day trial, which gives access to all subscription features.

NOTE: You are allowed to start a trial only if your cluster has not already activated a trial for the current major product version. For example, if you have already activated a trial for v8.0, you cannot start a new trial until v9.0. You can, however, request an extended trial at https://www.elastic.co/trialextension.

To check the status of your trial, use the get trial status API. ##Required authorization

  • Cluster privileges: manage

Query parameters

  • acknowledge boolean

    whether the user has acknowledged acknowledge messages (default: false)

  • type_query_string string
  • master_timeout string

    Period to wait for a connection to the master node.

    Values are -1 or 0.

Responses

  • 200 application/json
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    • acknowledged boolean Required
    • error_message string
    • trial_was_started boolean Required
    • type string

      Values are missing, trial, basic, standard, dev, silver, gold, platinum, or enterprise.
POST /_license/start_trial 
POST /_license/start_trial?acknowledge=true

curl \
 --request POST 'http://api.example.com/_license/start_trial'
Response examples (200)
A successful response from `POST /_license/start_trial?acknowledge=true`. 
{
  "trial_was_started": true,
  "acknowledged": true
}

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