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

Responses

POST /_license/start_trial?acknowledge=true
resp = client.license.post_start_trial(
    acknowledge=True,
)
const response = await client.license.postStartTrial({
  acknowledge: "true",
});
response = client.license.post_start_trial(
  acknowledge: "true"
)
$resp = $client->license()->postStartTrial([
    "acknowledge" => "true",
]);
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY" "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_license/start_trial?acknowledge=true"
Response examples (200)
A successful response from `POST /_license/start_trial?acknowledge=true`.
{
  "trial_was_started": true,
  "acknowledged": true
}