Core components of the Elastic Stack from version 7. 11 should no longer run under Apache 2.0 License must be available.

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The Elasticsearch search engine and the Kibana visualization tool will no longer be available as free software under the Apache 2.0 license are available. Elasticsearch BV announced this in a blog post. In the future, there will be a choice between the Elastic License already offered and the Server Side Public License (SSPL) used by MongoDB, for example.

Elastic names the reason for the license change – similar to MongoDB – the commercial exploitation by third parties who offer the Elastic Stack as software as a service without giving anything back. Ultimately, this harms the entire user community. The vast majority of users are not affected by the change.

The Elastic Stack is currently in version 7. 10. 2 published. In addition to Elasticsearch and Kibana, this includes Beats for collecting and Logstash for preparing data. The areas of application of the Elastic Stack range from logging and monitoring of complex environments to complex data analysis.

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