Other types of licenses

Splunk provides other licenses for specific uses:

The Splunk Enterprise Trial license

When you download and install Splunk Enterprise, a Splunk Enterprise Trial license is automatically generated for that instance. The following important points apply to the Enterprise Trial license:

  • The Enterprise Trial license gives access to all Splunk Enterprise features.
  • The Enterprise Trial license is for standalone, single-instance installations of Splunk Enterprise only.
  • The Enterprise Trial license cannot be stacked with other licenses.
  • The Enterprise Trial license expires 60 days after you install the Splunk Enterprise instance, unless otherwise specified to customers.
  • The Enterprise Trial license allows you to index 500 MB of data per day to Splunk Enterprise. If you exceed that limit you receive a license warning.
  • The Enterprise Trial license prevents searching if there are a set number of license warnings. To learn about license warnings and violation, see What happens during a license violation?
Note: If you want to set up a trial Splunk Enterprise distributed deployment consisting of multiple Splunk Enterprise instances communicating with each other, each instance must use its own self-generated Enterprise Trial license. You cannot use centralized license management with the Enterprise Trial license.

If you need a more customized version of a trial license to prepare a pilot or proof of concept for a large deployment or with a longer duration or indexing volume, Contact Splunk or your sales representative with your request.

Free license

The Free license allows a completely free Splunk Enterprise instance with limited functionality and license usage. The following important points apply to the Free license:

  • The Free license gives access to a limited set of Splunk Enterprise features.
  • The Free license is for a standalone, single-instance installation of Splunk Enterprise only.
  • The Free license cannot be stacked with other licenses.
  • The Free license does not expire.
  • The Free license allows you to index 500 MB of data per day. If you exceed that you will receive a license warning.
  • The Free license prevents searching if there are a number of license warnings. To learn about license warnings and violation, see What happens during a license violation?

For a list of features that are disabled in Splunk Free, see About Splunk Free.

Pre-release license

Splunk invites certain customers to participate in its pre-release programs from time to time. These pre-release licenses are subject to certain beta terms similar to those in the Splunk Pre-release Software License Agreement, where users are limited to using a newer version of Splunk Enterprise for testing and evaluation purposes only. These licenses are not compatible with other Splunk software releases. Pre-release licenses typically enable specific Splunk Enterprise features for a specified testing duration.