topic Re: Could not apply Free license in Splunk Enterprise

Could not apply Free license

lynxmaestro — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:37:39 GMT

Hi,

We had the following error when trying access a lost, but we never exceeded the 500MB limit daily.

Error in 'litsearch' command: Your Splunk Light license expired or you have exceeded your license limit too many times. Renew your Splunk Light license by visiting visiting www.splunk.com/goto/estore

So I attempted upgrading the software to latest, but now it shows

"Could not apply Free license"

How can we get this sorted so that we're good with the <500MB par?

Regards,
Kev

Re: Could not apply Free license

skalliger — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:15:22 GMT

Did you already try to restart the instance?

Skalli

Re: Could not apply Free license

lynxmaestro — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:56:08 GMT

Yes, multiple times.

Re: Could not apply Free license

ashajambagi — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:11:22 GMT

How long have you been using free license?
Check _internal for any other error.

Re: Could not apply Free license

lynxmaestro — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:10:27 GMT

its been only few months (2-3).

Check _internal for any other error.
I don't really get this. Can you please let me know the exact file location to check?

Re: Could not apply Free license

ashajambagi — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:22:40 GMT

you can check by searching : index=_internal on ui
OR
$SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log on cli

Re: Could not apply Free license

nboulet — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:16:03 GMT

hello

same here, i upgrade to last version of splunk, i have a button after the login to "change to splunk light free", but after that i have the error : Could not apply Free license

Re: Could not apply Free license

nboulet — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:19:46 GMT

hello, same here, i pass to last version of Splunk, and now i have a button to "Change to Splunk Light Free" ; but after i click i have the error "Could not apply Free license"