Trial licence — request and delivery
Five steps, and the licence never touches a public page.
The public site takes a request. Everything after that happens behind a verified account, because a signed entitlement document naming your organisation is not something to leave on a marketing page.
WALK THE FLOW
Step one · on the public site
Request a trial
Five fields, one of them optional. Nothing is downloadable from this page.
Your name
Who the organisation’s first administrator will be.
Work email
The single-use link goes here, so it has to be an address you can read today.
Company
Your organisation on the Console is named from this.
Product lines you want to try
ticked from the published catalogue
The list is the same one the licence gate enforces, so the form never offers a line nobody can issue.
Mobile number
optional — only used to reach you about this trial
Before you submit
One automatic trial per organisation
A second request from the same address or the same company email domain is held for our team rather than started.
The clock starts at issue, not at install
Thirty days from when the licence is issued, which is when you open the link.
Nothing is downloaded
The trial runs in your own organisation on the EventLake Console, behind a sign-in you set up.
Every request gets the same answer here: check your email. A repeat is not mailed, and our team is in touch instead. The page does not say which happened, so it cannot be used to learn who already uses EventLake.
Step two · verification
Check r.okafor@northwind-logistics.example
We sent a single-use link that works for 24 hours. Opening it proves the address is yours, and it is the only step between this page and your own organisation.
If nothing arrives, our team has the request and will be in touch; the page answers every request the same way.
If nothing arrives, our team has the request and will be in touch; the page answers every request the same way.
Wrong address? Submit the form again with the right one. A second request from the same company email domain is held for our team rather than started automatically, so a typo costs a short wait, not a second trial.
What the link does not do
It does not carry the licence or a password, and it never will. It opens the Console’s trial page, which creates your organisation. Mail forwards, archives and lands in shared inboxes, so it carries a key that works once and nothing else.
Step three · the account
Verified. Set up your sign-in.
Opening the link created your organisation with you as its first administrator, and took you straight to setting up your sign-in. There is no second email.
Your sign-in
You set it up yourself on the invitation page the link hands you to. No password is ever sent.
Colleagues
As administrator you invite them from the Console and choose each person’s role.
Why an account at all
Because the licence belongs to an organisation, not to a mailbox. The Console is where its status is shown, where colleagues are added, and where every action is recorded against a person.
Step four · delivery
Your 30-day trial licence is issued.
Organisation
Northwind Logistics Ltd
Term
30 days from today
Product lines
SIEM, Posture
Licence reference
HX-4F2A-9E17-K3QD
Where it lives
Your organisation’s Console, under Licence. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is emailed.
If this is not your first trial
A first trial is issued on the spot. If you have had one before, your organisation is still created, and the licence request waits for our team instead of being issued automatically. The Console says which.
the trial is live
The Sensor is not gated
Install EventLake Sensor on as many machines as you like during the trial. The software carries no authority of its own, so putting a door in front of it would protect nothing and slow the evaluation down.
How to install it
On your own hardware
For an evaluation on-premise, our team issues a signed licence. An administrator imports it on the node under Node › Licence, and the node verifies it offline, without contacting us.
Step five · licence status
Northwind Logistics Ltd — trial
Days remaining
18
of 30, from issue on 9 August
Yesterday's volume
612 GB
metered every day, never paused
Machines reporting
377
not a limit — shown for sizing
If you reach the ceiling
Ingest keeps running, because stopping it would destroy the evidence of the very day in question. The overage is recorded in your own sealed usage record and raised as a named licence event, not dropped silently. The trial keeps running.
If someone leaves
Administrators manage who has access from the Console, and removing a person ends their sign-in. There is no licence file to lose: the trial lives in your organisation.
When the term ends
Enforcement and ingest keep running. Your obligations plane keeps running. After the grace window, forward motion stops — new authoring, the reporting surfaces, feed freshness and support. Nothing is deleted and nothing bricks.
The full ladder →
Access to this view
R. Okafor — administrator. Two colleagues, each with the role an administrator gave them. Every action on this page is recorded against a person.
Running out of trial before you have finished is the honest moment to talk about a purchase or a paid pilot. There is no second automatic trial, and this page says so rather than offering one.
What stops this being abused
Including abuse by the person who legitimately received it, which is the case most schemes ignore. None of these depend on the recipient's goodwill.
One automatic trial per organisation
A repeat request, from the same address or the same company email domain, is held for our team rather than started.
The document names its holder
Signed, so it cannot be edited into somebody else's name, and use outside the named entity is visible and contractual.
A link that works once
The emailed link works once, for 24 hours, and carries no licence and no password.
A repeat gets the same answer
The page answers a first request and a repeat identically, so it cannot be used to learn whether a person or a company already uses EventLake.
The ceiling bounds the value
A shared licence does not multiply capacity — everyone using it draws on one daily volume, and it runs out faster.
Delivery is authenticated, the package is not
Friction sits on the thing that carries authority. The software, which carries none, stays open.
Deliberately not done
No machine fingerprinting — re-imaging and autoscaling break it, and support pays for that daily. No heartbeat or phone-home enforcement — on-premise exists for estates that cannot depend on our control plane, and a platform that stops defending when a network path fails is worse than the abuse it prevents. No hardware dongle, no per-seat activation, and no licence material anywhere on the public site.