docs(motlp): add Authentication section with ingest API key examples#571
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Documents the new `ingest` application privilege for Managed Inputs (mOTLP), including examples for creating unrestricted and pipeline-scoped Elasticsearch API keys.
Use full https:// URL instead of relative path for the Elasticsearch create API key API reference link. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| You can create an API key from the {{kib}} UI or using the {{es}} [create API key API](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/operation/operation-security-create-api-key). |
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For some reason the typical docs link kept failing? URL works, so I left it like that for now.
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I think it's because this is the API docs.
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| #### Pipeline-scoped key |
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I suggest putting this and the previous section in dropdowns.
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Could this information go inside the ../_snippets/find-motlp-endpoint.md ?
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Summary
ingestapplication privilege that replaces the legacyapmprivilegeapmapplication keyselasticsearch-specificationrepo in this PRContext
Managed Inputs (mOTLP) is introducing a new
ingestapplication privilege to support pipeline-scoped authorization. See elastic/ingest-dev#6488. The reference doc currently has no section on authentication or how to create API keys programmatically — this fills that gap.relates to #6489