Event log license check

[mikecote]

The event log should do a license check for gold+ and handle the dynamics of license changes.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-alerting-services (Team:Alerting Services)

[pmuellr]

For the server, we'll need a way to dynamically enable/disable the event log, based on the license change.

I guess if the user starts with basic, we shouldn't create the ES resources, but then that means if they move to trial / gold, we would need to create the ES resources outside of the typical plugin setup. Seems like this can be made to work in a fairly straight-forward manner. The eventLoggers will likely have to check the license status (hopefully a property in the plugin, not an ES call) to determine whether to write entries or not.

[mikecote]

but then that means if they move to trial / gold, we would need to create the ES resources outside of the typical plugin setup

Yeah, I'm curious how others do this 🤔at least the initialization code that we need to run is contained.

[mikecote]

Marking as blocked until we have requirements for license checks (discussion pending).

[gmmorris]

Wouldn't it make more sense for the event log to set itself up no matter what and simply do license checks when the APIs are called?
That way solutions using the Event Log can create loggers without having to special case and the loggers themselves simply decide what action to execute and what action to "drop" (or even reject) when the license isn't good enough for the specific ability?

[mikecote]

It looks like we may not need to implement license checks if the event log is going to be in Basic. I'd hold off working on this issue and we can close this next week once confirmed.

[mikecote]

Closing issue as we will not need license checks for now.