Clarify the section on TLS for "Securing the reporting endpoints" #54741
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Closes #49969.
Since this section is focused on establishing trust for the Kibana server's certificate, I changed the documentation to describe the two most likely scenarios:
The old documentation recommended specifying the Kibana server's end-entity certificate as a trusted cert for Elasticsearch. I changed it to recommend specifying the CA certificate instead, which is what the rest of the Kibana documentation refers to regarding TLS connections and trust. This follows PKI best practices, as CA certificates usually have a much longer lifespan than end-entity certificates.