It’s not clear to me if the shipped action groups in the sgconfig file need to be explicitly uploaded. In any case, it would be much simpler from a user perspective to have those hardcoded in the searchguard plugin, so that when something changes in Elasticsearch permissions, search-guard would imp…

I guess this answers my question, excerpt from Upgrading from 6.x to 7.x | Security for Elasticsearch | Search Guard : Migrating to the new built-in roles Search Guard 6 shipped with a couple of demo users, roles and action groups. In Search Guard 7, some of them are now built-in and cannot be ch…

Official shipped action groups

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Official shipped action groups

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