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V2: Elastic agent monitoring data stream names should not be per process #1814

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The changes in #1702 changed the naming convention of the data streams used for sending agent process logs to Fleet to match how the processed are modelled in V2.

This has resulted in monitoring logs for spawned processes failing to be indexed in Elasticsearch when monitoring is enabled in Fleet. The root cause is that Fleet hard codes the list of expected monitoring data streams and uses them when adding index permissions into the agent policy. The result is that the agent has no permission to write to data streams using the new naming convention.

Example errors:

action [indices:admin/auto_create] is unauthorized for API key id [...] of user [elastic/fleet-server] on indices [metrics-elastic_agent.log_default-default], this action is granted by the index privileges [auto_configure,create_index,manage,all]

action [indices:admin/auto_create] is unauthorized for API key id [...] of user [elastic/fleet-server] on indices [metrics-elastic_agent.system/metrics_default-default], this action is granted by the index privileges [auto_configure,create_index,manage,all]

The existing monitoring data streams are defined in Fleet at https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/c5f20721e1879f1ebe161b0fa3b207f10ed2b6f7/x-pack/plugins/fleet/common/constants/agent_policy.ts#L15-L28

Monitoring permissions are generated here using this list: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/19413b7daae983b95dbb9f5c7b39cb8f3578ebfa/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/services/agent_policies/monitoring_permissions.ts#L21-L52

We need to either modify Fleet to generate index permissions for the new data stream names or we need to update the agent to use the index names expected in v1 (effectively they match the binary name).

Note that logs for the agent itself can successfully be sent to Fleet.

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