Introduction
It is possible to manually generate Vault license utilisation reports. Such reporting allows you to export and review license utilisation.
Prerequisites (if applicable)
Vault Enterprise 1.16 and above
Challenge
The responsibility for generating the Vault usage reports may be delegated in some organisations, hence the requirement for a minimal ACL policy to be available in order to provide the minimum required access for generating such a report.
Solution
Herewith the minimum ACL policy requirements for generating a utilisation report:
path "sys/utilization" { capabilities = ["update"] }
Outcome
Authenticating to Vault with a token that has the above policy attached to it will permit the operator to generate the utilisation report.
Additional Resources
- Vault Documentation: vault operator utilization command