If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have manage_autoscaling cluster privileges. For more information, see Security privileges.
As you are looking at the master documentation I do not think this feature has been released yet. Based on the initial note in the docs you linked to it does as far as I can see not look like a Basic license feature.
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