Why does it need cluster:monitor/main permission

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ES 7.17 cloud is hosted in https://xxx.elastic-cloud.com:9243

Using Java High Level REST client, I was able to connect to server ES client 7.9.3. Now I update to ES client 7.17.4. But it gives me permission issue.

"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception","reason":"action [cluster:monitor/main] is unauthorized for user [xxxx] with roles

Why does it need this permission? Someone mentioned that client pings the cluster using the / endpoint and it's actually why the [cluster:monitor/main privilege] is required. And this was added after the 7.10.2 Opensearch fork.

Where can I find the reference?

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