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Sitecore Boost User functionality

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The murder  Recently, we were contacted by a customer who had been faced with an additional license cost by Sitecore due to excessive use of the Boost User functionality. For those of you who have never encountered this behavior, the documentation for this functionality can be found here: https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/90/platform-administration-and-architecture/kick-off-or-add-a-user.html#increase-the-number-of-allowed-users However, the customer asked us (as their partner agency) to check or challenge this boost behavior. They wanted to know who and how often (in a more granular metric than a day) this boost had been used. The investigation At first I though this was going to be something quite simple. As Sitecore is apparently able to detect the boost actions as they were performed I assumed that they should be able to also track the IP, Username, date and any other related information. But as it goes... never make assumptions :) Sitecore told us that they can only se...