[8.x] Remove usage of Kibana plugins build in performance test pipeli…

…nes (#205896) (#205930)

# Backport

This will backport the following commits from `main` to `8.x`:
- [Remove usage of Kibana plugins build in performance test pipelines
(#205896)](#205896)

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Co-authored-by: Robert Oskamp <[email protected]>

.buildkite/scripts/steps/functional/scalability_dataset_extraction.sh

@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ buildkite-agent artifact upload "${OUTPUT_DIR}/scalability_traces.tar.gz"
 
 echo "--- Downloading Kibana artifacts used in tests"
 download_artifact kibana-default.tar.gz "${OUTPUT_DIR}/" --build "${KIBANA_BUILD_ID:-$BUILDKITE_BUILD_ID}"
-download_artifact kibana-default-plugins.tar.gz "${OUTPUT_DIR}/" --build "${KIBANA_BUILD_ID:-$BUILDKITE_BUILD_ID}"
 
 echo "--- Adding commit info"
 echo "${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}" > "${OUTPUT_DIR}/KIBANA_COMMIT_HASH"

.buildkite/scripts/steps/scalability/benchmarking.sh

@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ download_artifacts() {
   tar -xzf "${LATEST_RUN_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/kibana-default.tar.gz" -C "$KIBANA_BUILD_LOCATION" --strip=1
 
   cd "$KIBANA_DIR"
-  tar -xzf "${LATEST_RUN_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/kibana-default-plugins.tar.gz"
   tar -xzf "${LATEST_RUN_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/scalability_traces.tar.gz"
 }