On 30 Mar 10:08, Amit Das wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> So as you mentioned any passwords mentioned in prometheus config should not 
> be visible outside from UI or api. Correct?.  
> example http://demo.robustperception.io:9090/config  


Yes

> 
> I am using docker containers. 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 6:04:51 PM UTC+5:30 Julien Pivotto wrote:
> 
> > If the password is visible from the prometheus UI or API's that is a major 
> > security issue.
> >
> > If the password is present in the Prometheus configuration file, that is 
> > not a security issue because you can protect it with your operating system 
> > abilities.
> >
> > Can you please clarify? Thanks.
> >
> > Le sam. 27 mars 2021 à 13:05, Amit Das <[email protected]> a écrit :
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am looking for getting the metrics behind basic auth from url like
> >> 192.16.10.8/metrics (with nginx auth).
> >>
> >> I see i can do that by adding username and password in the prometheus.yml 
> >> job.
> >>
> >> Prometheus URL is accessible to everyone internaly and can see the 
> >> password from the config. 
> >> From security perspective this is not good. 
> >> Can you please suggest the best approach to get metrics with basic auth 
> >> without leaking credentials like from prometheus url.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
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