Metrics Basic Authentication

• Environmental Variable: METRICS_BASIC_AUTH
• Config File Key: metrics_basic_auth
• Kubernetes: not supported
• Type: base64 encoded string of username:password
• Example: eDp5 (for username: x, and password: y)
• Optional

Require Basic HTTP Authentication to access the metrics endpoint.

To support this in Prometheus, consult the basic_auth option in the scrape_config documentation.