From 120962b6154820b611f2e8ee123dd21fe2a9df5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Wohlwend <beni@elastic.co>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:03:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] provide better snippet for secret token generation

While the previous snippet wasn't necessarily bad, it used
uuid4 for something it isn't intended to. Python 3 provides
a cryptographically secure token generator, so let's tell
our users to use that instead.
---
 docs/configuration.asciidoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/configuration.asciidoc b/docs/configuration.asciidoc
index d33789207..1d28a0374 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/configuration.asciidoc
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ An example to generate a secure secret token is:
 
 [source,bash]
 ----
-python -c "import uuid; print(str(uuid.uuid4()))"
+python -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32))"
 ----
 
 WARNING: Secret tokens only provide any security if your APM Server uses TLS.