OAuth Authentication

[peterghaddad]

Currently Basic Authentication is supported. Does OAuth2 support exist? Not all Prometheus instances can enable Basic Auth, and using a OAuth2 is considered a better practice.

[codebien]

Hi @peterghaddad,
at the moment the output doesn't have an implementation for the OAuth2 protocol. Can you detail your use case, please?

[peterghaddad]

Hi @codebien, the use case is that Basic Auth isn't considered the best practice when authenticating to Prometheus. Prometheus accepts Bearer tokens i.e the Authentication header which would be extremely helpful. Also, there are additional steps for setting up Prometheus to accept Basic Auth depending on how it was deployed i.e not all Prometheus instances have Basic Auth enabled or are able to enable it.

[codebien]

Ok, then I close this issue because it seems a duplicate of #54. Please, add your 👍 there so we can consider the right priority during our planning.

Feel free to reopen and add more details if you think #54 wouldn't be enough.