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Prometheus HTTP endpoint can have custom authentication #6013
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Prometheus HTTP endpoint today is unauthenticated. Some attributes may contain sensitive data, hence having the ability to customize access to it would solve that.
Describe the solution you'd like
Ability to customize the HttpContext created for metrics handler, using a functional interface (Consumer<HttpContext>) given in the builder of ProtheusHttpServer. This will allow setting authentication using Filter or Autheticator.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Let the apps wrap them selfs with another proxy implementing the authentication. Aside from the complexity of adding another process doing the authentication, there are cases when the authentication is already implemented inside the app for all other HTTP Endpoints, thus it makes sense to do the authentication in the same app using same code and data. Apache Pulsar is an example. Users can provide an AuthenticationProvider plugin, and each request to Pulsar will use it for authentication. Forcing Pulsar users to spin up a proxy which implements the Pulsar code for authentication is awfully complicated.
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fstab commentedon Nov 27, 2023
Related: The upstream
HTTPServerfrom the Prometheus Java client can be configured with anAuthenticator, so if #6015 gets merged this could be implemented deferring to upstream API.asafm commentedon Nov 27, 2023
@fstab 6105 has several major drawbacks discussed with @jack-berg at #5940 which makes it too big of an obstacle to merge IMO.
Specifically in this issue, supporting an
Authenticatoris so easy in terms of added code, I wouldn't want to bring a mountain of code and dependency just to do it.echooymxq commentedon Sep 22, 2024
What's going on now? the
PrometheusHttpServerstill can't custom authentication.jack-berg commentedon Sep 23, 2024
PRs to extend
PrometheusHttpServerBuilderwith asetAuthenticator(com.sun.net.httpserver.Authenticator)method are welcome.asafm commentedon Sep 25, 2024
I've moved on to another company and don't have time to continue implementing this, sorry.
jack-berg commentedon Dec 19, 2025
Solved in #7225.