Having previously discussed why the Prometheus project does not support SSL and user authentication out of the box and detailing how to add basic authentication with Nginx, we will now demonstrate how to do the same with Apache.
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It's a frequently asked question as to how to do various security related features with Prometheus. Let's take a deeper look at why we chose the approach we did.
Prometheus doesn't provide authentication support in order to focus energy on making an awesome monitoring tool. Instead users can take advantage of a more purpose designed tool such as Nginx to do so. This post will look at how you can do that.
