Question on credentials on the static prometheus exporter

[vsingla1]

I am trying to ingest metrics into splunk from a static prometheus exporter. My prometheus exporter is having credentials (username:passsword) to access the endpoint. Where/how do I supply the username:password in this modular add-on? Can you guide me here?

[vsingla1]

Thanks for your reply. https://user:password@host/metrics --> this worked just fine.

[luke_monahan · Accepted solution]

We haven't yet written any functionality for properly doing HTTP basic auth. If you can please raise a feature request on Github (https://github.com/lukemonahan/splunk_modinput_prometheus).

You could try specifying it in your url, e.g.: https://user:password@host/metrics

Or similar to this.I haven't tested this use case, however, so it may not work.

I will typically make the "host" the polled server in this case, however it really depends on what suits you best.

insecureSkipVerify setting should be correct in this case, if the SSL certificate is not properly signed and trusted.

[vsingla1]

Another question I have:
in inputs.conf, what should be the value of "host". Is the host my prometheus endpoint (to which I am polling) OR is the host my splunk server/heavy forwarder name?

[vsingla1]

Here is my apps/modinput_prometheus/local/inputs.conf

[prometheus://gralog]
URI = https://graylog-server/api/plugins/org.graylog.plugins.metrics.prometheus/metrics
index = prometheus
sourcetype = prometheus:metric
interval = 30
disabled = 0
insecureSkipVerify = 1
host = graylog-server

the prometheus endpoint is https, so I have configured insecureSkipVerify=1. Please let me know if this is not the right config.