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Suryabhan Singh Vaghela
Suryabhan Singh Vaghela

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Configure Prometheus with Basic Authentication in Microsoft Azure WebApp

Goal :

  • Configuration of Prometheus Basic Authentication in Microsoft Azure WebApp.

Pre-Requisite :

Steps

  1. Create a web.yml file (documentation)

  2. You can also use bcrypt generators on the web

Configuration of Prometheus Basic Authentication in Microsoft Azure WebApp
Configuration of Prometheus Basic Authentication in Microsoft Azure WebApp
Configuration of Prometheus Basic Authentication in Microsoft Azure WebApp

  • web.yml (Upload this file in **suryasprometheus** Storage Account Share)
basic_auth_users:
  suryauser: $2a$12$6g5f3MZriVtoOZ7GrCEwzuTBxnPQwHurpktXTXUu1neg/XZeHzipy
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Configuration of Prometheus Basic Authentication in Microsoft Azure WebApp

  • Set an Startup Commmand for Prometheus WebApp which includes web.yml
az webapp config set --name $WebAppName --resource-group $ResourceGroupName --startup-file `
"--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml --web.config.file=/etc/prometheus/web.yml --web.enable-lifecycle --storage.tsdb.retention.time=7d"
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Configuration of Prometheus Basic Authentication in Microsoft Azure WebApp

  • prometheus.yml (Upload this file in **suryasprometheus** Storage Account Share)
# my global config
global:
  scrape_interval: 30s # Set the scrape interval to every 15 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.
  evaluation_interval: 30s # Evaluate rules every 15 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.
  scrape_timeout: 30s #is set to the global default (10s).


# A scrape configuration containing exactly one endpoint to scrape:
# Here it's Prometheus itself.
scrape_configs:
  # The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from this config.
  - job_name: "Prometheus"
    static_configs:
      - targets: ["suryawaprometheus.azurewebsites.net"]
    basic_auth:
        username: suryauser
        password: suryapassword
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Configuration of Prometheus Basic Authentication in Microsoft Azure WebApp
Configuration of Prometheus Basic Authentication in Microsoft Azure WebApp

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