Caution
Grafana Alloy is the new name for our distribution of the OTel collector. Grafana Agent has been deprecated and is in Long-Term Support (LTS) through October 31, 2025. Grafana Agent will reach an End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025. Read more about why we recommend migrating to Grafana Alloy.
Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.
otelcol.auth.basic
otelcol.auth.basic
exposes a handler
that can be used by other otelcol
components to authenticate requests using basic authentication.
NOTE:
otelcol.auth.basic
is a wrapper over the upstream OpenTelemetry Collectorbasicauth
extension. Bug reports or feature requests will be redirected to the upstream repository, if necessary.
Multiple otelcol.auth.basic
components can be specified by giving them
different labels.
Usage
otelcol.auth.basic "LABEL" {
username = "USERNAME"
password = "PASSWORD"
}
Arguments
otelcol.auth.basic
supports the following arguments:
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
username | string | Username to use for basic authentication requests. | yes | |
password | secret | Password to use for basic authentication requests. | yes |
Exported fields
The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components:
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
handler | capsule(otelcol.Handler) | A value that other components can use to authenticate requests. |
Component health
otelcol.auth.basic
is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid
configuration.
Debug information
otelcol.auth.basic
does not expose any component-specific debug information.
Example
This example configures otelcol.exporter.otlp to use basic authentication:
otelcol.exporter.otlp "example" {
client {
endpoint = "my-otlp-grpc-server:4317"
auth = otelcol.auth.basic.creds.handler
}
}
otelcol.auth.basic "creds" {
username = "demo"
password = env("API_KEY")
}