Exposing metrics endpoint without requiring authentication

[mmcgarr]

With this plugin installed it seems I need to configure a username and password for prometheus to scrape metrics from elasticsearch. We generally don't consider prometheus metrics to be sensitive.

Is there a way to remove the need for basic auth on the metrics endpoint?

[Sumit31]

similar issue
i am getting this error on prometheus:
server returned HTTP status 401 Unauthorized

is there anyway to remove it ?

[ebuildy]

Not sure, but can you try using super user elastic ?

Or maybe, by adding (see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-privileges.html) monitor role to anonymous user.

[agabriel777]

facing the same issue with 6.8.0. has anybody found a workaround to this? thank you