Authenticated URL Support

[fifofonix]

Would be great to get authenticated URL support other than by hard-coding credentials into the panel.

Not sure whether there is a way to create a generic grafana http datasource plugin using the proxy stuff here: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/plugins/add-authentication-for-data-source-plugins/

And then to have this plugin invoke the accompanying proxied API?

[Dalvany]

Hello @fifofonix thanks for reporting the need for this feature.
I've never thought about authentication. I'll try to see how to do that. To read :

• https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/plugins/add-authentication-for-data-source-plugins/
• https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/http_api/data_source/#data-source-proxy-calls (what endpoint to call to proxy)

Requires to switch to an "app plugin".

Things to dig :

• How influxdb, prometheus, ...etc datasource plugins works. Also bosun.
• Can I have "easily" access to the datasource list from panel configuration
• Select, in configuration options, between current "method" and proxy I'm must say that it will take time as I'm already working on #21 and it gives me hard time.

[Dalvany]

Less complex but not secure at all (but at least password won't be shown in grafana) :

• configuration : two text input, one for username, the other for password
• add basic auth header and get the image using ajax or add to the url https://aaa:bbb@...