[Feature request] Add HTTP basic auth ?

[rdegez]

Hi,

First of all: I was looking for a small & simple, easy to deploy on various system (golang, yeay!), tls-enabled http proxy to secure all prometheus exporter for some time and it your exporter_exporter is doing exactly that! Thanks a lot :-) (and the consistency with other prometheus components is very welcome)

I was wondering if you would consider adding basic http-auth to remove the burden of using tls-client cert verification to secure the access to the metrics?

Cheers

[thomasf]

I am a bit against this since it more or less encourages unsafe deployments without using encryption at all which isnt a secure access by any standard. If you are using something else for SSL termination you could add the auth there?

If anything It should be Bearer authentication and not basic.

[rdegez]

Even better, thanks a lot!