"Secure" the Blackbox exporter using basic authentication

[Cres Portillo]

Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to "secure" a bit the BlackBox exporter site running on http:\\localhost:9115 using basic authentication, or whatever is available. I'm not able to find any info on doing this. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I have successfully done this for hosts using Windows Exporter.

I added the following to the web.yml on the Windows Exporter host.

basic_auth_users:
    admin: bcryptpassword 

and added the creds to the job in prometheus.yml on Prometheus server. 

- job_name: "server1"

    static_configs:
      - targets: ["server1:9182"]
    basic_auth:
      username: 'admin'
      password: ' secure'

It works for Windows Exporter. 

Can't figure out how to do the same for Blackbox Exporter. 

Any ideas? Thanks in advance. 

[Brian Candler]

Please read the documentation here: https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter?tab=readme-ov-file#tls-and-basic-authentication

> To use TLS and/or basic authentication, you need to pass a configuration file using the --web.config.file parameter. The format of the file is described in the exporter-toolkit repository.