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otelcol.auth.basic

otelcol.auth.basic exposes a handler that can be used by other otelcol components to authenticate requests using basic authentication.

This extension supports both server and client authentication.

NOTE: otelcol.auth.basic is a wrapper over the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector basicauth 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

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otelcol.auth.basic "LABEL" {
  username = "USERNAME"
  password = "PASSWORD"
}

Arguments

otelcol.auth.basic supports the following arguments:

Exported fields

The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components:

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:

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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")
}