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@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ users:
# All the requests to http://vmauth:8427 with the given Basic Auth (username:password)
# are proxied to http://localhost:8428 with extra_label=team=dev query arg.
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is routed to http://localhost:8428/api/v1/query?extra_label=team=dev
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is proxied to http://localhost:8428/api/v1/query?extra_label=team=dev
- username: "local-single-node2"
password: "***"
url_prefix: "http://localhost:8428?extra_label=team=dev"
# All the requests to http://vmauth:8427 with the given Basic Auth (username:password)
# are proxied to https://localhost:8428
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is routed to https://localhost/api/v1/query
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is proxied to https://localhost/api/v1/query
# TLS verification is ignored for https://localhost.
- username: "local-single-node-with-tls"
password: "***"
@ -111,9 +111,9 @@ users:
- "http://default1:8888/unsupported_url_handler"
- "http://default2:8888/unsupported_url_handler"
# Requests without Authorization header are routed according to `unauthorized_user` section.
# Requests are routed in round-robin fashion between `url_prefix` backends.
# The deny_partial_response query arg is added to all the routed requests.
# Requests without Authorization header are proxied according to `unauthorized_user` section.
# Requests are proxied in round-robin fashion between `url_prefix` backends.
# The deny_partial_response query arg is added to all the proxied requests.
# The requests are re-tried if url_prefix backends send 500 or 503 response status codes.
unauthorized_user:
url_prefix:

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@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ func processRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, ui *UserInfo) {
// Don't change path and add request_path query param for default route.
if isDefault {
query := targetURL.Query()
query.Set("request_path", u.Path)
query.Set("request_path", u.String())
targetURL.RawQuery = query.Encode()
} else { // Update path for regular routes.
targetURL = mergeURLs(targetURL, u, dropSrcPathPrefixParts)

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# vmauth
`vmauth` is a simple auth proxy, router and [load balancer](#load-balancing) for [VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics).
It reads auth credentials from `Authorization` http header ([Basic Auth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication), `Bearer token` and [InfluxDB authorization](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1897) is supported),
It reads auth credentials from `Authorization` http header ([Basic Auth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication),
`Bearer token` and [InfluxDB authorization](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1897) is supported),
matches them against configs pointed by [-auth.config](#auth-config) command-line flag and proxies incoming HTTP requests to the configured per-user `url_prefix` on successful match.
The `-auth.config` can point to either local file or to http url.
## Quick start
Just download `vmutils-*` archive from [releases page](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/latest), unpack it
and pass the following flag to `vmauth` binary in order to start authorizing and routing requests:
and pass the following flag to `vmauth` binary in order to start authorizing and proxying requests:
```console
/path/to/vmauth -auth.config=/path/to/auth/config.yml
```
After that `vmauth` starts accepting HTTP requests on port `8427` and routing them according to the provided [-auth.config](#auth-config).
The `-auth.config` command-line flag must point to valid [config](#auth-config). See [use cases](#use-cases) with typical `-auth.config` examples.
`vmauth` accepts HTTP requests on port `8427` and proxies them according to the provided [-auth.config](#auth-config).
The port can be modified via `-httpListenAddr` command-line flag.
The auth config can be reloaded via the following ways:
@ -43,10 +46,203 @@ Pass `-help` to `vmauth` in order to see all the supported command-line flags wi
Feel free [contacting us](mailto:info@victoriametrics.com) if you need customized auth proxy for VictoriaMetrics with the support of LDAP, SSO, RBAC, SAML,
accounting and rate limiting such as [vmgateway](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway.html).
## Use cases
* [Simple HTTP proxy](#simple-http-proxy)
* [Generic HTTP proxy for different backends](#generic-http-proxy-for-different-backends)
* [Generic HTTP load balancer](#generic-http-load-balancer)
* [Load balancer for vmagent](#load-balancer-for-vmagent)
* [Load balancer for VictoriaMetrics cluster](#load-balancer-for-victoriametrics-cluster)
* [TLS termination proxy](#tls-termination-proxy)
* [Basic Auth proxy](#basic-auth-proxy)
* [Bearer Token auth proxy](#bearer-token-auth-proxy)
* [Per-tenant authorization](#per-tenant-authorization)
* [Enforcing query args](#enforcing-query-args)
### Simple HTTP proxy
The following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) instructs `vmauth` to proxy all the incoming requests to the given backend.
For example, requests to `http://vmauth:8427/foo/bar` are proxied to `http://backend/foo/bar`:
```yml
unauthorized_user:
url_prefix: "http://backend/"
```
### Generic HTTP proxy for different backends
`vmauth` can proxy requests to different backends depending on the requested path.
For example, the following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) instructs `vmauth` to make the following:
- Requests starting with `/app1/` are proxied to `http://app1-backend/`. For example, the request to `http://vmauth:8427/app1/foo/bar?baz=qwe`
is proxied to `http://app1-backend/foo/bar?baz=qwe`.
- Requests starting with `/app2/` are proxied to `http://app2-backend/`. For example, the request to `http://vmauth:8427/app2/index.html`
is proxied to `http://app2-backend/index.html`.
- Other requests are proxied to `http://some-backend/404-page.html`, while the requested path is passed via `request_path` query arg.
For example, the request to `http://vmauth:8427/foo/bar?baz=qwe` is proxied to `http://some-backend/404-page.html?request_path=%2Ffoo%2Fbar%3Fbaz%3Dqwe`.
```yml
unauthorized_user:
url_map:
- src_paths:
- "/app1/.*"
drop_src_path_prefix_parts: 1
url_prefix: "http://app1-backend/"
- src_paths:
- "/app2/.*"
drop_src_path_prefix_parts: 1
url_prefix: "http://app2-backend/"
default_url: http://some-backend/404-page.html
```
### Generic HTTP load balancer
`vmauth` can balance load among multiple HTTP backends in least-loaded round-robin mode.
For example, the following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) instructs `vmauth` to spread load load among multiple application instances:
```yml
unauthorized_user:
url_prefix:
- "http://app-instance-1/"
- "http://app-instance-2/"
- "http://app-instance-3/"
```
### Load balancer for vmagent
If [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html) is used for processing [data push requests](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#how-to-push-data-to-vmagent),
then it is possible to scale the performance of data processing at `vmagent` by spreading load among multiple identically configured `vmagent` instances.
This can be done with the following [config](#auth-config) for `vmagent`:
```yml
unauthorized_user:
url_map:
- src_paths:
- "/prometheus/api/v1/write"
- "/influx/write"
- "/api/v1/import"
- "/api/v1/import/.+"
url_prefix:
- "http://vmagent-1:8429/"
- "http://vmagent-2:8429/"
- "http://vmagent-3:8429/"
```
### Load balancer for VictoriaMetrics cluster
[VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html) accepts incoming data via `vminsert` nodes
and processes incoming requests via `vmselect` nodes according to [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#architecture-overview).
`vmauth` can be used for balancing both `insert` and `select` requests among `vminsert` and `vmselect` nodes, when the following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) is used:
```yml
unauthorized_user:
url_map:
- src_paths:
- "/insert/.+"
url_prefix:
- "http://vminsert-1:8480/"
- "http://vminsert-2:8480/"
- "http://vminsert-3:8480/"
- src_paths:
- "/select/.+"
url_prefix:
- "http://vmselect-1:8481/"
- "http://vmselect-2:8481/"
```
### TLS termination proxy
`vmauth` can terminate HTTPS requests to backend services when it runs with the following command-line flags:
```
/path/to/vmauth -tls -tlsKeyFile=/path/to/tls_key_file -tlsCertFile=/path/to/tls_cert_file -httpListenAddr=0.0.0.0:443
```
* `-httpListenAddr` sets the address to listen for incoming HTTPS requests
* `-tls` enables accepting TLS connections at `-httpListenAddr`
* `-tlsKeyFile` sets the path to TLS certificate key file
* `-tlsCertFile` sets the path to TLS certificate file
### Basic Auth proxy
`vmauth` can authorize access to backends depending on the provided [Basic Auth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication) request headers.
For example, the following [config](#auth-config) proxies requests to [single-node VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/)
if they contain Basic Auth header with the given `username` and `password`:
```yml
users:
- username: foo
password: bar
url_prefix: "http://victoria-metrics:8428/"
```
See also [security docs](#security).
### Bearer Token auth proxy
`vmauth` can authorize access to backends depending on the provided `Bearer Token` request headers.
For example, the following [config](#auth-config) proxies requests to [single-node VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/)
if they contain the given `bearer_token`:
```yml
users:
- bearer_token: ABCDEF
url_prefix: "http://victoria-metrics:8428/"
```
See also [security docs](#security).
### Per-tenant authorization
The following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) instructs proxying `insert` and `select` requests from the [Basic Auth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication)
user `tenant1` to the [tenant](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multitenancy) `1`,
while requests from the user `tenant2` are sent to tenant `2`:
```yml
users:
- username: tenant1
password: "***"
url_map:
- src_paths:
- "/api/v1/write"
url_prefix: "http://vminsert-backend:8480/insert/1/prometheus/"
- src_paths:
- "/api/v1/query"
- "/api/v1/query_range"
- "/api/v1/series"
- "/api/v1/labels"
- "/api/v1/label/.+/values"
url_prefix: "http://vmselect-backend:8481/select/1/prometheus/"
- username: tenant2
password: "***"
url_map:
- src_paths:
- "/api/v1/write"
url_prefix: "http://vminsert-backend:8480/insert/2/prometheus/"
- src_paths:
- "/api/v1/query"
- "/api/v1/query_range"
- "/api/v1/series"
- "/api/v1/labels"
- "/api/v1/label/.+/values"
url_prefix: "http://vmselect-backend:8481/select/2/prometheus/"
```
### Enforcing query args
`vmauth` can be configured for adding some mandatory query args before proxying requests to backends.
For example, the following [config](#auth-config) adds [`extra_label`](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#prometheus-querying-api-enhancements)
to all the requests, which are proxied to [single-node VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/):
```yml
unauthorized_user:
url_prefix: "http://victoria-metrics:8428/?extra_label=foo=bar"
```
## Dropping request path prefix
By default `vmauth` doesn't drop the path prefix from the original request when proxying the request to the matching backend.
Sometimes it is needed to drop path prefix before routing the request to the backend. This can be done by specifying the number of `/`-delimited
Sometimes it is needed to drop path prefix before proxying the request to the backend. This can be done by specifying the number of `/`-delimited
prefix parts to drop from the request path via `drop_src_path_prefix_parts` option at `url_map` level or at `user` level.
For example, if you need to serve requests to [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html) at `/vmalert/` path prefix,
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# All the requests to http://vmauth:8427 with the given Basic Auth (username:password)
# are proxied to http://localhost:8428 with extra_label=team=dev query arg.
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is routed to http://localhost:8428/api/v1/query?extra_label=team=dev
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is proxied to http://localhost:8428/api/v1/query?extra_label=team=dev
- username: "local-single-node2"
password: "***"
url_prefix: "http://localhost:8428?extra_label=team=dev"
# All the requests to http://vmauth:8427 with the given Basic Auth (username:password)
# are proxied to https://localhost:8428.
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is routed to https://localhost/api/v1/query
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is proxied to https://localhost/api/v1/query
# TLS verification is skipped for https://localhost.
- username: "local-single-node-with-tls"
password: "***"
@ -323,9 +519,9 @@ users:
- "http://default1:8888/unsupported_url_handler"
- "http://default2:8888/unsupported_url_handler"
# Requests without Authorization header are routed according to `unauthorized_user` section.
# Requests are routed in round-robin fashion between `url_prefix` backends.
# The deny_partial_response query arg is added to all the routed requests.
# Requests without Authorization header are proxied according to `unauthorized_user` section.
# Requests are proxied in round-robin fashion between `url_prefix` backends.
# The deny_partial_response query arg is added to all the proxied requests.
# The requests are re-tried if url_prefix backends send 500 or 503 response status codes.
# Note that the unauthorized_user section takes precedence when processing a route without credentials,
# even if such a route also exists in the users section (see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5236).