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vmauth
vmauth
is a simple auth proxy and router for VictoriaMetrics.
It reads username and password from Basic Auth headers,
matches them against configs pointed by -auth.config
command-line flag and proxies incoming HTTP requests to the configured per-user url_prefix
on successful match.
Quick start
Just download vmutils-*
archive from releases page, unpack it
and pass the following flag to vmauth
binary in order to start authorizing and routing requests:
/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.
The port can be modified via -httpListenAddr
command-line flag.
The auth config can be reloaded by passing SIGHUP
signal to vmauth
.
Docker images for vmauth
are available here.
Pass -help
to vmauth
in order to see all the supported command-line flags with their descriptions.
Feel free contacting us if you need customized auth proxy for VictoriaMetrics with the support of LDAP, SSO, RBAC, SAML, accounting, limits, etc.
Auth config
Auth config is represented in the following simple yml
format:
# Arbitrary number of usernames may be put here.
# Usernames must be unique.
users:
# The user for querying local single-node VictoriaMetrics.
# All the requests to http://vmauth:8427 with the given Basic Auth (username:password)
# will be routed to http://localhost:8428 .
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is routed to http://localhost:8428/api/v1/query
- username: "local-single-node"
password: "***"
url_prefix: "http://localhost:8428"
# The user for querying account 123 in VictoriaMetrics cluster
# See https://victoriametrics.github.io/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#url-format
# All the requests to http://vmauth:8427 with the given Basic Auth (username:password)
# will be routed to http://vmselect:8481/select/123/prometheus .
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is routed to http://vmselect:8481/select/123/prometheus/api/v1/select
- username: "cluster-select-account-123"
password: "***"
url_prefix: "http://vmselect:8481/select/123/prometheus"
# The user for inserting Prometheus data into VictoriaMetrics cluster under account 42
# See https://victoriametrics.github.io/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#url-format
# All the requests to http://vmauth:8427 with the given Basic Auth (username:password)
# will be routed to http://vminsert:8480/insert/42/prometheus .
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/write is routed to http://vminsert:8480/insert/42/prometheus/api/v1/write
- username: "cluster-insert-account-42"
password: "***"
url_prefix: "http://vminsert:8480/insert/42/prometheus"
# A single user for querying and inserting data:
# - Requests to http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query or http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query_range
# are routed to http://vmselect:8481/select/42/prometheus.
# For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is routed to http://vmselect:8480/select/42/prometheus/api/v1/query
# - Requests to http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/write are routed to http://vminsert:8480/insert/42/prometheus/api/v1/write
- username: "foobar"
url_map:
- src_paths: ["/api/v1/query", "/api/v1/query_range"]
url_prefix: "http://vmselect:8481/select/42/prometheus"
- src_paths: ["/api/v1/write"]
url_prefix: "http://vminsert:8480/insert/42/prometheus"
The config may contain %{ENV_VAR}
placeholders, which are substituted by the corresponding ENV_VAR
environment variable values.
This may be useful for passing secrets to the config.
Security
Do not transfer Basic Auth headers in plaintext over untrusted networks. Enable https. This can be done by passing the following -tls*
command-line flags to vmauth
:
-tls
Whether to enable TLS (aka HTTPS) for incoming requests. -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile must be set if -tls is set
-tlsCertFile string
Path to file with TLS certificate. Used only if -tls is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs, since RSA certs are slow
-tlsKeyFile string
Path to file with TLS key. Used only if -tls is set
Alternatively, https termination proxy may be put in front of vmauth
.
Monitoring
vmauth
exports various metrics in Prometheus exposition format at http://vmauth-host:8427/metrics
page. It is recommended setting up regular scraping of this page
either via vmagent or via Prometheus, so the exported metrics could be analyzed later.
How to build from sources
It is recommended using binary releases - vmauth
is located in vmutils-*
archives there.
Development build
- Install Go. The minimum supported version is Go 1.13.
- Run
make vmauth
from the root folder of the repository. It buildsvmauth
binary and puts it into thebin
folder.
Production build
- Install docker.
- Run
make vmauth-prod
from the root folder of the repository. It buildsvmauth-prod
binary and puts it into thebin
folder.
Building docker images
Run make package-vmauth
. It builds victoriametrics/vmauth:<PKG_TAG>
docker image locally.
<PKG_TAG>
is auto-generated image tag, which depends on source code in the repository.
The <PKG_TAG>
may be manually set via PKG_TAG=foobar make package-vmauth
.
The base docker image is alpine but it is possible to use any other base image
by setting it via <ROOT_IMAGE>
environment variable. For example, the following command builds the image on top of scratch image:
ROOT_IMAGE=scratch make package-vmauth
Profiling
vmauth
provides handlers for collecting the following Go profiles:
- Memory profile. It can be collected with the following command:
curl -s http://<vmauth-host>:8427/debug/pprof/heap > mem.pprof
- CPU profile. It can be collected with the following command:
curl -s http://<vmauth-host>:8427/debug/pprof/profile > cpu.pprof
The command for collecting CPU profile waits for 30 seconds before returning.
The collected profiles may be analyzed with go tool pprof.
Advanced usage
Pass -help
command-line arg to vmauth
in order to see all the configuration options:
./vmauth -help
vmauth authenticates and authorizes incoming requests and proxies them to VictoriaMetrics.
See the docs at https://victoriametrics.github.io/vmauth.html .
-auth.config string
Path to auth config. See https://victoriametrics.github.io/vmauth.html for details on the format of this auth config
-enableTCP6
Whether to enable IPv6 for listening and dialing. By default only IPv4 TCP is used
-envflag.enable
Whether to enable reading flags from environment variables additionally to command line. Command line flag values have priority over values from environment vars. Flags are read only from command line if this flag isn't set
-envflag.prefix string
Prefix for environment variables if -envflag.enable is set
-http.connTimeout duration
Incoming http connections are closed after the configured timeout. This may help spreading incoming load among a cluster of services behind load balancer. Note that the real timeout may be bigger by up to 10% as a protection from Thundering herd problem (default 2m0s)
-http.disableResponseCompression
Disable compression of HTTP responses for saving CPU resources. By default compression is enabled to save network bandwidth
-http.idleConnTimeout duration
Timeout for incoming idle http connections (default 1m0s)
-http.maxGracefulShutdownDuration duration
The maximum duration for graceful shutdown of HTTP server. Highly loaded server may require increased value for graceful shutdown (default 7s)
-http.pathPrefix string
An optional prefix to add to all the paths handled by http server. For example, if '-http.pathPrefix=/foo/bar' is set, then all the http requests will be handled on '/foo/bar/*' paths. This may be useful for proxied requests. See https://www.robustperception.io/using-external-urls-and-proxies-with-prometheus
-http.shutdownDelay duration
Optional delay before http server shutdown. During this dealy the servier returns non-OK responses from /health page, so load balancers can route new requests to other servers
-httpAuth.password string
Password for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if -httpAuth.username is empty
-httpAuth.username string
Username for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if empty. See also -httpAuth.password
-httpListenAddr string
TCP address to listen for http connections (default ":8427")
-loggerErrorsPerSecondLimit int
Per-second limit on the number of ERROR messages. If more than the given number of errors are emitted per second, then the remaining errors are suppressed. Zero value disables the rate limit (default 10)
-loggerFormat string
Format for logs. Possible values: default, json (default "default")
-loggerLevel string
Minimum level of errors to log. Possible values: INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC (default "INFO")
-loggerOutput string
Output for the logs. Supported values: stderr, stdout (default "stderr")
-memory.allowedBytes value
Allowed size of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. This option overrides -memory.allowedPercent if set to non-zero value. Too low value may increase cache miss rate, which usually results in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high value may evict too much data from OS page cache, which will result in higher disk IO usage
Supports the following optional suffixes for values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
-memory.allowedPercent float
Allowed percent of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. See also -memory.allowedBytes. Too low value may increase cache miss rate, which usually results in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high value may evict too much data from OS page cache, which will result in higher disk IO usage (default 60)
-metricsAuthKey string
Auth key for /metrics. It overrides httpAuth settings
-pprofAuthKey string
Auth key for /debug/pprof. It overrides httpAuth settings
-tls
Whether to enable TLS (aka HTTPS) for incoming requests. -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile must be set if -tls is set
-tlsCertFile string
Path to file with TLS certificate. Used only if -tls is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs, since RSA certs are slow
-tlsKeyFile string
Path to file with TLS key. Used only if -tls is set
-version
Show VictoriaMetrics version