Please add the ability to scape remote endpoints without a VPN

[hookenz]

I'd like to place my prometheus monitoring server in a different physical location to the machines I'm monitoring.

The only way I can see to do this securely is with a VPN. Are there any alternatives like a proxy with a http auth or similar?

[beorn7]

This is pretty much one of our non-goals, which we plan to document more clearly, see prometheus/docs#149 .

Short answer: You need to set up some way independent from Prometheus to allow the scrapes. There are just too many possible setups to support this within Prometheus.

Sorry for that...

[juliusv]

@hookenz While we won't be adding a proxy itself, what might be helpful in this scenario are existing support for basic auth (http://prometheus.io/docs/operating/configuration/#scrape-configurations-scrape_config), pending support for proxy support for scrapes (#943), or pending support for bearer tokens (#921).

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