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Authentication

Grafana provides many ways to authenticate users. By default it will use local users & passwords stored in the Grafana database.

Settings

Via the server ini config file you can setup many different authentication methods. Auth settings are documented below.

[auth]

disable_login_form

Set to true to disable (hide) the login form, useful if you use OAuth, defaults to false.

disable_signout_menu

Set to true to disable the signout link in the side menu. useful if you use auth.proxy, defaults to false.

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[auth.basic]

enabled

When enabled is true (default) the http api will accept basic authentication.

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