`vmauth` is an HTTP proxy, which can [authorize](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth/#authorization), [route](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth/#routing)
and [load balance](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth/#load-balancing) requests across [VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics) components
The auth config can be reloaded via the following ways:
- By passing `SIGHUP` signal to `vmauth`.
- By querying `/-/reload` http endpoint. This endpoint can be protected with `-reloadAuthKey` command-line flag. See [security docs](#security) for more details.
- By specifying `-configCheckInterval` command-line flag to the interval between config re-reads. For example, `-configCheckInterval=5s` will re-read the config
See how `vmauth` used in [docker-compose env](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/deployment/docker/README.md#victoriametrics-cluster).
Feel free [contacting us](mailto:info@victoriametrics.com) if you need customized auth proxy for VictoriaMetrics with the support of LDAP, SSO, RBAC, SAML,
`vmauth` can proxy requests to different backends depending on the requested path, path, [query args](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string) and any HTTP request header.
- Requests starting with `/app1/` are proxied to `http://app1-backend/`, while the `/app1/` path prefix is dropped according to [`drop_src_path_prefix_parts`](#dropping-request-path-prefix).
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/`, while the `/app2/` path prefix is dropped according to [`drop_src_path_prefix_parts`](#dropping-request-path-prefix).
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`.
If [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent/) is used for processing [data push requests](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent/#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.
[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:
`vmauth` automatically switches from temporarily unavailable backend to other hot standby backends listed in `url_prefix`
if it runs with `-loadBalancingPolicy=first_available` command-line flag. The load balancing policy can be overridden at `user` and `url_map` sections
of [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) via `load_balancing_policy` option. For example, the following config instructs `vmauth` to proxy requests to `http://victoria-metrics-main:8428/` backend.
If this backend becomes unavailable, then `vmauth` starts proxying requests to `http://victoria-metrics-standby1:8428/`.
If this backend becomes also unavailable, then requests are proxied to the last specified backend - `http://victoria-metrics-standby2:8428/`:
`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`:
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`:
to different backends depending on the following [subject fields](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate#Common_fields) in the TLS certificate provided by client:
*`organizational_unit` aka `OU`
*`organization` aka `O`
*`common_name` aka `CN`
For example, the following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) routes requests from clients with `organizational_unit: finance` TLS certificates
to `http://victoriametrics-finance:8428` backend:
```yaml
users:
- mtls:
organizational_unit: finance
url_prefix: "http://victoriametrics-finance:8428"
```
[mTLS protection](#mtls-protection) must be enabled for mTLS-based routing.
- [Auth tokens via Arbitrary HTTP request headers](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth/#reading-auth-tokens-from-other-http-headers)
See also [security docs](#security), [routing docs](#routing) and [load balancing docs](#load-balancing).
## Routing
`vmauth` can proxy requests to different backends depending on the following parts of HTTP request:
- [Request path](#routing-by-path)
- [Request host](#routing-by-host)
- [Request query arg](#routing-by-query-arg)
- [HTTP request header](#routing-by-header)
- [Multiple parts](#routing-by-multiple-parts)
See also [authorization](#authorization) and [load balancing](#load-balancing).
### Routing by path
`src_paths` option can be specified inside `url_map` in order to route requests by path.
The following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) routes requests to paths starting with `/app1/` to `http://app1-backend`,
while requests with paths starting with `/app2` are routed to `http://app2-backend`, and the rest of requests
are routed to `http://some-backend/404-page.html`:
```yaml
unauthorized_user:
url_map:
- src_paths:
- "/app1/.*"
url_prefix: "http://app1-backend/"
- src_paths:
- "/app2/.*"
url_prefix: "http://app2-backend/"
default_url: http://some-backend/404-page.html
```
`src_paths` accepts a list of [regular expressions](https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax). The incoming request is routed to the given `url_prefix`
if **the whole** requested path matches at least one `src_paths` entry.
See also [how to drop request path prefix](#dropping-request-path-prefix).
### Routing by host
`src_hosts` option can be specified inside `url_map` in order to route requests by host.
The following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) routes requests to `app1.my-host.com` host to `http://app1-backend`, while routing requests to `app2.my-host.com` host to `http://app2-backend`,
and the rest of requests are routed to `http://some-backend/404-page.html`:
```yaml
unauthorized_user:
url_map:
- src_hosts:
- "app1\\.my-host\\.com"
url_prefix: "http://app1-backend/"
- src_hosts:
- "app2\\.my-host\\.com"
url_prefix: "http://app2-backend/"
default_url: http://some-backend/404-page.html
```
`src_hosts` accepts a list of [regular expressions](https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax). The incoming request is routed to the given `url_prefix`
if **the whole** request host matches at least one `src_hosts` entry.
### Routing by query arg
`src_query_args` option can be specified inside `url_map` in order to route requests by the given [query arg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string).
For example, the following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) routes requests to `http://app1-backend/` if `db=foo` query arg is present in the request,
while routing requests with `db` query arg starting with `bar` to `http://app2-backend`, and the rest of requests are routed to `http://some-backend/404-page.html`:
```yaml
unauthorized_user:
url_map:
- src_query_args: ["db=foo"]
url_prefix: "http://app1-backend/"
- src_query_args: ["db=~bar.*"]
url_prefix: "http://app2-backend/"
default_url: http://some-backend/404-page.html
```
`src_query_args` accepts a list of strings in the format `arg=value` or `arg=~regex`. The `arg=value` format means exact matching of the whole `arg` query arg value to the given `value`.
The `arg=~regex` format means regex matching of the whole `arg` query arg value to the given `regex`.
If at least a single query arg in the request matches at least one `src_query_args` entry, then the request is routed to the given `url_prefix`.
### Routing by header
`src_headers` option can be specified inside `url_map` in order to route requests by the given HTTP request header.
For example, the following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) routes requests to `http://app1-backend` if `TenantID` request header equals to `42`, while routing requests to `http://app2-backend`
if `TenantID` request header equals to `123:456`, and the rest of requests are routed to `http://some-backend/404-page.html`:
```yaml
unauthorized_user:
url_map:
- src_headers: ["TenantID: 42"]
url_prefix: "http://app1-backend/"
- src_headers: ["TenantID: 123:456"]
url_prefix: "http://app2-backend/"
default_url: http://some-backend/404-page.html
```
If `src_headers` contains multiple entries, then it is enough to match only a single entry in order to route the request to the given `url_prefix`.
### Routing by multiple parts
Any subset of [`src_paths`](#routing-by-path), [`src_hosts`](#routing-by-host), [`src_query_args`](#routing-by-query-arg) and [`src_headers`](#routing-by-header)
options can be specified simultaneously in a single `url_map` entry. In this case the request is routed to the given `url_prefix` if all the request matches
all the provided configs **simultaneously**.
For example, the following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) routes requests to `http://app1-backend` if all the conditions mentioned below are simultaneously met:
`vmauth` automatically detects temporarily unavailable backends and spreads incoming queries among the remaining available backends.
This allows restarting the backends and peforming mantenance tasks on the backends without the need to remove them from the `url_prefix` list.
By default `vmauth` returns backend responses with all the http status codes to the client. It is possible to configure automatic retry of requests
at other backends if the backend responds with status code specified in the `-retryStatusCodes` command-line flag.
It is possible to customize the list of http response status codes to retry via `retry_status_codes` list at `user` and `url_map` level of [`-auth.config`](#auth-config).
For example, the following config re-tries requests on other backends if the current backend returns response with `500` or `502` HTTP status code:
Load balancing feature can be used in the following cases:
- Balancing the load among multiple `vmselect` and/or `vminsert` nodes in [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html).
- Sending select queries to the closest availability zone (AZ), while falling back to other AZs with identical data if the closest AZ is unavaialable.
For example, the following [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) sends select queries to `https://vmselect-az1/` and uses the `https://vmselect-az2/` as a fallback
when `https://vmselect-az1/` is temporarily unavailable or cannot return full responses.
See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#cluster-availability) for details about `deny_partial_response` query arg,
which is added to requests before they are proxied to backends.
Load balancig can be configured independently per each `user` entry and per each `url_map` entry. See [auth config docs](#auth-config) for more details.
By default `vmauth` spreads load among the listed backends at `url_prefix` as described in [load balancing docs](#load-balancing).
Sometimes multiple backend instances can be hidden behind a single hostname. For example, `vmselect-service` hostname
may point to a cluster of `vmselect` instances in [VictoriaMetrics cluster setup](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/cluster-victoriametrics/#architecture-overview).
So the following config may fail spreading load among available `vmselect` instances, since `vmauth` will send all the requests to the same url, which may end up
- To set `discover_backend_ips: true` option, so `vmauth` automatically discovers IPs behind the given hostname and then spreads load among the discovered IPs:
If the `url_prefix` contains hostname with `srv+` prefix, then the hostname without `srv+` prefix is automatically resolved via [DNS SRV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record)
to the list of hostnames with TCP ports, and `vmauth` balances load among the discovered TCP addresses:
This functionality is useful for balancing load among backend instances, which run on different TCP ports, since DNS SRV records contain TCP ports.
The `discover_backend_ips` option can be specified at `user` and `url_map` level in the [`-auth.config`](#auth-config). It can also be enabled globally
If `url_prefix` contains url with the hostname starting with `srv+` prefix, then `vmauth` uses [DNS SRV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record) lookup
for the hostname without the `srv+` prefix and selects random TCP address (e.g. hostname plus TCP port) form the resolved results.
For example, if `some-addr` [DNS SRV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record) record contains `some-host:12345` TCP address,
then `url_prefix: http://srv+some-addr/some/path` is automatically resolved into `url_prefix: http://some-host:12345/some/path`.
The DNS SRV resolution is performed every time new connection to the `url_prefix` backend is established.
See also [discovering backend addressess](#discovering-backend-ips).
-`vmauth_unauthorized_user_concurrent_requests_capacity` - the limit on the number of concurrent requests for unauthorized users (if `unauthorized_user` section is used).
-`vmauth_unauthorized_user_concurrent_requests_current` - the current number of concurrent requests for unauthorized users (if `unauthorized_user` section is used).
-`vmauth_unauthorized_user_concurrent_requests_limit_reached_total` - the number of requests rejected with `429 Too Many Requests` error
because of the concurrency limit has been reached for unauthorized users (if `unauthorized_user` section is used).
-`-backend.tlsCertFile` and `-backend.tlsKeyFile` allows specifying client TLS certificate, which will be passed in requests to HTTPS backends.
This global setting can be overridden at per-user level inside [`-auth.config`](#auth-config)
via `tls_cert_file` and `tls_key_file` options. For example:
```yaml
- username: "foo"
url_prefix: "https://localhost"
tls_cert_file: "/path/to/tls/cert"
tls_key_file: "/path/to/tls/key"
```
-`-backend.tlsServerName` allows specifying optional TLS ServerName, which will be passed in requests to HTTPS backends.
This global setting can be overridden at per-user level inside [`-auth.config`](#auth-config)
via `tls_server_name` option. For example:
```yaml
- username: "foo"
url_prefix: "https://localhost"
tls_server_name: "foo.bar.com"
```
The `-backend.tlsCAFile`, `-backend.tlsCertFile`, `-backend.tlsKeyFile`, `tls_ca_file`, `tls_cert_file` and `tls_key_file` may point either to local file or to `http` / `https` url.
The file is automatically re-read when it is updated.
[Enterprise version](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise/) of `vmauth` can be configured to allow / deny incoming requests via global and per-user IP filters.
For example, the following config allows requests to `vmauth` from `10.0.0.0/24` network and from `1.2.3.4` IP address, while denying requests from `10.0.0.42` IP address:
[Enterprise version of vmauth](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise/) supports the ability to accept [mTLS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_authentication)
requests at this port, by specifying `-tls` and `-mtls` command-line flags. For example, the following command runs `vmauth`, which accepts only mTLS requests at port `8427`:
```
./vmauth -tls -mtls -auth.config=...
```
By default system-wide [TLS Root CA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_certificate) is used for verifying client certificates if `-mtls` command-line flag is specified.
It is possible to specify custom TLS Root CA via `-mtlsCAFile` command-line flag.
See also [automatic issuing of TLS certificates](#automatic-issuing-of-tls-certificates) and [mTLS-based request routing](#mtls-based-request-routing).
It is expected that all the backend services protected by `vmauth` are located in an isolated private network, so they can be accessed by external users only via `vmauth`.
Do not transfer Basic Auth headers in plaintext over untrusted networks. Enable https at `-httpListenAddr`. This can be done by passing the following `-tls*` command-line flags to `vmauth`:
`vmauth` also supports the ability to restrict access by IP - see [these docs](#ip-filters). See also [concurrency limiting docs](#concurrency-limiting).
`vmauth` [Enterprise](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise/) supports automatic issuing of TLS certificates via [Let's Encrypt service](https://letsencrypt.org/).
The following command-line flags must be set in order to enable automatic issuing of TLS certificates:
-`-httpListenAddr` must be set for listening TCP port `443`. For example, `-httpListenAddr=:443`. This port must be accessible by the [Let's Encrypt service](https://letsencrypt.org/).
-`-tls` must be set in order to accept HTTPS requests at `-httpListenAddr`.
-`-tlsAutocertHosts` must be set to comma-separated list of hosts, which can be reached via `-httpListenAddr`. TLS certificates are automatically issued for these hosts.
-`-tlsAutocertEmail` must be set to contact email for the issued TLS certificates.
-`-tlsAutocertCacheDir` may be set to the directory path for persisting the issued TLS certificates between VictoriaMetrics restarts. If this flag isn't set,
then TLS certificates are re-issued on every restart.
This functionality can be evaluated for free according to [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise/).
`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
*`vmauth_user_requests_total` [counter](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#counter) - the number of requests served for the given `username`
*`vmauth_user_request_backend_errors_total` [counter](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#counter) - the number of request errors for the given `username`
*`vmauth_user_request_duration_seconds` [summary](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#summary) - the duration of requests for the given `username`
*`vmauth_user_concurrent_requests_limit_reached_total` [counter](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#counter) - the number of failed requests
*`vmauth_user_concurrent_requests_capacity` [gauge](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#gauge) - the maximum number of [concurrent requests](#concurrency-limiting)
*`vmauth_user_concurrent_requests_current` [gauge](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#gauge) - the current number of [concurrent requests](#concurrency-limiting)
By default, per-user metrics contain only `username` label. This label is set to `username` field value at the corresponding user section in the [`-auth.config`](#auth-config) file.
It is possible to override the `username` label value by specifying `name` field additionally to `username` field.
For example, the following config will result in `vmauth_user_requests_total{username="foobar"}` instead of `vmauth_user_requests_total{username="secret_user"}`:
*`vmauth_unauthorized_user_requests_total` [counter](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#counter) - the number of unauthorized requests served
*`vmauth_unauthorized_user_request_backend_errors_total` [counter](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#counter) - the number of unauthorized request errors
*`vmauth_unauthorized_user_request_duration_seconds` [summary](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#summary) - the duration of unauthorized requests
*`vmauth_unauthorized_user_concurrent_requests_limit_reached_total` [counter](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#counter) - the number of failed unauthorized requests
*`vmauth_user_concurrent_requests_current` [gauge](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#gauge) - the current number of [concurrent unauthorized requests](#concurrency-limiting)
It is recommended using [binary releases](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/latest) - `vmauth` is located in `vmutils-*` archives there.
by setting it via `<ROOT_IMAGE>` environment variable. For example, the following command builds the image on top of [scratch](https://hub.docker.com/_/scratch) image:
Path to auth config. It can point either to local file or to http url. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth/ for details on the format of this auth config
Optional path to TLS root CA file, which is used for TLS verification when connecting to backends over HTTPS. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth/#backend-tls-setup
Whether to discover backend IPs via periodic DNS queries to hostnames specified in url_prefix. This may be useful when url_prefix points to a hostname with dynamically scaled instances behind it. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth/#discovering-backend-ips
Whether to enable reading flags from environment variables in addition to the command line. Command line flag values have priority over values from environment vars. Flags are read only from the command line if this flag isn't set. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#environment-variables for more details
Deprecated, please use -license or -licenseFile flags instead. By specifying this flag, you confirm that you have an enterprise license and accept the ESA https://victoriametrics.com/legal/esa/ . This flag is available only in Enterprise binaries. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise/
Sets a delay period for load balancing to skip a malfunctioning backend (default 3s)
-filestream.disableFadvise
Whether to disable fadvise() syscall when reading large data files. The fadvise() syscall prevents from eviction of recently accessed data from OS page cache during background merges and backups. In some rare cases it is better to disable the syscall if it uses too much CPU
Flag value can be read from the given file when using -flagsAuthKey=file:///abs/path/to/file or -flagsAuthKey=file://./relative/path/to/file . Flag value can be read from the given http/https url when using -flagsAuthKey=http://host/path or -flagsAuthKey=https://host/path
Whether to use pread() instead of mmap() for reading data files. By default, mmap() is used for 64-bit arches and pread() is used for 32-bit arches, since they cannot read data files bigger than 2^32 bytes in memory. mmap() is usually faster for reading small data chunks than pread()
Incoming connections to -httpListenAddr are closed after the configured timeout. This may help evenly spreading load among a cluster of services behind TCP-level load balancer. Zero value disables closing of incoming connections (default 2m0s)
The maximum duration for a graceful shutdown of the HTTP server. A highly loaded server may require increased value for a graceful shutdown (default 7s)
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
Optional delay before http server shutdown. During this delay, the server returns non-OK responses from /health page, so load balancers can route new requests to other servers
Flag value can be read from the given file when using -httpAuth.password=file:///abs/path/to/file or -httpAuth.password=file://./relative/path/to/file . Flag value can be read from the given http/https url when using -httpAuth.password=http://host/path or -httpAuth.password=https://host/path
TCP address to listen for incoming http requests. See also -tls and -httpListenAddr.useProxyProtocol
Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
Value can contain comma inside single-quoted or double-quoted string, {}, [] and () braces.
-httpListenAddr.useProxyProtocol array
Whether to use proxy protocol for connections accepted at the corresponding -httpListenAddr . See https://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/doc/proxy-protocol.txt . With enabled proxy protocol http server cannot serve regular /metrics endpoint. Use -pushmetrics.url for metrics pushing
Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
The expiry duration for caches for interned strings. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning . See also -internStringMaxLen and -internStringDisableCache (default 6m0s)
-internStringDisableCache
Whether to disable caches for interned strings. This may reduce memory usage at the cost of higher CPU usage. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning . See also -internStringCacheExpireDuration and -internStringMaxLen
The maximum length for strings to intern. A lower limit may save memory at the cost of higher CPU usage. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning . See also -internStringDisableCache and -internStringCacheExpireDuration (default 500)
Lisense key for VictoriaMetrics Enterprise. See https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/ . Trial Enterprise license can be obtained from https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/trial/ . This flag is available only in Enterprise binaries. The license key can be also passed via file specified by -licenseFile command-line flag
Whether to enable offline verification for VictoriaMetrics Enterprise license key, which has been passed either via -license or via -licenseFile command-line flag. The issued license key must support offline verification feature. Contact info@victoriametrics.com if you need offline license verification. This flag is avilable only in Enterprise binaries
Path to file with license key for VictoriaMetrics Enterprise. See https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/ . Trial Enterprise license can be obtained from https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/trial/ . This flag is available only in Enterprise binaries. The license key can be also passed inline via -license command-line flag
The default load balancing policy to use for backend urls specified inside url_prefix section. Supported policies: least_loaded, first_available. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth/#load-balancing (default "least_loaded")
Whether to log requests with invalid auth tokens. Such requests are always counted at vmauth_http_request_errors_total{reason="invalid_auth_token"} metric, which is exposed at /metrics page
Per-second limit on the number of ERROR messages. If more than the given number of errors are emitted per second, the remaining errors are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
The maximum length of a single logged argument. Longer arguments are replaced with 'arg_start..arg_end', where 'arg_start' and 'arg_end' is prefix and suffix of the arg with the length not exceeding -loggerMaxArgLen / 2 (default 1000)
Timezone to use for timestamps in logs. Timezone must be a valid IANA Time Zone. For example: America/New_York, Europe/Berlin, Etc/GMT+3 or Local (default "UTC")
Per-second limit on the number of WARN messages. If more than the given number of warns are emitted per second, then the remaining warns are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
The maximum number of concurrent requests vmauth can process per each configured user. Other requests are rejected with '429 Too Many Requests' http status code. See also -maxConcurrentRequests command-line option and max_concurrent_requests option in per-user config (default 300)
The maximum number of concurrent requests vmauth can process. Other requests are rejected with '429 Too Many Requests' http status code. See also -maxConcurrentPerUserRequests and -maxIdleConnsPerBackend command-line options (default 1000)
Allowed size of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. This option overrides -memory.allowedPercent if set to a non-zero value. Too low a value may increase the cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from the OS page cache resulting in higher disk IO usage
Allowed percent of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. See also -memory.allowedBytes. Too low a value may increase cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from the OS page cache which will result in higher disk IO usage (default 60)
Whether to expose TYPE and HELP metadata at the /metrics page, which is exposed at -httpListenAddr . The metadata may be needed when the /metrics page is consumed by systems, which require this information. For example, Managed Prometheus in Google Cloud - https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/managed-prometheus/troubleshooting#missing-metric-type
Flag value can be read from the given file when using -metricsAuthKey=file:///abs/path/to/file or -metricsAuthKey=file://./relative/path/to/file . Flag value can be read from the given http/https url when using -metricsAuthKey=http://host/path or -metricsAuthKey=https://host/path
Whether to require valid client certificate for https requests to the corresponding -httpListenAddr . This flag works only if -tls flag is set. See also -mtlsCAFile . This flag is available only in Enterprise binaries. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise/
Optional path to TLS Root CA for verifying client certificates at the corresponding -httpListenAddr when -mtls is enabled. By default the host system TLS Root CA is used for client certificate verification. This flag is available only in Enterprise binaries. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise/
Flag value can be read from the given file when using -pprofAuthKey=file:///abs/path/to/file or -pprofAuthKey=file://./relative/path/to/file . Flag value can be read from the given http/https url when using -pprofAuthKey=http://host/path or -pprofAuthKey=https://host/path
Optional labels to add to metrics pushed to every -pushmetrics.url . For example, -pushmetrics.extraLabel='instance="foo"' adds instance="foo" label to all the metrics pushed to every -pushmetrics.url
Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
Optional HTTP request header to send to every -pushmetrics.url . For example, -pushmetrics.header='Authorization: Basic foobar' adds 'Authorization: Basic foobar' header to every request to every -pushmetrics.url
Optional URL to push metrics exposed at /metrics page. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#push-metrics . By default, metrics exposed at /metrics page aren't pushed to any remote storage
Flag value can be read from the given file when using -reloadAuthKey=file:///abs/path/to/file or -reloadAuthKey=file://./relative/path/to/file . Flag value can be read from the given http/https url when using -reloadAuthKey=http://host/path or -reloadAuthKey=https://host/path
Comma-separated list of default HTTP response status codes when vmauth re-tries the request on other backends. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth/#load-balancing for details (default 0)
Whether to enable TLS for incoming HTTP requests at the given -httpListenAddr (aka https). -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile must be set if -tls is set. See also -mtls
Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
Directory to store TLS certificates issued via Let's Encrypt. Certificates are lost on restarts if this flag isn't set. This flag is available only in Enterprise binaries. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise/
-tlsAutocertEmail string
Contact email for the issued Let's Encrypt TLS certificates. See also -tlsAutocertHosts and -tlsAutocertCacheDir .This flag is available only in Enterprise binaries. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise/
-tlsAutocertHosts array
Optional hostnames for automatic issuing of Let's Encrypt TLS certificates. These hostnames must be reachable at -httpListenAddr . The -httpListenAddr must listen tcp port 443 . The -tlsAutocertHosts overrides -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile . See also -tlsAutocertEmail and -tlsAutocertCacheDir . This flag is available only in Enterprise binaries. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise/
Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
Value can contain comma inside single-quoted or double-quoted string, {}, [] and () braces.
Path to file with TLS certificate for the corresponding -httpListenAddr if -tls is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs as RSA certs are slower. The provided certificate file is automatically re-read every second, so it can be dynamically updated. See also -tlsAutocertHosts
Optional list of TLS cipher suites for incoming requests over HTTPS if -tls is set. See the list of supported cipher suites at https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/tls#pkg-constants
Path to file with TLS key for the corresponding -httpListenAddr if -tls is set. The provided key file is automatically re-read every second, so it can be dynamically updated. See also -tlsAutocertHosts
