REST authentication

Authentication configs are specified at the datasource level and can be selected from queries within the datasource. Adding authentication to a datasource allows queries to run well-known authentication strategies and can reduce the amount of configuration needed when multiple queries share the same authentication.

Datasource Configuration

A REST datasource can contain multiple authentication configs of well known types.

• Multiple configs of the same type can exist
• Configs must have a unique name

The appropriate information is added to the request when authentication is selected.

• Basic Auth - Adds the Base64 encoded username and password to the Authorization header
• Bearer Token - Adds the token to the Authorization header as Bearer token

Query Configuration

From within a query use the Auth dropdown to select the desired authentication config to be added to the query.