HTTP API

Authentication

GreptimeDB supports the built-in Basic authentication scheme in HTTP API for SQL language and OpenTSDB protocol. To set up authentication, do the following:

  1. Encode your username and password using Base64 algorithm.
  2. Attach your encoded credentials to the HTTP request header using the format Authorization: Basic <base64-encoded-credentials>.

Here’s an example:

shell

  1. curl -X POST \
  2. -H 'Authorization: Basic Z3JlcHRpbWVfdXNlcjpncmVwdGltZV9wd2Q=' \
  3. -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  4. -d 'sql=show tables' \
  5. http://localhost:4000/v1/sql?db=public

json

  1. {
  2.   "code": 0,
  3.   "output": [
  4.     {
  5.       "records": {
  6.         "schema": {
  7.           "column_schemas": [
  8.             {
  9.               "name": "Tables",
  10.               "data_type": "String"
  11.             }
  12.           ]
  13.         },
  14.         "rows": [
  15.           ["numbers"],
  16.           ["scripts"]
  17.         ]
  18.       }
  19.     }
  20.   ],
  21.   "execution_time_ms": 1
  22. }
  • Z3JlcHRpbWVfdXNlcjpncmVwdGltZV9wd2Q= is greptime_user:greptime_pwd encoded using Base64. Remember to replace it with your own configured username and password and encode them using Base64.
  • The public in the URL is the name of your database, which is required with authorization.

NOTE

InfluxDB uses its own authentication format, see InfluxDB for details.

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