to expose metrics without authentication, you don't need to use `mc` to generate prometheus config. You can skip reading further and move to 3.2 section.

The Prometheus endpoint in MinIO requires authentication by default. Prometheus supports a bearer token approach to authenticate prometheus scrape requests, override the default Prometheus config with the one generated using mc. To generate a Prometheus config for an alias, use [mc](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc.html#quickstart)...

# Special characters for example : ',",<,>,{,}
MINIO_ACCESSKEY_SECRETKEY_TMP="/tmp/accessKey_and_secretKey_svcacct_tmp"

# connectToMinio
# Use a check-sleep-check loop to wait for MinIO service to be available
connectToMinio() {
  SCHEME=$1
  ATTEMPTS=0 ; LIMIT=29 ; # Allow 30 attempts
  set -e ; # fail if we can't read the keys.

  an older version you must use an `S3 API client` such as [`mc`](https://github.com/minio/mc).

- All features currently used by your buckets will work as is without any changes
  - SSE (Server Side Encryption)
  - Replication (Server Side Replication)

## Prerequisites

- It is assumed you have users created and configured with relevant access policies, to start with

To test this setup, practice put calls to the server using `mc` and use `mc ls` on
the data directory to view the size of the object.

## Explore Further

- [Use `mc` with MinIO Server](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc.html)
- [Use `aws-cli` with MinIO Server](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/integrations/aws-cli-with-minio.html)

## Overview