MinIO supports two authentication modes for Prometheus either `jwt` or `public`, by default MinIO runs in `jwt` mode. To allow public access without authentication for prometheus metrics set environment as follows.

```
export MINIO_PROMETHEUS_AUTH_TYPE="public"
minio server ~/test
```

### 3. Configuring Prometheus

#### 3.1 Authenticated Prometheus config

When set, environment variables override the defined `compress` config settings in the server config.

```bash
export MINIO_COMPRESSION_ENABLE="on"
export MINIO_COMPRESSION_EXTENSIONS=".txt,.log,.csv,.json,.tar,.xml,.bin"
export MINIO_COMPRESSION_MIME_TYPES="text/*,application/json,application/xml"
```

> [!NOTE]