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) as follows `mc admin prometheus generate <alias> [METRIC-TYPE]`. The valid values for METRIC-TYPE are `cluster`, `node`, `bucket` and `resource` and if not mentioned, it defaults to `cluster`.

The command will generate the `scrape_configs`...

  ACCESS=$(cat /config/rootUser) ; SECRET=$(cat /config/rootPassword) ;
  set +e ; # The connections to minio are allowed to fail.
  echo "Connecting to MinIO server: $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT" ;
  MC_COMMAND="${MC} alias set myminio $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT $ACCESS $SECRET" ;
  $MC_COMMAND ;
  STATUS=$? ;
  until [ $STATUS = 0 ]
  do
    ATTEMPTS=`expr $ATTEMPTS + 1` ;
    echo \"Failed attempts: $ATTEMPTS\" ;

## Configuring Site Replication

- Configure an alias in `mc` for each of the sites. For example if you have three MinIO sites, you may run:

```sh
mc alias set minio1 https://minio1.example.com:9000 adminuser adminpassword
mc alias set minio2 https://minio2.example.com:9000 adminuser adminpassword
mc alias set minio3 https://minio3.example.com:9000 adminuser adminpassword
```

or

```sh

	ACCESS=$(cat /config/rootUser)
	SECRET=$(cat /config/rootPassword)
	set +e # The connections to minio are allowed to fail.
	echo "Connecting to MinIO server: $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT"
	MC_COMMAND="${MC} alias set myminio $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT $ACCESS $SECRET"
	$MC_COMMAND
	STATUS=$?
	until [ $STATUS = 0 ]; do
		ATTEMPTS=$(expr $ATTEMPTS + 1)
		echo \"Failed attempts: $ATTEMPTS\"

> NOTE: MinIO environmental variables still take precedence over the `config.yaml` file, however `config.yaml` is preferred over MinIO internal config KV settings via `mc admin config set alias/ <sub-system>`.

### TODO

In subsequent releases we are planning to extend this to provide things like

- Reload() of MinIO server arguments without fully restarting the process.

  ACCESS=$(cat /config/rootUser) ; SECRET=$(cat /config/rootPassword) ;
  set +e ; # The connections to minio are allowed to fail.
  echo "Connecting to MinIO server: $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT" ;
  MC_COMMAND="${MC} alias set myminio $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT $ACCESS $SECRET" ;
  $MC_COMMAND ;
  STATUS=$? ;
  until [ $STATUS = 0 ]
  do
    ATTEMPTS=`expr $ATTEMPTS + 1` ;
    echo \"Failed attempts: $ATTEMPTS\" ;

```sh
mc admin update <minio alias, e.g., myminio>
```

- For deployments without external internet access (e.g. airgapped environments), download the binary from <https://dl.min.io> and replace the existing MinIO binary let's say for example `/opt/bin/minio`, apply executable permissions `chmod +x /opt/bin/minio` and proceed to perform `mc admin service restart alias/`.

1. Start a distributed MinIO instance (4 nodes setup)
2. Start Prometheus server and AlertManager
3. Bring down couple of MinIO instances to bring down the Erasure Set tolerance to -1 and verify the same with `mc admin prometheus metrics ALIAS | grep minio_cluster_health_erasure_set_status`
4. Wait for 5 mins (as alert is configured to be firing after 5 mins), and verify that you see an entry in webhook for the alert as well as in Prometheus console as shown below

```json