Enabling monitoring on public app

[dacercoolex]

Hi,

I’m running an app with no authentication (authentication: none). I want to use embedded monitoring, but I cannot access /grafana because it seems to inherit ShinyProxy’s authentication, so I'm getting the forbidden error. It would be handy that grafana to have its own login page or a workaround to enable monitoring without exposing Grafana publicly.

Current Setup:
ShinyProxy: Publicly accessible, no auth.

Question:
Is there a way to:

1. Configure Grafana to use its own authentication (e.g., Grafana’s built-in login) while embedded in ShinyProxy Operator?
2. Use reverse proxy rules to protect /grafana with basic auth or something similar?

Current configuration application.shinyproxy.yml (snippet)

proxy:
  authentication: none 
  admin-users: admin
  users:
    - name: admin
      password: admin-pass
      groups: admin

Thanks in advance.

[LEDfan]

Hi

It's currently not possible to enable monitoring for a public instance. However, it's possible to add an additional instance, which has authentication that is just used to access Grafana. The Grafana UI will show the metrics and logs for both instances.

We used the same approach in a blog post: https://www.openanalytics.eu/blog/2025/08/19/shinyproxy-cost-effective-public-app/#monitoring