From 7e12f832daaee82ccc43b2f167e3c47fa653f863 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ialidzhikov Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:51:08 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about auth_enabled Signed-off-by: ialidzhikov --- docs/operations.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/operations.md b/docs/operations.md index 4470cdcc13a9..357c99a49117 100644 --- a/docs/operations.md +++ b/docs/operations.md @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ You are expected to run an authenticating reverse proxy in front of your service Loki is a multitenant system; requests and data for tenant A are isolated from tenant B. Requests to the Loki API should include an HTTP header (`X-Scope-OrgID`) identifying the tenant for the request. Tenant IDs can be any alphanumeric string; limiting them to 20 bytes is reasonable. +To run in multitenant mode, loki should be started with `auth_enabled: true`. Loki can be run in "single-tenant" mode where the `X-Scope-OrgID` header is not required. In this situation, the tenant ID is defaulted to be `fake`.