Possible to use Grafana to get Data from Elasticsearch using API?

Grafana
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May I know if it is possible to use Grafana to get data from Elasticsearch using API keys? I understand the current method is to ‘Add as data source’ by specifying a direct connection (port) from Elasticsearch’s indexes, but is it possible to use API keys to perform the same?

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Does elasticsearch have api keys?

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yes elasticsearch do habe API keys which can be exposed to be consumed by other apps. however how do i get Grafana to consume those elasticsearch API keys?

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If you use datasource provisioning for creating your datasource you can define custom http headers, for example:

apiVersion: 1

datasources:
  - name: Elastic
    type: elasticsearch
    access: proxy
    database: "[metrics-]YYYY.MM.DD"
    url: http://localhost:9200
    jsonData:
      interval: Daily
      timeField: "@timestamp"
      httpHeaderName1: "Authorization"
      httpHeaderName2: "X-Custom"
    secureJsonData:
      httpHeaderValue1: "Bearer uDAfrDnvi08QfuP22BWQNxso5LH3Q1iWYFvcRb_yQ70"
      httpHeaderValue2: "custom value"

For further information please refer to pull request.