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Expand Up @@ -185,11 +185,15 @@ so do not limit a user's ability to run arbitrary queries in proxy mode.

## Secrets

Non-secret information or fields may be available via the HTTP API and/or logs.
Non-secret information or fields may be available via the HTTP API, browser
local storage, and/or logs.

In Prometheus, metadata retrieved from service discovery is not considered
secret. Throughout the Prometheus system, metrics are not considered secret.

Forms in the web interfaces are not considered secrets. That includes free-text
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This is a bit odd, it could be read as though non-forms are secrets.

fields, like the silences in Alertmanager.

Fields containing secrets in configuration files (marked explicitly as such in
the documentation) will not be exposed in logs or via the HTTP API. Secrets
should not be placed in other configuration fields, as it is common for
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