API non root user? or other way to pull custom stats?

[SMnasMAN]

Im just checking that im reading this part of the API v2 (v2 released recently) docs correct:

so as of 11.3 (and 12.0 coming soon), only the root user is able to (mainly read) use the API? is this correct still?

https://api.ixsystems.com/freenas/api/docs/websocket/#auth

Im asking as im looking to pull some of my own data from FN into grafana (or other), and was hoping to use a read-only user/access to the API to accomplish this in my scripts.

ie I dont want to make *any* changes via these scripts, nor do i want to use the root login/pass in my scripts - so i just wanted to verify that this is still not an option.

Any other suggestions as to way to pull data/info from freenas? (i AM already using FN's built-in graphite output, and FN's syslogging)
(im mainly trying to gather PULL replication task status data, from some remote FN backup boxes).

(btw, it is VERY nice that FN/ixsys offers that graphite data output option, builtin thanks!)

thanks!

EDIT: unless others have some ideas, im thinking the best way maybe to have some simple bash or python scripts that run directly on the FN backup boxes themselves and push data directly into a remote graphite/Whisper DB. maybe?

 

[Jurgen Segaert]

In TrueNAS 12.0, you can create an API key. More information in the post below.

TrueNAS 12 BETA using API keys with the REST API 2.0

I'm working on a custom integration that leverages the REST API 2.0 on TrueNAS 12 BETA. Works great using basic authentication with the root account. However, I can see that there are API keys you can generate and I'm wondering how to use these keys instead. I can't find any documentation...

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