Uptime Kuma with local authentication and API turned off - Home Assistant uptime kuma integration does not work without API key

[Kerat5]

Integration name

Uptime Kuma Integration

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/uptime_kuma

Describe the enhancement

I have uptime Kuma installed on my local network and had it integrated with home assistant using the home assistant integration using an API key I generated from the uptime kuma settings interface.

Recently, I have been moving all my home services over to a centralized SSO (Authentik). The Authentik integration instructions directed me to disable local authentication in uptime kuma (settings - advanced disable authentication) and proxy connections to it through Authentik. I have built bypasses for API calls through the authentik provider configuration. I should not need an API key. I am not able to disable the API key requirement in the Uptime Kuma integration. Is this a setting that can be added?

Use cases

Users that are not forcing authentication in uptime kuma are unable to use the integration.

Anything else?

Authentik Uptime Kuma integration instructions: https://integrations.goauthentik.io/monitoring/uptime-kuma/#uptime-kuma-configuration

[github-actions[bot]]

🏷️ I've automatically added the integration: uptime_kuma label to help categorize this feature request.

[mik-laj]

The Authentik documentation explicitly instructs users to disable Uptime Kuma’s built-in authentication and rely entirely on SSO handled by the reverse proxy.
Once Uptime Kuma’s local auth is disabled, authentication still happens, but through Authentik instead of Uptime Kuma’s own login.

I'm afraid that the option to disable token passing won't solve your problem. If we wanted the Home Assistant Uptime Kuma integration to support this setup, the integration would need to implement authentication against Authentik itself.

[Kerat5]

what i did try was creating a service account and an api key in authentik and granting it access to the uptime kuma app. I tried handing the service account's api key to the uptimekuma integration but that didn't work.

[tr4nt0r]

The integration should work with authentication disabled, the API key is optional. Otherwise, Uptime Kuma actually uses BasicAuth, not Bearer authentication. So if authentication is handled by the proxy, the integration will pass as username an empty string and as password the API key. Maybe that helps.