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Management interface reference

By default, Quarkus exposes the management endpoints under /q on the main HTTP server. The same HTTP server provides the application endpoints and the management endpoints.

This document presents how you can use a separate HTTP server (bound to a different network interface and port) for the management endpoints. It avoids exposing these endpoints on the main server and, therefore, prevents undesired accesses.

1. Enabling the management interface

To enable the management interface, use the following build-time property:

quarkus.management.enabled=true

By default, management endpoints will be exposed on: http://0.0.0.0:9000/q. For example, if you have smallrye-health installed, the readiness probe will be exposed at http://0.0.0.0:9000/q/health/ready.

SmallRye Health Checks, SmallRye Metrics, Micrometer and Info endpoints will be declared as management endpoints when the management interface is enabled.

The management interface is disabled when no extensions relying on it (such as the SmallRye Health or SmallRye OpenAPI extensions) are installed.

2. Configure the host, port and scheme

By default, the management interface is exposed on the interface: 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces) and on the port 9000 (9001 in test mode). It does not use TLS (https) by default.

You can configure the host, ports, and TLS certificates using the following properties:

quarkus.management.host - the interface / host
quarkus.management.port - the port
quarkus.management.test-port - the port to use in test mode
quarkus.management.ssl - the TLS configuration, same as for the main HTTP server.

Here is a configuration example exposing the management interface on https://localhost:9002:

quarkus.management.enabled=true
quarkus.management.host=localhost
quarkus.management.port=9002
quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-store-file=server-keystore.jks
quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-store-password=secret

Key store, trust store and certificate files can be reloaded periodically. Configure the quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.reload-period property to specify the interval at which the certificates should be reloaded:

quarkus.http.management.certificate.files=/mount/certs/tls.crt
quarkus.http.management.certificate.key-files=/mount/certs/tls.key
quarkus.http.management.certificate.reload-period=1h

The files are reloaded from the same location as they were initially loaded from. If there is no content change, the reloading is a no-op. It the reloading fails, the server will continue to use the previous certificates.

Unlike the main HTTP server, the management interface does not handle http and https at the same time. If https is configured, plain HTTP requests will be rejected.

3. Configure the root path

Management endpoints are configured differently than standard HTTP endpoints. They use a unique root path, which is /q by default. This management root path can be configured using the quarkus.management.root-path property. For example, if you want to expose the management endpoints under /management use:

quarkus.management.enabled=true
quarkus.management.root-path=/management

The mounting rules of the management endpoints slightly differ from the ones used when using the main HTTP server:

Management endpoints configured using a relative path (not starting with /) will be served from the configured root path. For example, if the endpoint path is health and the root path is management, the resulting path is /management/health
Management endpoints configured using an absolute path (starting with /) will be served from the root. For example, if the endpoint path is /health, the resulting path is /health, regardless of the root path
The management interface does not use the HTTP root path from the main HTTP server.

The quarkus.http.root-path property is only applied to the main HTTP server and not to the management interface. In addition, the quarkus.http.non-application-root-path property is not used for endpoint exposed on the management interface.

4. Create a management endpoint in an extension

To expose an endpoint on the management interface from the code of an application, refer to the application section.

SmallRye Health Checks, SmallRye Metrics, and Micrometer endpoints will be declared as management endpoints when the management interface is enabled.

if you do not enable the management interface, these endpoints will be served using the main HTTP server (under /q by default).

Extensions can create a management endpoint by defining a non application route and calling management() method:

@BuildStep
void createManagementRoute(BuildProducer<RouteBuildItem> routes,
        NonApplicationRootPathBuildItem nonApplicationRootPathBuildItem,
        MyRecorder recorder) {

    routes.produce(nonApplicationRootPathBuildItem.routeBuilder()
        .management() // Must be called BEFORE the routeFunction method
        .routeFunction("my-path", recorder.route())
        .handler(recorder.getHandler())
        .blockingRoute()
        .build());
    //...
}

If the management interface is enabled, the endpoint will be exposed on: http://0.0.0.0:9000/q/my-path. Otherwise, it will be exposed on: http://localhost:8080/q/my-path.

Management endpoints can only be declared by extensions and not from the application code.

5. Exposing an endpoint on the management interface (as an application)

You can expose endpoints on the management interface by registering routes on the management router. To access the router use the following code:

public void registerManagementRoutes(@Observes ManagementInterface mi) {
       mi.router().get("/admin").handler(rc ->
            rc.response().end("admin it is")
       );
}

The io.quarkus.vertx.http.ManagementInterface event is fired when the management interface is initialized. So, if the management interface is not enabled, the method won’t be called.

The router() method returns a io.vertx.ext.web.Router object which can be used to register routes. The paths are relative to /. For example, the previous snippet registers a route on /admin. This route is accessible on http://0.0.0.0:9000/admin, if you use the default host and port.

More details about the Router API can be found on the Vert.x Web documentation.

6. Management Interface Configuration

Configuration property fixed at build time - All other configuration properties are overridable at runtime

Configuration property

Type

Default

quarkus.management.enabled

Enables / Disables the usage of a separate interface/port to expose the management endpoints. If sets to true, the management endpoints will be exposed to a different HTTP server. This avoids exposing the management endpoints on a publicly available server.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_ENABLED

boolean

false

quarkus.management.auth.basic

If basic auth should be enabled.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_BASIC

boolean

quarkus.management.auth.proactive

If this is true and credentials are present then a user will always be authenticated before the request progresses. If this is false then an attempt will only be made to authenticate the user if a permission check is performed or the current user is required for some other reason.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_PROACTIVE

boolean

true

quarkus.management.ssl.client-auth

Configures the engine to require/request client authentication. NONE, REQUEST, REQUIRED

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH

none, request, required

none

quarkus.management.root-path

A common root path for management endpoints. Various extension-provided management endpoints such as metrics and health are deployed under this path by default.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_ROOT_PATH

string

/q

quarkus.management.enable-compression

If responses should be compressed.

Note that this will attempt to compress all responses, to avoid compressing already compressed content (such as images) you need to set the following header:

Content-Encoding: identity

Which will tell vert.x not to compress the response.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_ENABLE_COMPRESSION

boolean

false

quarkus.management.enable-decompression

When enabled, vert.x will decompress the request’s body if it’s compressed.

Note that the compression format (e.g., gzip) must be specified in the Content-Encoding header in the request.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_ENABLE_DECOMPRESSION

boolean

false

quarkus.management.compression-level

The compression level used when compression support is enabled.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_COMPRESSION_LEVEL

int

quarkus.management.auth.roles-mapping."role-name"

Map the SecurityIdentity roles to deployment specific roles and add the matching roles to SecurityIdentity.

For example, if SecurityIdentity has a user role and the endpoint is secured with a 'UserRole' role, use this property to map the user role to the UserRole role, and have SecurityIdentity to have both user and UserRole roles.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_ROLES_MAPPING__ROLE_NAME_

Map<String,List<String>>

quarkus.management.port

The HTTP port

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PORT

int

9000

quarkus.management.test-port

The HTTP port

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_TEST_PORT

int

9001

quarkus.management.host

The HTTP host

Defaults to 0.0.0.0

Defaulting to 0.0.0.0 makes it easier to deploy Quarkus to container, however it is not suitable for dev/test mode as other people on the network can connect to your development machine.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_HOST

string

quarkus.management.host-enabled

Enable listening to host:port

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_HOST_ENABLED

boolean

true

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.credentials-provider

The CredentialsProvider. If this property is configured, then a matching 'CredentialsProvider' will be used to get the keystore, keystore key, and truststore passwords unless these passwords have already been configured.

Please note that using MicroProfile ConfigSource which is directly supported by Quarkus Configuration should be preferred unless using CredentialsProvider provides for some additional security and dynamism.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_CREDENTIALS_PROVIDER

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.credentials-provider-name

The credentials provider bean name.

This is a bean name (as in @Named) of a bean that implements CredentialsProvider. It is used to select the credentials provider bean when multiple exist. This is unnecessary when there is only one credentials provider available.

For Vault, the credentials provider bean name is vault-credentials-provider.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_CREDENTIALS_PROVIDER_NAME

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.files

The list of path to server certificates using the PEM format. Specifying multiple files requires SNI to be enabled.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_FILES

list of path

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-files

The list of path to server certificates private key files using the PEM format. Specifying multiple files requires SNI to be enabled.

The order of the key files must match the order of the certificates.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY_FILES

list of path

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-store-file

An optional keystore that holds the certificate information instead of specifying separate files.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY_STORE_FILE

path

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-store-file-type

An optional parameter to specify the type of the keystore file. If not given, the type is automatically detected based on the file name.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY_STORE_FILE_TYPE

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-store-provider

An optional parameter to specify a provider of the keystore file. If not given, the provider is automatically detected based on the keystore file type.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY_STORE_PROVIDER

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-store-password

A parameter to specify the password of the keystore file. If not given, and if it can not be retrieved from CredentialsProvider.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY_STORE_PASSWORD

string

password

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-store-password-key

A parameter to specify a CredentialsProvider property key, which can be used to get the password of the key store file from CredentialsProvider.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY_STORE_PASSWORD_KEY

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-store-alias

An optional parameter to select a specific key in the keystore. When SNI is disabled, and the keystore contains multiple keys and no alias is specified; the behavior is undefined.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY_STORE_ALIAS

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-store-alias-password

An optional parameter to define the password for the key, in case it is different from key-store-password If not given, it might be retrieved from CredentialsProvider.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY_STORE_ALIAS_PASSWORD

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.key-store-alias-password-key

A parameter to specify a CredentialsProvider property key, which can be used to get the password for the alias from CredentialsProvider.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY_STORE_ALIAS_PASSWORD_KEY

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.trust-store-file

An optional trust store that holds the certificate information of the trusted certificates.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_TRUST_STORE_FILE

path

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.trust-store-files

An optional list of trusted certificates using the PEM format. If you pass multiple files, you must use the PEM format.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_TRUST_STORE_FILES

list of path

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.trust-store-file-type

An optional parameter to specify the type of the trust store file. If not given, the type is automatically detected based on the file name.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_TRUST_STORE_FILE_TYPE

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.trust-store-provider

An optional parameter to specify a provider of the trust store file. If not given, the provider is automatically detected based on the trust store file type.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_TRUST_STORE_PROVIDER

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.trust-store-password

A parameter to specify the password of the trust store file. If not given, it might be retrieved from CredentialsProvider.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_TRUST_STORE_PASSWORD

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.trust-store-password-key

A parameter to specify a CredentialsProvider property key, which can be used to get the password of the trust store file from CredentialsProvider.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_TRUST_STORE_PASSWORD_KEY

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.trust-store-cert-alias

An optional parameter to trust a single certificate from the trust store rather than trusting all certificates in the store.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_TRUST_STORE_CERT_ALIAS

string

quarkus.management.ssl.certificate.reload-period

When set, the configured certificate will be reloaded after the given period. Note that the certificate will be reloaded only if the file has been modified.

Also, the update can also occur when the TLS certificate is configured using paths (and not in-memory).

The reload period must be equal or greater than 30 seconds. If not set, the certificate will not be reloaded.

It’s recommended to use the TLS registry to handle the certificate reloading.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CERTIFICATE_RELOAD_PERIOD

Duration

quarkus.management.ssl.cipher-suites

The cipher suites to use. If none is given, a reasonable default is selected.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_CIPHER_SUITES

list of string

quarkus.management.ssl.protocols

Sets the ordered list of enabled SSL/TLS protocols.

If not set, it defaults to "TLSv1.3, TLSv1.2". The following list of protocols are supported: TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2, TLSv1.3. To only enable TLSv1.3, set the value to to "TLSv1.3".

Note that setting an empty list, and enabling SSL/TLS is invalid. You must at least have one protocol.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_PROTOCOLS

list of string

TLSv1.3,TLSv1.2

quarkus.management.ssl.sni

Enables Server Name Indication (SNI), an TLS extension allowing the server to use multiple certificates. The client indicate the server name during the TLS handshake, allowing the server to select the right certificate.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_SSL_SNI

boolean

false

quarkus.management.tls-configuration-name

The name of the TLS configuration to use.

If not set and the default TLS configuration is configured (quarkus.tls.*) then that will be used. If a name is configured, it uses the configuration from quarkus.tls.<name>.* If a name is configured, but no TLS configuration is found with that name then an error will be thrown.

If no TLS configuration is set, and quarkus.tls.* is not configured, then, quarkus.management.ssl will be used.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_TLS_CONFIGURATION_NAME

string

quarkus.management.handle-100-continue-automatically

When set to true, the HTTP server automatically sends 100 CONTINUE response when the request expects it (with the Expect: 100-Continue header).

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_HANDLE_100_CONTINUE_AUTOMATICALLY

boolean

false

quarkus.management.limits.max-header-size

The maximum length of all headers.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_HEADER_SIZE

MemorySize

20K

quarkus.management.limits.max-body-size

The maximum size of a request body.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_BODY_SIZE

MemorySize

10240K

quarkus.management.limits.max-chunk-size

The max HTTP chunk size

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE

MemorySize

8192

quarkus.management.limits.max-initial-line-length

The maximum length of the initial line (e.g. "GET / HTTP/1.0").

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_INITIAL_LINE_LENGTH

int

4096

quarkus.management.limits.max-form-attribute-size

The maximum length of a form attribute.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_FORM_ATTRIBUTE_SIZE

MemorySize

2048

quarkus.management.limits.max-form-fields

Set the maximum number of fields of a form. Set to -1 to allow unlimited number of attributes.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_FORM_FIELDS

int

256

quarkus.management.limits.max-form-buffered-bytes

Set the maximum number of bytes a server can buffer when decoding a form. Set to -1 to allow unlimited length

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_FORM_BUFFERED_BYTES

MemorySize

1K

quarkus.management.limits.max-parameters

The maximum number of HTTP request parameters permitted for incoming requests.

If a client sends more than this number of parameters in a request, the connection is closed.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_PARAMETERS

int

1000

quarkus.management.limits.max-connections

The maximum number of connections that are allowed at any one time. If this is set it is recommended to set a short idle timeout.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_CONNECTIONS

int

quarkus.management.limits.header-table-size

Set the SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE HTTP/2 setting.

Allows the sender to inform the remote endpoint of the maximum size of the header compression table used to decode header blocks, in octets. The encoder can select any size equal to or less than this value by using signaling specific to the header compression format inside a header block. The initial value is 4,096 octets.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE

long

quarkus.management.limits.max-concurrent-streams

Set SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS HTTP/2 setting.

Indicates the maximum number of concurrent streams that the sender will allow. This limit is directional: it applies to the number of streams that the sender permits the receiver to create. Initially, there is no limit to this value. It is recommended that this value be no smaller than 100, to not unnecessarily limit parallelism.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS

long

quarkus.management.limits.max-frame-size

Set the SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE HTTP/2 setting. Indicates the size of the largest frame payload that the sender is willing to receive, in octets. The initial value is 2^14 (16,384) octets.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE

int

quarkus.management.limits.max-header-list-size

Set the SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE HTTP/2 setting. This advisory setting informs a peer of the maximum size of header list that the sender is prepared to accept, in octets. The value is based on the uncompressed size of header fields, including the length of the name and value in octets plus an overhead of 32 octets for each header field. The default value is 8192

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE

long

quarkus.management.limits.rst-flood-max-rst-frame-per-window

Set the max number of RST frame allowed per time window, this is used to prevent HTTP/2 RST frame flood DDOS attacks. The default value is 200, setting zero or a negative value, disables flood protection.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_RST_FLOOD_MAX_RST_FRAME_PER_WINDOW

int

quarkus.management.limits.rst-flood-window-duration

Set the duration of the time window when checking the max number of RST frames, this is used to prevent HTTP/2 RST frame flood DDOS attacks.. The default value is 30 s, setting zero or a negative value, disables flood protection.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_LIMITS_RST_FLOOD_WINDOW_DURATION

Duration

quarkus.management.idle-timeout

Http connection idle timeout

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT

Duration

30M

quarkus.management.body.handle-file-uploads

Whether the files sent using multipart/form-data will be stored locally.

If true, they will be stored in quarkus.http.body-handler.uploads-directory and will be made available via io.vertx.ext.web.RoutingContext.fileUploads(). Otherwise, the files sent using multipart/form-data will not be stored locally, and io.vertx.ext.web.RoutingContext.fileUploads() will always return an empty collection. Note that even with this option being set to false, the multipart/form-data requests will be accepted.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_BODY_HANDLE_FILE_UPLOADS

boolean

true

quarkus.management.body.uploads-directory

The directory where the files sent using multipart/form-data should be stored.

Either an absolute path or a path relative to the current directory of the application process.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_BODY_UPLOADS_DIRECTORY

string

${java.io.tmpdir}/uploads

quarkus.management.body.merge-form-attributes

Whether the form attributes should be added to the request parameters.

If true, the form attributes will be added to the request parameters; otherwise the form parameters will not be added to the request parameters

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_BODY_MERGE_FORM_ATTRIBUTES

boolean

true

quarkus.management.body.delete-uploaded-files-on-end

Whether the uploaded files should be removed after serving the request.

If true the uploaded files stored in quarkus.http.body-handler.uploads-directory will be removed after handling the request. Otherwise, the files will be left there forever.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_BODY_DELETE_UPLOADED_FILES_ON_END

boolean

true

quarkus.management.body.preallocate-body-buffer

Whether the body buffer should pre-allocated based on the Content-Length header value.

If true the body buffer is pre-allocated according to the size read from the Content-Length header. Otherwise, the body buffer is pre-allocated to 1KB, and is resized dynamically

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_BODY_PREALLOCATE_BODY_BUFFER

boolean

false

quarkus.management.body.multipart.file-content-types

A comma-separated list of ContentType to indicate whether a given multipart field should be handled as a file part. You can use this setting to force HTTP-based extensions to parse a message part as a file based on its content type. For now, this setting only works when using RESTEasy Reactive.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_BODY_MULTIPART_FILE_CONTENT_TYPES

list of string

quarkus.management.accept-backlog

The accept backlog, this is how many connections can be waiting to be accepted before connections start being rejected

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_ACCEPT_BACKLOG

int

-1

quarkus.management.domain-socket

Path to a unix domain socket

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_DOMAIN_SOCKET

string

/var/run/io.quarkus.management.socket

quarkus.management.domain-socket-enabled

Enable listening to host:port

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_DOMAIN_SOCKET_ENABLED

boolean

false

quarkus.management.proxy.use-proxy-protocol

Set whether the server should use the HA PROXY protocol when serving requests from behind a proxy. (see the PROXY Protocol). When set to true, the remote address returned will be the one from the actual connecting client. If it is set to false (default), the remote address returned will be the one from the proxy.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PROXY_USE_PROXY_PROTOCOL

boolean

false

quarkus.management.proxy.proxy-address-forwarding

If this is true then the address, scheme etc. will be set from headers forwarded by the proxy server, such as X-Forwarded-For. This should only be set if you are behind a proxy that sets these headers.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PROXY_PROXY_ADDRESS_FORWARDING

boolean

false

quarkus.management.proxy.allow-forwarded

If this is true and proxy address forwarding is enabled then the standard Forwarded header will be used. In case the not standard X-Forwarded-For header is enabled and detected on HTTP requests, the standard header has the precedence. Activating this together with quarkus.http.proxy.allow-x-forwarded has security implications as clients can forge requests with a forwarded header that is not overwritten by the proxy. Therefore, proxies should strip unexpected X-Forwarded or X-Forwarded-* headers from the client.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PROXY_ALLOW_FORWARDED

boolean

false

quarkus.management.proxy.allow-x-forwarded

If either this or allow-forwarded are true and proxy address forwarding is enabled then the not standard Forwarded header will be used. In case the standard Forwarded header is enabled and detected on HTTP requests, the standard header has the precedence. Activating this together with quarkus.http.proxy.allow-forwarded has security implications as clients can forge requests with a forwarded header that is not overwritten by the proxy. Therefore, proxies should strip unexpected X-Forwarded or X-Forwarded-* headers from the client.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PROXY_ALLOW_X_FORWARDED

boolean

quarkus.management.proxy.enable-forwarded-host

Enable override the received request’s host through a forwarded host header.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PROXY_ENABLE_FORWARDED_HOST

boolean

false

quarkus.management.proxy.forwarded-host-header

Configure the forwarded host header to be used if override enabled.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PROXY_FORWARDED_HOST_HEADER

string

X-Forwarded-Host

quarkus.management.proxy.enable-forwarded-prefix

Enable prefix the received request’s path with a forwarded prefix header.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PROXY_ENABLE_FORWARDED_PREFIX

boolean

false

quarkus.management.proxy.forwarded-prefix-header

Configure the forwarded prefix header to be used if prefixing enabled.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PROXY_FORWARDED_PREFIX_HEADER

string

X-Forwarded-Prefix

quarkus.management.proxy.enable-trusted-proxy-header

Adds the header X-Forwarded-Trusted-Proxy if the request is forwarded by a trusted proxy. The value is true if the request is forwarded by a trusted proxy, otherwise null.

The forwarded parser detects forgery attempts and if the incoming request contains this header, it will be removed from the request.

The X-Forwarded-Trusted-Proxy header is a custom header, not part of the standard Forwarded header.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PROXY_ENABLE_TRUSTED_PROXY_HEADER

boolean

false

quarkus.management.proxy.trusted-proxies

Configure the list of trusted proxy addresses. Received Forwarded, X-Forwarded or X-Forwarded-* headers from any other proxy address will be ignored. The trusted proxy address should be specified as the IP address (IPv4 or IPv6), hostname or Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation. Please note that Quarkus needs to perform DNS lookup for all hostnames during the request. For that reason, using hostnames is not recommended.

Examples of a socket address in the form of host or host:port:

127.0.0.1:8084
[0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]
[0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]:8084
[::]
localhost
localhost:8084

Examples of a CIDR notation:

::/128
::/0
127.0.0.0/8

Please bear in mind that IPv4 CIDR won’t match request sent from the IPv6 address and the other way around.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_PROXY_TRUSTED_PROXIES

list of TrustedProxyCheckPart

All proxy addresses are trusted

quarkus.management.auth.permission."permissions".enabled

Determines whether the entire permission set is enabled, or not. By default, if the permission set is defined, it is enabled.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_PERMISSION__PERMISSIONS__ENABLED

boolean

quarkus.management.auth.permission."permissions".policy

The HTTP policy that this permission set is linked to. There are three built-in policies: permit, deny and authenticated. Role based policies can be defined, and extensions can add their own policies.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_PERMISSION__PERMISSIONS__POLICY

string

required

quarkus.management.auth.permission."permissions".methods

The methods that this permission set applies to. If this is not set then they apply to all methods. Note that if a request matches any path from any permission set, but does not match the constraint due to the method not being listed then the request will be denied. Method specific permissions take precedence over matches that do not have any methods set. This means that for example if Quarkus is configured to allow GET and POST requests to /admin to and no other permissions are configured PUT requests to /admin will be denied.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_PERMISSION__PERMISSIONS__METHODS

list of string

quarkus.management.auth.permission."permissions".paths

The paths that this permission check applies to. If the path ends in /* then this is treated as a path prefix, otherwise it is treated as an exact match. Matches are done on a length basis, so the most specific path match takes precedence. If multiple permission sets match the same path then explicit methods matches take precedence over matches without methods set, otherwise the most restrictive permissions are applied.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_PERMISSION__PERMISSIONS__PATHS

list of string

quarkus.management.auth.permission."permissions".auth-mechanism

Path specific authentication mechanism which must be used to authenticate a user. It needs to match HttpCredentialTransport authentication scheme such as 'basic', 'bearer', 'form', etc.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_PERMISSION__PERMISSIONS__AUTH_MECHANISM

string

quarkus.management.auth.permission."permissions".shared

Indicates that this policy always applies to the matched paths in addition to the policy with a winning path. Avoid creating more than one shared policy to minimize the performance impact.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_PERMISSION__PERMISSIONS__SHARED

boolean

false

quarkus.management.auth.permission."permissions".applies-to

Whether permission check should be applied on all matching paths, or paths specific for the Jakarta REST resources.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_PERMISSION__PERMISSIONS__APPLIES_TO

allApply on all matching paths., jaxrsDeclares that a permission check must only be applied on the Jakarta REST request paths. Use this option to delay the permission check if an authentication mechanism is chosen with an annotation on the matching Jakarta REST endpoint. This option must be set if the following REST endpoint annotations are used\: - io.quarkus.oidc.Tenant annotation which selects an OIDC authentication mechanism with a tenant identifier - io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.security.annotation.BasicAuthentication which selects the Basic authentication mechanism - io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.security.annotation.FormAuthentication which selects the Form-based authentication mechanism - io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.security.annotation.MTLSAuthentication which selects the mTLS authentication mechanism - io.quarkus.security.webauthn.WebAuthn which selects the WebAuth authentication mechanism - io.quarkus.oidc.BearerTokenAuthentication which selects the OpenID Connect Bearer token authentication mechanism - io.quarkus.oidc.AuthorizationCodeFlow which selects the OpenID Connect Code authentication mechanism

allApply on all matching paths.

quarkus.management.auth.policy."role-policy".roles-allowed

The roles that are allowed to access resources protected by this policy. By default, access is allowed to any authenticated user.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_POLICY__ROLE_POLICY__ROLES_ALLOWED

list of string

**

quarkus.management.auth.policy."role-policy".roles."role-name"

Add roles granted to the SecurityIdentity based on the roles that the SecurityIdentity already have. For example, the Quarkus OIDC extension can map roles from the verified JWT access token, and you may want to remap them to a deployment specific roles.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_POLICY__ROLE_POLICY__ROLES__ROLE_NAME_

Map<String,List<String>>

quarkus.management.auth.policy."role-policy".permissions."role-name"

Permissions granted to the SecurityIdentity if this policy is applied successfully (the policy allows request to proceed) and the authenticated request has required role. For example, you can map permission perm1 with actions action1 and action2 to role admin by setting quarkus.http.auth.policy.role-policy1.permissions.admin=perm1:action1,perm1:action2 configuration property. Granted permissions are used for authorization with the @PermissionsAllowed annotation.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_POLICY__ROLE_POLICY__PERMISSIONS__ROLE_NAME_

Map<String,List<String>>

quarkus.management.auth.policy."role-policy".permission-class

Permissions granted by this policy will be created with a java.security.Permission implementation specified by this configuration property. The permission class must declare exactly one constructor that accepts permission name (String) or permission name and actions (String, String[]). Permission class must be registered for reflection if you run your application in a native mode.

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_AUTH_POLICY__ROLE_POLICY__PERMISSION_CLASS

string

io.quarkus.security.StringPermission

quarkus.management.header."header".path

The path this header should be applied

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_HEADER__HEADER__PATH

string

/*

quarkus.management.header."header".value

The value for this header configuration

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_HEADER__HEADER__VALUE

string

required

quarkus.management.header."header".methods

The HTTP methods for this header configuration

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_HEADER__HEADER__METHODS

list of string

quarkus.management.filter."filter".matches

A regular expression for the paths matching this configuration

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_FILTER__FILTER__MATCHES

string

required

quarkus.management.filter."filter".header."header-name"

Additional HTTP Headers always sent in the response

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_FILTER__FILTER__HEADER__HEADER_NAME_

Map<String,String>

quarkus.management.filter."filter".methods

The HTTP methods for this path configuration

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_FILTER__FILTER__METHODS

list of string

quarkus.management.filter."filter".order

Order in which this path config is applied. Higher priority takes precedence

Environment variable: QUARKUS_MANAGEMENT_FILTER__FILTER__ORDER

int

About the Duration format

To write duration values, use the standard java.time.Duration format. See the Duration#parse() Java API documentation for more information.

You can also use a simplified format, starting with a number:

If the value is only a number, it represents time in seconds.
If the value is a number followed by ms, it represents time in milliseconds.

In other cases, the simplified format is translated to the java.time.Duration format for parsing:

If the value is a number followed by h, m, or s, it is prefixed with PT.
If the value is a number followed by d, it is prefixed with P.

About the MemorySize format

A size configuration option recognizes strings in this format (shown as a regular expression): [0-9]+[KkMmGgTtPpEeZzYy]?.

If no suffix is given, assume bytes.

7. Running behind a reverse proxy

Quarkus can be accessed through proxies that generate headers (e.g. X-Forwarded-Host) to preserve information about the original request. Quarkus can be configured to automatically update information like protocol, host, port and URI to use the values from those headers.

Activating this feature can expose the server to security issues like information spoofing. Activate it only when running behind a reverse proxy.

To set up this feature for the management interface, include the following lines in src/main/resources/application.properties:

quarkus.management.proxy.proxy-address-forwarding=true

To constrain this behavior to the standard Forwarded header (and ignore X-Forwarded variants) by setting quarkus.management.proxy.allow-forwarded in src/main/resources/application.properties:

quarkus.management.proxy.allow-forwarded=true

Alternatively, you can prefer X-Forwarded-* headers using the following configuration in src/main/resources/application.properties (note allow-x-forwarded instead of allow-forwarded):

quarkus.management.proxy.proxy-address-forwarding=true
quarkus.management.proxy.allow-x-forwarded=true
quarkus.management.proxy.enable-forwarded-host=true
quarkus.management.proxy.enable-forwarded-prefix=true

Supported forwarding address headers are:

Forwarded
X-Forwarded-Proto
X-Forwarded-Host
X-Forwarded-Port
X-Forwarded-Ssl
X-Forwarded-Prefix

If both header variants (Forwarded and X-Forwarded-*) are enabled, the Forwarded header will have precedence.

Using both Forwarded and X-Forwarded headers can have security implications as it may allow clients to forge requests with a header that is not overwritten by the proxy.

Ensure that your proxy is configured to strip unexpected Forwarded or X-Forwarded-* headers from the client request.

8. Kubernetes

When Quarkus generates the Kubernetes metadata, it checks if the management interface is enabled and configures the probes accordingly. The resulting descriptor defines the main HTTP port (named http) and the management port (named management). Health probes (using HTTP actions) and Prometheus scrape URLs are configured using the management port.

KNative

Until KNative#8471 is resolved, you cannot use the management interface, as KNative does not support containers will multiple exposed ports.

9. Security

You can enable basic authentication using the following properties:

quarkus.management.enabled=true
# Enable basic authentication
quarkus.management.auth.basic=true
# Require all access to /q/* to be authenticated
quarkus.management.auth.permission.all.policy=authenticated
quarkus.management.auth.permission.all.paths=/q/*

You can also use different permissions for different paths or use role bindings:

quarkus.management.enabled=true
# Enable basic authentication
quarkus.management.auth.basic=true
# Configure a management policy if needed, here the policy `management-policy` requires users to have the role `management`.
quarkus.management.auth.policy.management-policy.roles-allowed=management

# For each endpoint you can configure the permissions
# Health used the management-policy (so requires authentication + the `management` role)
quarkus.management.auth.permission.health.paths=/q/health/*
quarkus.management.auth.permission.health.policy=management-policy

# Metrics just requires authentication
quarkus.management.auth.permission.metrics.paths=/q/metrics/*
quarkus.management.auth.permission.metrics.policy=authenticated

More details about Basic authentication in Quarkus can be found in the Basic authentication guide.

10. Injecting management URL in tests

When testing your application, you can inject the management URL using the @TestHTTPResource annotation:

@TestHTTPResource(value="/management", management=true)
URL management;

The management attribute is set to true to indicate that the injected URL is for the management interface. The context-root is automatically added. Thus, in the previous example, the injected URL is http://localhost:9001/q/management.

@TestHTTPResource is particularly useful when setting the management test-port to 0, which indicates that the system will assign a random port to the management interface:

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quarkus.management.test-port=0
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1. Enabling the management interface
2. Configure the host, port and scheme
3. Configure the root path
4. Create a management endpoint in an extension
5. Exposing an endpoint on the management interface (as an application)
6. Management Interface Configuration
7. Running behind a reverse proxy
8. Kubernetes
9. Security
10. Injecting management URL in tests

Management interface reference

1. Enabling the management interface

2. Configure the host, port and scheme

3. Configure the root path

4. Create a management endpoint in an extension

5. Exposing an endpoint on the management interface (as an application)

6. Management Interface Configuration

7. Running behind a reverse proxy

8. Kubernetes

9. Security

10. Injecting management URL in tests

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