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 Tested on Apache 2.2 and Apache 2.4.
 
+ If your server-status page is secured by http auth, add the credentials to the scrape URL following this example:
+ 
+```
+http://user:password@localhost/server-status?auto
+```
+
 # Using Docker
 
 ## Build