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+## Accessing Prometheus metrics provided by Insights Operator
+
+It is possible to read Prometheus metrics provided by Insights Operator. For example if the IO runs locally, the following command migth be used:
+
+``
+curl --cert k8s.crt --key k8s.key -k https://localhost:8443/metrics
+``
+
+### Certificate and key needed to access Prometheus metrics
+
+Certificate and key are required to access Prometheus metrics (instead 404 Forbidden is returned). It is possible to generate these two files from Kubernetes config file. Certificate is stored in `users/admin/client-cerfificate-data` and key in `users/admin/client-key-data`. Please note that these values are encoded by using Base64 encoding, so it is needed to decode them, for example by `base64 -d`.
+
+There's a tool named `gen_cert_key.py` that can be used to automatically generate both files. It is stored in `tools` subdirectory.
+
+#### Usage:
+
+```
+gen_cert_file.py kubeconfig.yaml
+```
diff --git a/tools/gen_cert_key.py b/tools/gen_cert_key.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+"""Script to generate certificate and user key from provided Kubernetes configuration file.
+
+Generated files k8s.crt and k8s.key might be used to access Insights Operator
+REST API endpoints and Prometheus metrics as well.
+"""
+
+# Copyright © 2020 Red Hat
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import yaml
+import base64
+import sys
+
+
+def get_data_for_user(payload, user_name):
+    """
+    Try to retrieve data for given user.
+
+    KeyError will be raised in case of improper payload format.
+    """
+    users = payload["users"]
+    for user_data in users:
+        if "name" in user_data and user_data["name"] == user_name:
+            return user_data
+
+
+def get_value_assigned_to_user(user_data, key):
+    """
+    Try to retrieve (attribute) value assigned to an user.
+
+    In practise it will be certificate or key. KeyError will be raised in case
+    of improper payload format or when the attribute for given key does not
+    exist.
+    """
+    d = user_data["user"]
+    return d[key]
+
+
+def decode(b64):
+    """
+    Decode given attribute encoded by using Base64 encoding.
+
+    The result is returned as regular Python string. Note that TypeError might
+    be thrown when the input data are not encoded properly.
+    """
+    barray = base64.b64decode(b64)
+    return barray.decode('ascii')
+
+
+def generate_cert_and_key_files(input_file):
+    """Generate file with certificate and user key from k8s configuration file."""
+    with open(input_file) as f:
+        payload = yaml.load(f)
+        if payload is not None:
+            user_data = get_data_for_user(payload, "admin")
+            encoded_certificate = get_value_assigned_to_user(user_data, "client-certificate-data")
+            encoded_key = get_value_assigned_to_user(user_data, "client-key-data")
+            decoded_certificate = decode(encoded_certificate)
+            decoded_key = decode(encoded_key)
+            with open("k8s.crt", "w") as cert:
+                cert.write(decoded_certificate)
+            with open("k8s.key", "w") as cert:
+                cert.write(decoded_key)
+
+
+def main():
+    """Entry point to this script."""
+    if len(sys.argv) <= 1:
+        print("Usage: gen_cert_file.py kubeconfig.yaml")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    generate_cert_and_key_files(sys.argv[1])
+
+
+# Common Python's black magic
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()