# Heartbeat to support m2m token auth

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-support-m2m-token-auth/371426>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [December 3, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-support-m2m-token-auth/371426 "2024-12-03T21:40:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![OK\_SCS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@OK\_SCS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/OK_SCS)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-support-m2m-token-auth/371426/1 "2024-12-03T21:40:03Z")

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Is there a plans to add M2M token auth? Most of our REST services migrated to this type of authentcation, so we need possibility to monitor them.  
it would be good if will be such option to configure token provide url, token expiry time and so on ...