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 For more information on Monasca see the [Monasca documentation](https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Monasca)
 
-When combined with Grafana Keystone authentication this datasource supports using login credentials to authenticate queries.
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+When combined with Grafana Keystone authentication this datasource supports using login credentials to authenticate queries.
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+Without the Grafana Keystone auth, this datasource can be used by inserting a keystone token into the datasource.  To get a keystone token download the python-openstackclient, source credentials and run `openstack token issue`.