diff --git a/salt/common/nginx/nginx.conf.so-eval b/salt/common/nginx/nginx.conf.so-eval
index 5c924110c..a4a7e05e5 100644
--- a/salt/common/nginx/nginx.conf.so-eval
+++ b/salt/common/nginx/nginx.conf.so-eval
@@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ http {
     #    }
 
         location /grafana/ {
-          auth_basic            "Security Onion";
-          auth_basic_user_file  /opt/so/conf/nginx/.htpasswd;
 	  rewrite /grafana/(.*) /$1 break;
           proxy_pass http://{{ masterip }}:3000/;
           proxy_read_timeout    90;
diff --git a/salt/common/nginx/nginx.conf.so-master b/salt/common/nginx/nginx.conf.so-master
index 7f922d72a..c544857a0 100644
--- a/salt/common/nginx/nginx.conf.so-master
+++ b/salt/common/nginx/nginx.conf.so-master
@@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ http {
     #    }
 
         location /grafana/ {
-          auth_basic            "Security Onion";
-          auth_basic_user_file  /opt/so/conf/nginx/.htpasswd;
 	  rewrite /grafana/(.*) /$1 break;
           proxy_pass http://{{ masterip }}:3000/;
           proxy_read_timeout    90;