Using Basic authentication is not preferred and we would much rather have the option to use API keys for authentication. We understand there is the option to secure the credentials, but managing usernames/passwords is not preferable to API keys. Please let us know where this is on the roadmap. On a side note, not sure if this is just a coincidence, but the same limitation exists for authenticating to the Orion API, and there have been requests for this to change to API keys as well.