diff --git a/docs/widgets/services/gluetun.md b/docs/widgets/services/gluetun.md
index 7f1f6921ca5..44775b158b1 100644
--- a/docs/widgets/services/gluetun.md
+++ b/docs/widgets/services/gluetun.md
@@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ Learn more about [Gluetun](https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun).
 
 Allowed fields: `["public_ip", "region", "country"]`.
 
+To setup authentication, follow [the official Gluetun documentation](https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/advanced/control-server.md#authentication).
+
 ```yaml
 widget:
   type: gluetun
   url: http://gluetun.host.or.ip:port
+  key: gluetunkey # Not required if /v1/publicip/ip endpoint is configured with `auth = none`
 ```
diff --git a/src/widgets/gluetun/widget.js b/src/widgets/gluetun/widget.js
index 013ea1cadd0..91c7d1ed51c 100644
--- a/src/widgets/gluetun/widget.js
+++ b/src/widgets/gluetun/widget.js
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-import genericProxyHandler from "utils/proxy/handlers/generic";
+import credentialedProxyHandler from "utils/proxy/handlers/credentialed";
 
 const widget = {
   api: "{url}/v1/{endpoint}",
-  proxyHandler: genericProxyHandler,
+  proxyHandler: credentialedProxyHandler,
 
   mappings: {
     ip: {