Can auth.conf (or equivalent) be used for the PuppetDB API?

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We're using PuppetDB behind a loadbalanced address, and I'd like to let the loadbalancers use the status APIs for the keepalive check to more intelligently monitor the status of the service.

Essentially this means calling this URL per puppetdb:
https://[IP Address]:8081/status/v1/simple

The problem is that this needs certificate authentication that we are not able to implement on the LBs. Is there a way of allowing non-authenticated access to this path, in the same way I could for puppetserver with auth.conf?