diff --git a/public/app/core/services/backend_srv.ts b/public/app/core/services/backend_srv.ts
index 8b7ca518e8b..d582b6a3b18 100644
--- a/public/app/core/services/backend_srv.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/services/backend_srv.ts
@@ -170,7 +170,9 @@ export class BackendSrv {
 
     return this.$http(options)
       .then(response => {
-        appEvents.emit('ds-request-response', response);
+        if (!options.silent) {
+          appEvents.emit('ds-request-response', response);
+        }
         return response;
       })
       .catch(err => {
@@ -201,8 +203,9 @@ export class BackendSrv {
         if (err.data && !err.data.message && _.isString(err.data.error)) {
           err.data.message = err.data.error;
         }
-
-        appEvents.emit('ds-request-error', err);
+        if (!options.silent) {
+          appEvents.emit('ds-request-error', err);
+        }
         throw err;
       })
       .finally(() => {
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts
index 6cf6c713a90..3eceaf6c622 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts
@@ -81,6 +81,20 @@ export class PrometheusDatasource {
     return this.backendSrv.datasourceRequest(options);
   }
 
+  // Use this for tab completion features, wont publish response to other components
+  helperRequest(url) {
+    const options: any = {
+      url: this.url + url,
+      silent: true,
+    };
+
+    if (this.basicAuth || this.withCredentials) {
+      options.withCredentials = true;
+    }
+
+    return this.backendSrv.datasourceRequest(options);
+  }
+
   interpolateQueryExpr(value, variable, defaultFormatFn) {
     // if no multi or include all do not regexEscape
     if (!variable.multi && !variable.includeAll) {
@@ -229,7 +243,7 @@ export class PrometheusDatasource {
       );
     }
 
-    return this._request('GET', url).then(result => {
+    return this.helperRequest(url).then(result => {
       this.metricsNameCache = {
         data: result.data.data,
         expire: Date.now() + 60 * 1000,
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/metric_find_query.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/metric_find_query.ts
index b27f1cd50af..c58f5c097b9 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/metric_find_query.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/metric_find_query.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export default class PrometheusMetricFindQuery {
       // return label values globally
       url = '/api/v1/label/' + label + '/values';
 
-      return this.datasource._request('GET', url).then(function(result) {
+      return this.datasource.helperRequest(url).then(function(result) {
         return _.map(result.data.data, function(value) {
           return { text: value };
         });
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ export default class PrometheusMetricFindQuery {
       var end = this.datasource.getPrometheusTime(this.range.to, true);
       url = '/api/v1/series?match[]=' + encodeURIComponent(metric) + '&start=' + start + '&end=' + end;
 
-      return this.datasource._request('GET', url).then(function(result) {
+      return this.datasource.helperRequest(url).then(function(result) {
         var _labels = _.map(result.data.data, function(metric) {
           return metric[label] || '';
         }).filter(function(label) {
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ export default class PrometheusMetricFindQuery {
   metricNameQuery(metricFilterPattern) {
     var url = '/api/v1/label/__name__/values';
 
-    return this.datasource._request('GET', url).then(function(result) {
+    return this.datasource.helperRequest(url).then(function(result) {
       return _.chain(result.data.data)
         .filter(function(metricName) {
           var r = new RegExp(metricFilterPattern);
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ export default class PrometheusMetricFindQuery {
     var url = '/api/v1/series?match[]=' + encodeURIComponent(query) + '&start=' + start + '&end=' + end;
 
     var self = this;
-    return this.datasource._request('GET', url).then(function(result) {
+    return this.datasource.helperRequest(url).then(function(result) {
       return _.map(result.data.data, function(metric) {
         return {
           text: self.datasource.getOriginalMetricName(metric),