Asked by: Honesta Indaburu
Asked in category: technology and computing, email
Last Updated: 21st May 2024

How do I create a Grafana alert?

Create an Alert in Grafana
Click on aEdit.a Select the panel from which you wish to create an alarm. Click on aEdit.a This will open the panel for monitoring CPU. Click on the aAlerta tab, and then click on aCreate Alarm.a This will open a form to configure alert.



This is how to send an email message to Grafana.

Create your channel using the following:

  1. Enter a name like Grafana Dashboard Alerts in the Name field.
  2. Enter Email in the type field
  3. Enter the email address to which you wish to send alerts in the Email addresses section.
  4. To save this channel, click the Save button

How do I receive Prometheus alerts, besides? Prometheus alert setup steps are listed below:

  1. Configure and set up AlertManager
  2. Configure Prometheus' config file so that it can communicate with the AlertManager.
  3. Configure Prometheus server configuration to define alert rules.
  4. AlertManager allows you to define an alert mechanism and send alerts via Slack or email.

Another question was: How can I receive email alerts from Kibana?

Login to your Kibana Cloud instance and go to Management. Click Watcher. Here are all the watchers that have been configured. We want to build our custom watch using JSON. Click the dropdown and choose Advanced Watch.

Install the watcher

  1. Every minute, trigger.
  2. Triggers for more than 25 errors
  3. Send an email

How can I enable SMTP Grafana?

Setup SSMTP in Grafana

  1. Go to the "conf" directory for your Grafana distribution.
  2. Your configuration file should be opened (as defaults was used for the setup, so I'm using defaults. ini"). Navigate to SMTP/Emailing settings, and update your SMTP information. Our fake-SMTP server is now running on localhost. My "defaults."