Difference between revisions of "Setup SMTP in Grafana"
| (3 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 14: | Line 14: | ||
Just go to <code>https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps</code> and set <code>Allow less secure apps</code> to <code>ON</code>. | Just go to <code>https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps</code> and set <code>Allow less secure apps</code> to <code>ON</code>. | ||
| + | <br>We need to do this to our Gmail account to make it can receive connections from external programs. | ||
| + | <br>If we use corporate SMTP, just contact our IT support to do the same. | ||
=== Step 2 : Update and install SSMTP === | === Step 2 : Update and install SSMTP === | ||
| Line 31: | Line 33: | ||
FromLineOverride=YES | FromLineOverride=YES | ||
AuthUser=gejoreuy@gmail.com | AuthUser=gejoreuy@gmail.com | ||
| − | AuthPass= | + | AuthPass=MyPassword |
UseTLS=YES | UseTLS=YES | ||
UseSTARTTLS=YES | UseSTARTTLS=YES | ||
| − | In our example, we are using the Gmail account | + | In our example, we are using the Gmail account <code>gejoreuy@gmail.com</code> with password <code>MyPassword</code>. |
| + | |||
| + | === Step 4 : Test SMTP Server === | ||
| + | |||
| + | Use the following command to send an email using the command-line. | ||
| + | |||
| + | root@gejoreuy:~# echo "E-Mail using the command-line" | ssmtp gejoreuy@gmail.com | ||
| + | |||
| + | Check our inbox for the test message that we just sent. | ||
| + | <br>If the test was successfully, we may use our Grafana with SMTP. | ||
Latest revision as of 08:24, 9 March 2021
Contents
Introduction
Grafana is a tools for visualisation dashboard monitoring which work together with various datasource.
In its use, we'll need SMTP activated to do some functionality like email alerting, notification, or invitation request.
Assumptions
In this page, we assumed that we already know about Grafana and have it run in a server.
In our example, we are going to use Google Gmail as SMTP server.
Step by Step
Step 1 : Prepare Gmail Account
Just go to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and set Allow less secure apps to ON.
We need to do this to our Gmail account to make it can receive connections from external programs.
If we use corporate SMTP, just contact our IT support to do the same.
Step 2 : Update and install SSMTP
We'll update our Grafana server and install SMTP on it.
root@gejoreuy:~# sudo apt-get update root@gejoreuy:~# sudo apt-get install ssmtp
Step 3 : Edit SSMTP Configuration
Go to /etc/ssmtp/ directory and edit ssmtp.conf file like below configuration.
root@gejoreuy:~# vi /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf root=gejoreuy@gmail.com mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587 FromLineOverride=YES AuthUser=gejoreuy@gmail.com AuthPass=MyPassword UseTLS=YES UseSTARTTLS=YES
In our example, we are using the Gmail account gejoreuy@gmail.com with password MyPassword.
Step 4 : Test SMTP Server
Use the following command to send an email using the command-line.
root@gejoreuy:~# echo "E-Mail using the command-line" | ssmtp gejoreuy@gmail.com
Check our inbox for the test message that we just sent.
If the test was successfully, we may use our Grafana with SMTP.
