Setup SMTP in Grafana

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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

1. Prepare our Gmail account to allow less secure apps option.
Just go to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and set allow less secure apps to ON.

2. Update and install SSMTP in Grafana server.

# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install ssmtp