Setup SMTP in Grafana

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.

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.