Setup Alert Notification Channels in Grafana

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In this blog, We will setup step by step grafana email and slack Alert Notification Channels to send the alerts via a grafana.

Supported Alert Notification Channels

Email
Slack
Kafka
Google Hangouts Chat
Microsoft Teams
etc.

so In this blog, we will set up the Email and Slack notification channel only to send alerts.

Setup Email Alerts Notification Channel

To set up email alerts in grafana, so we need to configure the SMTP settings in the grafana.ini file which is stored in /etc/grafana/grafana.ini

1. ssh to the grafana node

ssh hostname@ip

2. Edit the grafana configuration

sudo vim /etc/grafana/grafana.ini

3. Change the SMTP configuration and save it.

######### SMTP / Emailing #######
[smtp]
;enabled = true
;host = smtp-mail.outlook.com:587 #Port 25(Without TLS/SSL) 
;user = Your_Email_Address@gmail.com
# If the password contains # or ; you have to wrap it with triple quotes. Ex """#password;"""
;password = """Your_Password"""
;cert_file =
;key_file =
;skip_verify = true
;from_address = Your_Email_Address@gmail.com
;from_name = Your_Name
# EHLO identity in SMTP dialog (defaults to instance_name)
;ehlo_identity =

[emails]
;welcome_email_on_sign_up = false
;templates_pattern = emails/*.html

4. Restart the grafana server

sudo service grafana-server restart

5. Open the grafana app and go to the alert icon and click notification channels.

6. Click on the new channel

7. Select type email and Add the email notification configuration details

8. Save

Now you have successfully set up the email notification channel.

Setup Slack Alerts

1. Go to the https://api.slack.com/apps

2. Click on

3. Click on Create App

4. Click on Incoming Webhook

5. Activate

6. Click on

7. Select the slack channel and click on allow.

8. Copy the webhook URL

9. Open the grafana app and go to the alert icon and click notification channels.

10. Click on the new channel

11. Select type slack and then insert the webhook URL

12. Click on Save

Now you have successfully set up the slack notification channel.

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