Send emails from Aiven for Grafana®¶
Use the Aiven API or the Aiven client to configure the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server settings and send the following emails from Aiven for Grafana®: invite emails, reset password emails, and alert messages.
What you need¶
Aiven client installed
Aiven for Grafana service created
SMTP server IP or hostname
SMTP server port
Username for authentication (if authentication is in use - highly recommended)
Password for authentication
Sender email address (i.e., email address shown in “From” field)
Sender name (optional)
Configure the SMTP server for Grafana¶
To configure the Aiven for Grafana service:
Open the Aiven client, and log in:
avn user login <you@example.com> --token
configure the service using your own SMTP values:
avn service update --project yourprojectname yourservicename \ -c smtp_server.host=smtp.example.com \ -c smtp_server.port=465 \ -c smtp_server.username=emailsenderuser \ -c smtp_server.password=emailsenderpass \ -c smtp_server.from_address="grafana@yourcompany.com"
(optionally) Review all available custom options, and configure as needed:
avn service types -v
You have now set up your Aiven for Grafana to send emails.