E-mail notifications

SUSE Observability Self-hosted

SaaS users of SUSE Observability can use E-mail notifications without extra configuration. This guide is only applicable for self-hosted SUSE Observability installations, that are planning to use the E-mail notification channel.

Before you can use the E-mail notification channel in SUSE Observability, you first need to follow the following steps:

Configure SUSE Observability with the SMTP configuration

SUSE Observability needs to be configured with credentials to connect to the SMTP server. You can do this by adding the following to the values.yaml file of your SUSE Observability installation:

stackstate:
  email:
    enabled: true
    sender: "<[e-mail]>"
    server:
      host: "<smtp.example.com>"
      auth:
        username: "<user name>"
        password: "<user password>"

This will use port 587 on the SMTP server and uses the STARTTLS command to establish a secure connection. These are all the other options that can be customized:

stackstate:
  email:
    additionalProperties: 
      # Add needed Java email properties for your mail server (use string values), defaults are: 
      "mail.smtp.auth": "true"
      "mail.smtp.starttls.enable": "true"
    server:
      protocol: smtp
      port: 587

Using an external secret

When the username and password cannot be provided in the values but should come from an external secret, follow these steps