# 4.0 Dashboard Alerts With the Custom Dashboards configured you can now choose to configure email alerts based upon conditions met. Alerts are only available for Visualisations of type Graph. Custom Dashboards provide live information, but for some you will want to receive notifications when certain criteria has been reached. Two elements require configuring, email and the alert itself: Email and Alert # 4.1 Grafana Email Configuration ## What Use the below method to configure email in Grafana ## When/Why Email must be configured in advance of creating any Alerts. ## How At this time, it involves editing a Grafana ini file.
/usr/local/etc/filewave/grafana/conf/filewave.ini |
Do not edit entries already created within this file. |
filewave server restart |
Alerts are only available for Visualisations of type Graph
## When/Why Leverage your Web Admin Custom Dashboard elements to build Alerts. ## How Select your chosen Graph and from the drop down choose 'Edit':  Select the Notification icon and configure the conditions as desired. In this example if the total device count exceeds 20 devices, a notification will be triggered.  Add any message as you see fit.