How to create a Grafana Email Alert notification for a prometheus metric?

Question

I have a Prometheus data source, that has a counter metric for failed requests, I want to send email alert notifications whenever the metric is non-zero?

I am using prom-client to generate the metrics

Answer 1

Steps to set up a Email Notification in Grafana.

1. Understand how the Grafana is configured here.
2. Configure SMTP settings in Grafana to enable it to send emails.Local SMTP can be set up to test here.
3. Set up Notification Alerts by following this.
4. Create alerts