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getting reports of failed backup/exports via email (and presentation)

  • 24 November 2022
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Good day folks, my name is Alessandro and I’m a legacy (and old) system and backup admin who recently started working with K10/Openshift.

In this topic I’d like to ask the community if there is a way to tell K10 “send me one email every morning, containing the list of iussues occurred yesterday with the protection of namespaces/project.”

Support suggested me to follow this guide

https://docs.kasten.io/latest/operating/monitoring.html?highlight=grafana#grafana-alerts

and I did it, but I only get unuseful mails with the “backup ended overall” test in the body.

I googled a lot and I’ve found this article

https://24xsiempre.com/en/set-up-email-alerts-kasten-k10/

If I understand well, they decided to bypass grafana (which is kind of an overkill just to get an email...) installed a second prometheus and managed to get some email. 

Does anyone struggled with the same task I’m working on? Potentially trying something like in the previous post?
Thanks in advance

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Best answer by FRubens 18 January 2023, 14:38

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@tinto.1970 I just saw your post.

From what I see, You are trying to get alerts for the failed backups in your email.

I think it is just matter of tweaking the alert rules in grafana .

You probably have only the example alert rule configured from the docs.
I can help you with the more promql queries which can be used to configured alert rules.

LMK if you are still on it.

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In this topic I’d like to ask the community if there is a way to tell K10 “send me one email every morning, containing the list of iussues occurred yesterday with the protection of namespaces/project.”

 

Also, we don’t have a way to send daily reports over the email for time being.

 

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I’ve solved this way: 

 

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Hello @tinto.1970 

Hope all is well, there is a document where we provide how to setup alerts/rules on K10 grafana to be sent by email daily. 

Please take a look, other alerts can be created based in different K10 prometheus metrics.

https://kb.kasten.io/knowledge/setting-up-smtp-and-alerting-with-k10-grafana

Regards
Fernando R.

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thanks Fernando, this looks fine. I’ve tried to configure alerts with Grafana a couple of months ago but I did not suceed, because I don’t know Grafana at all.

I will try again following this more detailed (and pretty recent I guess) guide, thanks!

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