Setup Grafana email address for alerts

There are two alerts configured:

Alert when CPU exceeds 85%

Alert when memory drops below 21%

To update Grafana email address for alerts, do the following:

  1. Connect to Grafana using a browser (see Figure 10 below for login screen) http://:3000

  • Default credentials are admin/Cisco123 (changing user/password can be found in this section)
  1. Go to the hamburger menu at the top left, and then select Alerting (see Figure 11 below)

  2. Under Alerting, select Contact points and then on the ‘pencil’ icon to the right of Dashboard Admin (see Figure 12 below)

  3. Edit the ‘Addresses’ field and then click Save contact point (see Figure 13 below)

To change default credentials do the following:

  1. Under the same hamburger menu mentioned in step 2 above, select Administration

  2. From the Administration menu select Users

  3. In this screen you can create a new user as well as edit the default user by clicking on it in the list