grafana-email

Connects to Grafana and sends an e-mail with attached graphs.

Warning! For grafana-email to work, you need the grafana-image-renderer plugin (details also here: Image Rendering). I'm using the docker image grafana/grafana-image-renderer for this. See below the example under Grafana configuration on docker swarm, with grafana-image-renderer

Supported environment variables

Example panel url:

http://grafana1:3001/render/d-solo/gV6maGVZz/e-mail-reports?orgId=1&from=1562006810978&to=1562078810980&panelId=2&width=1000&height=500&tz=Europe%2FOslo

You can see the panel url by selecting Share in a panel menu (click on its name) -> Link -> Direct link rendered image

Variable	Default	Mandatory	Description
GRAFANA_TOKEN	-	YES	the authentication token for Grafana
GRAFANA_DASHBOARD	-	YES	the short code for the dashboard (example: gV6maGVZz/e-mail-reports)
SMTP_FROM	-	YES	the e-mail address of the sender
SMTP_TO	-	YES	the e-mail address of the receipient. Alternatively, a space separated list of recipients.
SMTP_PORT	25	NO	the port for the SMTP host
SMTP_HOST	localhost	NO	the SMTP host
SMTP_SUBJECT	Grafana Email Report	NO	the e-mail subject
PANEL_IDS	1	NO	comma separated list with the IDs of the panels (example: 2)
PANEL_ORG_ID	1	NO	the Grafana organization (in example: 1)
PANEL_FROM	now-1d	NO	the start of the panel time interval (example: 1562006810978)
PANEL_TO	now	NO	the end of the panel time interval (example: 1562078810980)
PANEL_WIDTH	500	NO	the width of the image in pixels (example: 1000)
PANEL_HEIGHT	250	NO	the height of the image in pixels (example: 500)
PANEL_THEME	light	NO	one of dark, light
GRAFANA_HOST	grafana	NO	the hostname or FQDN of the Grafana host (example: grafana1)
GRAFANA_PORT	3000	NO	the port for the Grafana host (example: 3001)
GELF_PORT	12201	NO	if GELF_HOST is configured (see below), use this UDP port for logging
LOGLEVEL	INFO	NO	Logging Level
GELF_HOST	-	NO	the GELF capable host, for logging
SMTP_USER	-	NO	fill this out, if your SMTP server requires authentication
SMTP_PASSWORD	-	NO	fill this out, if your SMTP server requires authentication
PANEL_TZ	-	NO	the timezone, needed for timestamp PANEL_FROM or PANEL_TO (example: Europe/Oslo)
PANEL_TIMEOUT	-	NO	the timeout for Grafana to generate the panel
GRAFANA_HEADER_HOST	-	NO	useful if the hostname of the Grafana host/container is set to something than the FQDN in Grafana
GRAFANA_URL_PARAMS	-	NO	add additional URL params (example: var-RequestHost=alex&var-Filters=OriginStatus|!%3D|404)
GRAFANA_SSL_VERIFY	TRUE	NO	set to FALSE to ignore SSL certificate errors
GRAFANA_TIMEOUT	60	NO	the number of seconds to wait for the connection to Grafana

Examples

Bash

docker run -it --rm --name=grafana-email \
  -e GRAFANA_TOKEN='MyAmazingTokenFromGrafana=' \
  -e GRAFANA_DASHBOARD="gV6maGVZz/e-mail-reports" \
  -e SMTP_FROM="test-docker@example.com" \
  -e SMTP_TO="grafana@example.com" \
  -e SMTP_HOST="10.0.10.1" \
  -e PANEL_IDS="2,5,6" \
  -e PANEL_FROM="now-6h" \
  -e PANEL_THEME="light" \
  -e PANEL_TZ="Europe/Berlin" \
  -e GRAFANA_HOST="grafana1" \
  -e GRAFANA_PORT="3001" \
  -e GELF_HOST="graylog" \
  -e GRAFANA_HEADER_HOST="grafana.example.com" \
  -e LOGLEVEL="DEBUG" \
  registry.gitlab.com/ix.ai/grafana-email:latest

systemd example:

Place the files under /etc/systemd/system and run sudo systemctl daemon-reload. You can test it by running sudo systemctl start grafana-email.service --now.

grafana-email.service

[Unit]
Description=Send an e-mail with Grafana graphs
After=docker.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=docker run -it --rm --name=grafana-email \
-e GRAFANA_TOKEN='MyAmazingTokenFromGrafana=' \
-e GRAFANA_DASHBOARD="gV6maGVZz/e-mail-reports" \
-e SMTP_FROM="test-docker@example.com" \
-e SMTP_TO="grafana@example.com" \
-e SMTP_HOST="10.0.10.1" \
-e PANEL_IDS="2,5,6" \
-e PANEL_FROM="now-6h" \
-e PANEL_THEME="light" \
-e PANEL_TZ="Europe/Berlin" \
-e GRAFANA_HOST="grafana1" \
-e GRAFANA_PORT="3001" \
-e GELF_HOST="graylog" \
-e GRAFANA_HEADER_HOST="grafana.example.com" \
-e LOGLEVEL="DEBUG" \
registry.gitlab.com/ix.ai/grafana-email:latest

grafana-email.timer

[Unit]
Description=Timer for grafana-email.service daily at 06:59

[Timer]
OnCalendar=06:59

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Grafana configuration on docker swarm, with grafana-image-renderer

version: '3.7'

services:
  grafana:
    image: grafana/grafana:latest
    environment:
      GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS: grafana-image-renderer
      GF_LOG_FILTERS: rendering:debug
      GF_RENDERING_SERVER_URL: http://grafana-image-renderer:8081/render
      GF_RENDERING_CALLBACK_URL: http://grafana:3000/
  grafana-image-renderer:
    image: grafana/grafana-image-renderer:latest
    networks:
      - grafana-email
    environment:
      ENABLE_METRICS: 'true'
      LOG_LEVEL: 'info'

Tags and Arch

Starting with version v0.3.0, the images are multi-arch, with builds for amd64, arm64 and armv7. Version v0.4.0 also adds 386 build.

• vN.N.N - for example v0.3.0
• latest - always pointing to the latest version
• dev-master - the last build on the master branch

Resources:

• GitLab: https://gitlab.com/ix.ai/grafana-email
• GitHub: https://github.com/ix-ai/grafana-email
• GitLab Registry: https://gitlab.com/ix.ai/grafana-email/container_registry
• Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/ixdotai/grafana-email