[7] Alerting

The Alerts function allows a notification to be sent when the data in a visualization has met the predefined settings.

If alerts are required to be sent via email, the following properties must be configured first in the Panopticon.properties file.


Property	Alert
Attribute	alert.creation.only.by.administrators
Description	Enable or disable whether only Administrators can create alerts.
Default Value	false
Property	Alert
Attribute	email.address
Description	The email address where the alert will be sent from.
Default Value
Property	Alert
Attribute	email.password
Description	The email password, if available. NOTE: When using a Gmail account, you must use an app password to authenticate with the Gmail SMTP server. See Sign in with app passwords for more information.
Default Value
Property	Email
Attribute	email.host
Description	The host name used by the email server.
Default Value
Property	Email
Attribute	email.port
Description	The port number used by the email server.
Default Value

Otherwise, when trying to enable an alert, this error will be displayed:

Save the updated file and restart Tomcat.