I am not able to send test email notification. I am getting this error on dashboard
Failed to send test alert.: failed to send notification to email addresses: firstname.lastname@email: dial tcp 172.217.194.26:587: i/o timeout
The SMTP configurations are as follows :
#################################### SMTP / Emailing ##########################
[smtp]
enabled = true
host = smtp.google.com:587
user = sender@email
If the password contains # or ; you have to wrap it with triple quotes. Ex “”“#password;”“”
password = ********
cert_file =
key_file =
skip_verify = false
from_address = sender@email
from_name = Grafana
EHLO identity in SMTP dialog (defaults to instance_name)
;ehlo_identity = dashboard.example
SMTP startTLS policy (defaults to ‘OpportunisticStartTLS’)
startTLS_policy = NoStartTLS
The logs are as follows
logger=alerting.notifier.email t=2023-01-23T14:54:29.718479024+05:30 level=error msg=“Missing receiver”
logger=alerting.notifier.email t=2023-01-23T14:54:29.718550453+05:30 level=error msg=“Missing group labels”
logger=alerting.notifier.email t=2023-01-23T14:54:30.15174509+05:30 level=error msg=“Missing receiver”
logger=alerting.notifier.email t=2023-01-23T14:54:30.151832541+05:30 level=error msg=“Missing group labels”
logger=context userId=1 orgId=1 uname=admin t=2023-01-23T14:54:39.719832418+05:30 level=info msg=“Request Completed” method=POST path=/api/alertmanager/grafana/config/api/v1/receivers/test status=207 remote_addr=[::1] time_ms=10008 duration=10.00812796s size=485 referer=“http ://community.grafana.com/alerting/notifications/receivers/firstname%20lastname/edit?alertmanager=grafana” handler=/api/alertmanager/grafana/config/api/v1/receivers/test
logger=context userId=1 orgId=1 uname=admin t=2023-01-23T14:54:40.15271677+05:30 level=info msg=“Request Completed” method=POST path=/api/alertmanager/grafana/config/api/v1/receivers/test status=207 remote_addr=[::1] time_ms=10009 duration=10.00938644s size=485 referer=“http://grafana.staged-by-discourse.com/alerting/notifications/receivers/firstname%20lastname/edit?alertmanager=grafana” handler=/api/alertmanager/grafana/config/api/v1/receivers/test